ABC weekly / Australian Broadcasting Commission

Call Number
N 059.44 AUS
Created/Published
Sydney : ABC, 1939-1959
Issue
Vol. 2 No. 44 (2 November 1940)
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Contents

THE ABC WEEKLY 1
Advertising 2
FEATURES THE ABC WEEKLY 3
Unless we Fight for Freedom we Cannot Fight at all 3
No title 4 , 5
One of these will be America’s Man of Destiny 6 , 7 , 8
Constitutional Weakness 8
Millions will listen to the Melbourne Cup Broadcast 9
PLEASE TO REMEMBER ... 9
PICKED UP 10
Words that fail to Capture the Rich Colours of Australia 11
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS 12
Advertising 12
METAL COMBINE 12
CANTEEN CAPERS 13
Introducing the “Bomb bore” 13
Advertising 13
WORLD WAGS 14
MR. TUTT Efficiency 14
Schoolmaster who took Australia Under his Wing 15
How to Forget Cup Week 16
Our Grandparents' taste in Art Was Vile! 17
Britain’s Hatred of Nazism is Almost a Religion 18
All The PROGRAMMES NATION-WIDE HOOKUP FOR CUP BROADCAST 19
What's On The air FEATURES IN THIS WEEK'S STATE PROGRAMMES 20 , 21
B.B.C. TALKS Worth Hearing 21
Advertising 21
Round the Clock with the Short-wave Receiver 22 , 23
Who’s Who in the Programmes 23
SUNDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A B C PROGGRAMMES 24 , 25
MONDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A B C PROGGRAMMES 26 , 27
TUESDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A B C PROGGRAMMES 28 , 29
Advertising 29
WEDNESDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A B C PROGGRAMMES 30 , 31
THURSDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A B C PROGGRAMMES 32 , 33
FRIDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A B C PROGGRAMMES 34 , 35
Advertising 35
SATURDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A B C PROGGRAMMES 36 , 37
COUNTRY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK, NOVEMBER 3-9 38 , 39
Australian Short Wave 39
Interstate Evening A B C Victoria 39
A B C Queensland 39
Plays of the Air- People in Books 40
CRUISE COMEDY 40
A Break in the Cord 41 , 42
Advertising 42
I'll Bet you! 42
Window Shopping Prizewinners 43
DEFINITIONS What’s Your Definition of a Blitzkrieg? 43
NEWS QUIZ 43
NEWS QUIZ ANSWERS 43
Page for Women: Edited by Ernestine Hill Lone Woman’s Ordeal in Desert 44
Poetess did not hate her Father 45
VILLAGES GO TO WAR 45
WHERE LITTLE GIRLS ARE DRUDGES 45
Wives and Incomes Let him Manage the Pay-cheque himself! 46
Advertising 46
Canteen Worker’s Confessions 46
THE SPOKEN WORD 46
WAVE-LENGTHS 47
Advertising 48
Australia’s Glorious Gardens LADY COWRIE WRITES FOR RED CROSS 48
PASTIMES OF A KING 48
CAROLINE CHISHOLM Woman who Mothered a Continent 49
CHIANG KAI-SHEKS AT HOME 49
Old-age Trousseau 49
Advertising 50
FRIEND OF A BANDIT 50
Are Bagpipers Musicians? 51
TIT-BITS from the TALKS 51
NATURE STUDY 51
Why try to “debunk” Australian Wattle? 52
CHURCHILL'S CUE IS TURNING U.S. EYES OUR WAY 52
OUR EXPENSIVE SHEEP DOGS 52
THIS WEEK’S MUSIC Was Elgar a Modernist? 53
ASK and be answered 54
Other People's Letters Names of Announcers 54
Air Cadets’ session 54
Singing praise 54
Trial by ordeal 54
Burning Questions 54
Simple English 54
"Out of the Bag" 54
Advertising 55 , 56

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