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FOB the second time, the Christmas Day programmes of all the British Broadcasting stations included a special hour, during which greetings were exchanged with various parts of the British Isles and the Empire, and terminating with a personal message from His Majesty the King delivered from his home at Sandringham. In addition, and for the first time, the special arrangements included a broadcast transmission of the chimes of the bells from the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, on Christmas Eve, December 24. A brief description of the technical arrangements by means of which these programmes were effected was given in the issue of the Wireless World for December 8. The communication with the different parts of the Empire took place through the Post Office beam transmitting stations at Rugby, the various circuits being operated from the switchboards in the Faraday Building, London, which was connected by a special line to the control room at Broadcasting House. The suggestion for a broadcast of the bells of Bethlehem actually came from the National Broadcasting Company of America last year, but the idea could not then be put into practice. This year, however, thanks to the co-operation of the Colonial Office and the High Commissioner for Palestine, the chimes were relayed by overhead line to Cairo and thence to the Post Office beam station at Abu Zabal, which transmitted the signals direct to the Post Office receiving station at Baldock, England.
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The Christmas World-Wide Broadcasts. Nature 132, 998 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132998b0
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