ABC weekly / Australian Broadcasting Commission

Call Number
N 059.44 AUS
Created/Published
Sydney : ABC, 1939-1959
Issue
Vol. 2 No. 51 (21 December 1940)
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Contents

THE ABC WEEKLY 1
Advertising 2
FEATURES THE ABC WEEKLY 3
AUSTRALIA ON THE AIR 3 , 4
Breath-taking drama of news broadcasting to the world 5
IF THEY’D ONLY STOP SINGING! 6
Our exciting new serial 6
Australia’s “Royal Stewarts” 6
Advertising 6
Wilfrid Thomas’s Christmas Cocktail 7
PICKED UP 8
Saving the Public from Quacks and Humbugs 9
Advertising 10
WINGED PLAGUE THAT TWO ARMIES FOUGHT 10
Comic Annual Dogfight of English Cricket 11
THEM THAR HILL-BILLY ARISTOCRATS 12
Origin of Xmas cards 12
Life in the Blood 12
Australian Peasantry 12
CANTEEN CAPERS 13
Advertising 13
WORLD WAGS 14
MR. TUTT Goodwill to All 14
News Quiz 15 , 43
New Weekly Feature PUZZLES 15 , 43
I'll Bet You! 15
The man who comes around 16
Sailors’ ghosts and pieces of eight of eight 17
Advertising 17
SCIENCE in the NEWS 18
The King's Christmas Broadcast 18
All The PROGRAMMES 19 , 20 , 21
SUNDA DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY’S A B C PROGRAMMES 22 , 23
MONDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY’S A B C PROGRAMMES 24 , 25
TUESDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY’S A B C PROGRAMMES 26 , 27
WEDNESDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY’S A B C PROGRAMMES 28 , 29
THURSDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY’S A B C PROGRAMMES 30 , 31
FRIDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY’S A B C PROGRAMMES 32 , 33
Advertising 33
SATURDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY’S A B C PROGRAMMES 34 , 35
Advertising 34
COUNTRY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK, DECEMBER 22-28 36 , 37
Australian Short Wave 37
Round the Clock with the Short-wave Receiver 38 , 39
B.B.C. Talks Worth Hearing 39
Advertising 39
A.B.C. Engages Famous English Duo-Pianists 40
THE LAST SHILLING 40
PLAYS OF THE AIR Radio and the Wartime Theatre 40
A KNIFE and a TAMBORAN 41 , 42 , 43
Advertising 42
DEFINITIONS Another list of Prize-winners 43
Pages far Women : Edited by Ernestine Hill Father Christmas out of Bounds 44
WAR AND THE WARDROBE 44
TO OUR BOYS IN EGYPT’S SANDS 45
Fairy-tale Land 45
They still sleep well in London 45
THE SPOKEN WORD 45
Advertising 46
ROUND THE WORLD ON FACE-CREAM 46
Stubborn woman wins 46
WAVE-LENGTHS 47
Advertising 48
Mr. Walker MEETS A FILM STAR 49 , 50 , 51
TIT-BITS from the TALKS 51
THIS WEEK'S MUSIC 52
Advertising 53
Other Preople's Letters Service costs 54
Ordinary listeners 54
Worth twice the price 54
Disgusted 54
Inspired 54
Should be read 54
Death of a doctor 54
For Stephen Yorke 54
More shows 54
Australian speech 54
Advertising 55 , 56

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