BBC: London Calling Asia

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BBC: London Calling Asia

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London Calling Asia, (LCA) was a programme in English for South and South East Asia and the Far East.  It was produced by the BBC’s Far Eastern Service and had its first broadcast on 13 May 1951 as a recorded transmission. The service transmitted daily between 13.15 and 14.00 GMT to South and South-East Asia and the Far East as a complement to English language programmes already being broadcast to these territories by the BBC's General Overseas Service. LCA was the maiden broadcast of the new and more powerful relay stations installed by the British Far Eastern broadcasting service in the U.K. and Singapore.

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Stephen Black interviews Henry Moore at his home for an overseas broadcast. First broadcast on 3 May 1954.

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