"Radio Newsreel"
"This is London Calling: The British Broadcasting Corporation presents ‘Radio Newsreel’." That announcement is broadcast six times every 24 hours, with special editions at the weekend, and brings to listeners all over the world up-to-date news and commentaries on current events. Extracts from important speeches are recorded for transmission to listeners and eye-witness accounts of outstanding gatherings, sports activities, exhibitions, and pageants all go into the production of the BBC’s "Radio Newsreel." In its day-a long day that started in the summer of 1940-‘"Radio Newsreel" has had several homes: a studio deep underground in Broadcasting House, until a Getman bomb drove it further afield; a study in a country house in the Midlands; amsther studio in another’ country house within sight and sound of the London barrage; and finally, back to London for the "buzz-bombs," the rockets, the Victory Parade-and two years of peace. Except for a period during the war when the Forces Edition was "overheard" in Britain, the programmes were for overseas listeners only-and they still are, although a seventh, main edition is soon to be added for listeners in Great Britain,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 13
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186"Radio Newsreel" New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 13
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