An 18-page file containing a series of government press statements on interviews and talks broadcast over Radio Singapore. The first press statement features a six-page transcript of an interview with BBC Director-General Ian Jacob during the first visit by a BBC director-general to Asia. Broadcast on 27 February 1959, the interview includes the purposes of the visit, the BBC’s structural, operational and funding models, its relationship with the UK Government and its “policy of complete impartiality and objectivity”. Another press release concerns a radio broadcast by Director of Broadcasting HH Beamish on 17 January 1959 which highlights a campaign to engage listeners and increase the number of radio licensees. In an earlier broadcast on 4 January 1959, Beamish announces the establishment of a separate radio service – Radio Singapore – which takes over the operations of the old pan-Malayan Department of Broadcasting. Also documented is a Radio Malaya statement, broadcast on the same day and at the same time, by Acting Prime Minister Abdul Razak announcing the establishment of a separate broadcasting service in the Federation of Malaya.
Jan 1959 - Feb 1959
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