CHRISTMAS BROADCASTING
NOVEL EMPIRE ITEMS. (Recd. December 16, 10 a.m.) LONDON, December 16. The “Daily Express" says: The 8.8. C. has arranged 'with Richard Long, 95, the oldest inhabitant of the tiny Warwickshire village of Ilmington to speak the Empire’s Christmas greetings to the King. Villagers will gather at an old tithe barn on Christmas Day, and sing a carol and an “old folk song.” Then Long will read the message to the King and speak. The villagers will sing three lines of the National Anthem. The broadcast will then be switched to Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa and Canada, where will be sung the remaining lines, until the end of the third verse. Massed choirs of the Empire will sing the final line in the chorus.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 December 1934, Page 7
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