Besides the news and news rom-mentaries, the Empire service of the BBC does everything it can to provide the listener with what may be described as: adio snapshots of what life is like in this or that front line. rot excluding the front line of London itself under the German blitz. Such actuality broadcasts are. frequently incorporated in the news itself; but listeners are most likely to get them in that unique feature in the world's wireless, "Radio Newsreel'. It is, so to Speak, an illustrated—Stop-Pres: column, The listener, though, cannot always be serious, and the ' London programmes are well sandwiched with a variety of items lifted from the London scene within a quarter-mile radius of the broadcasting studio the latest shows, the best singers, the entertainments for overseas troops on leave in London, and everything else that shows that Britain, in the words of its Prime Minister, can be gay as well as grim." se services in the English lan-are only a part of now does as a matter Only some of the services that are fitted in. Each one, if only a weekly half hour, is a complete news and news commentary in itself, written and spoken nearly always by a native of the country to which it is addressed, now living ín London's front line. The author of that world-famous play, 'Lady Precious Stream'. Mr. Hsiung, is responsible for one Chinese Newsletter. Mr, Raja-Sing-ham gives the Tamil. One of the few exceptions is Mr. Dussek, who gives the Malayan Newsletter. "He is portance, amounting a new form of war intelligence, read by the British Cabinet and the chiefs of the fighting services.
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