BRITISH BROADCASTING OVERSEAS
Sta,—I am sorry that I should have left your correspondent in Ceylon under the impression that B.B.C. programmes specially directed to his part of the world are so timed as to reach their target during the normal hours of well-earned sleep. In my letter which you very courteously published in your issue dated May 29r1 I thought I had fairly clearly conveyed that listeners in India and Ceylon could hear the particular programme in question at 8.35 p.m. by their local time. I and my colleagues who are employed in trying to meet the listening requirements • of those who reside in those countries have also lived and worked there , ourselves, and we are conscious of the advantages of adjusting our watches when travelling from west to east or in the reverse direction. I am ask- ing the B.B.C. office in New Delhi to send your correspondent the full schedule of those B.B.C. broadcasts which are available to him at a (locally) convenient time of day.—Yours faithfully,
DONALD STEPHENSON,
Director of Eastern Services.
British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting House, W. r.
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