London Calling

Series

Series Name

London Line

Issue

Issue No.

587

Length of issue (in feet)

173

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1London Calling

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: The BBC’s External Services broadcast to 70 million listeners all over the world, are on the air for 24 hours a day, and put out programmes in 39 languages. London Line looks at a typical day’s output from the BBC’s Bush House in London.

Researcher Comments

NB: ‘This Week In Britain’ ran the same story

Keywords

Broadcasting

Written sources

COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1257/587

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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