We used to pick up many overseas broadcasts on our old shortwave set......hours of fun listening to the music from different countries. :)) Cheers, Lynne. :)) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 6:18 PM Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] SLBC Re: Radio and the Raj:broadcastinginBritish India. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "mukund murty" > Gosh, lucky boy, all *we* had was notebooks in our days :-) > > On 1 May 2010 12:06, Michael Ali wrote: >> The English service of Radio Ceylon was very, very popular with the >> Anglo-Indian and Goan communities in Karachi. In fact, those of us > who had tape recorders ( usually Grundig spool-type) waited with baited > breath for any Jim Reeves song to come on air to press the 'Record' > button. > ================ > > I think first an apology is called for to those who are not interested > in this particular thread. But if they have never ever heard Radio > Ceylon/SLBC, they wouldn't understand this nostalgia. > > The majority of RC's English Service listenership consisted of Anglo > -Indians and Goans mainly from Bombay, Madras, and other places > in south India. Vernon Corea who joined Radio Ceylon in 1957 was > its most famous broadcaster. There are many webpages remembering > him. See this -Vernon Corea - The Golden Voice of Radio Ceylon > http://members.tripod.com/ivan_corea/id8.html > > The same page also shows Ameen Sayani's photo (see yesterday's > mail). And then there this = Wartime Radio in Ceylon > > Lord Louis Mountbatten moved the RADIO SEAC operations from New > Delhi first to Kandy and then to Colombo during World War II. This was > Ceylon's first ever wartime radio station and it played a vital role from > 1944 - 1946. > > > Some other interesting pages on Radio Ceylon's history: > > http://www.planetradiocity.com/musicopedia/music_decade.php?conid=2337 > > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=274538565077 > > http://ivan_corea.tripod.com/ > > Welcome to Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation > http://www.slbc.lk/ > > --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynne Hadley" We used to pick up many overseas broadcasts on our old shortwave set......hours of fun listening to the music from different countries. :)) Cheers, Lynne. :)) ======================= And there was a time when anything and everything that was said on Auntie Beeb's news programmes was considered gospel truth by most Indians. Our government-owned AIR or All India Radio was infamous for its censored, one-sided, selective coverage and so, for independent confirmation or first-hand information, BBC's World Service was the only reliable source, well within the reach of everybody using short-wave receivers. There is a story - may be quite true, may be apocryphal, and I guess, going back to the 1950s - which tells how a regular Calcuttawallah Englishman was taken aback while driving to the airport, when the cabbie suddenly made a detour, and instead of using the direct road on which the passenger had travelled a hundred times, drove his taxi through lanes and alleys. ''What's the matter'', he asked, ''do you think I am new to this city? This isn't the way to the airport.'' The cabbie calmly replied, ''No worries, sahib, I am not trying to cheat you.'' He pointed to a portable transistor radio in the glove compartment, and said, ''Just before you came in, I was listening to BBC news and it said just half an hour ago rioting broke out near 'Maidan'. I don't want to be caught up in that, so I am using this long-cut. I won't go that way again till the BBC tells me it's safe.'' --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar