ON 2nd January a broadcast of a launch of the motor life-boat at New Brighton, was given in the North Regional programme. The firing of the maroons, the orders of the cox- swain and the sounds of the life-boat leaving New Brighton stage were broadcast with a running commentary by Mr. W. W. Harris, vice-chairman and honorary secretary of the station, in which he described the launch and the work and record of the station, which has had 279 launches on service and has rescued 667 lives..