HER MAJESTY'S CHRISTMAS BROADCAST
IT HE Gideits Christmas broadcast this year will be made from the Gover- | nor-c -General’s study at Government House, Auckland, at 9.0 p.m, (N.Z. time) | on Christmas Day. ) In a joint statement the Minister in Charge of Broadcasting (Hon. R. M. Algie) and the Minister of Internal | Affairs (Hon. W.. A. Bodkin) said the time fixed met three important conditions: It was convenient for the Queen; -it was suitable for the greatest number of Commonwealth listeners; and _ it | offered the most favourable transmission _ and reception conditions. _ From. Government House the Queen’s message will travel by landline to 1YA’s control room, where it will be fed into a network of lines for transmission to NZBS stations throughout the country. From Wellington the transmission will be fed to Radio New Zealand’s two shortwave transmitters at Titahi Bay and beamed toward Australia. Two € shortwave transmissions will be beamed, in different directions, toward the United Kingdom. These will be from the Services’ transmitter, H.M.N.Z.S. ‘rirangi, at Waiouru, and. from the Post -and Telegraph Department’s transmitter at Himitangi. For its worldwide broadcast, the BBC may pick up either of these transmissions direct or may receive one or other on relay from the BBC shortwave station at Tebrau, near Singapore. The BBC will also have the
option of picking up the broadcast from the powerful transmitters of Radio Australia. Atmospheric conditions at the time of the Queen’s broadcast are expected to be satisfactory, and the NZBS is taking all precautions to ensure that no other interruptions occur. Important items of equipment will be duplicated
and, as far as humanly possible, every chance of a "technical hitch" eliminated. The Commonwealth. Christmas programme, which precedes the Queen’s message, will this year be produced. in Australia. Music for the programmewhich consists of contributions by various Commonwealth countries-will be composed by the Australian John Antill and performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The BBC’s Head of Features, Laurence Gilliam who, with Alan Burgess, will produce the Christmas programme, described this orchestra as "one of the best I have ever heard." * Mr. Gilliam said also that the narrator of the programme would, if possible, be the Australian film star Peter Finch. This actor is at present being seen here in the role of Rupert D’Oyly Carte in The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan. = Messrs. Gilliam and Burgess are to leave Britain three months before Christmas, and between them will visit Cyprus, Kenya, Rhodesia, South Africa, Mauritius, India, Pakistan, Singaporé and the Cocos Islands to discuss programme contributions from these places. According to Mr, Gilliam the Queen will make her broadcast to the Commonwealth "after spending a typical New Zealand day, on the beaches, picnicking in the New Zealand summer."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 7
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452HER MAJESTY'S CHRISTMAS BROADCAST New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 7
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