THE British Broadcasting Corporation took the opportunity of the visit of life-boatmen to London for the annual meeting to put the life-boat service on the air. There were four broadcasts that week, and a fifth three weeks later.

On 26th April, the dav of the annual meeting, in "The World Goes By," in the national programme, in which people in the news are brought to the microphone, Mr. William Freeman, the only survivor of the St.

Ives crew, gave an account of the cap- sizing and wreck of the life-boat on 23rd January last. It was described by an official of the B.B.C. as one of the most moving talks that had ever been given.

Mrs. Tom Lisle, who was no stranger to broadcasting, spoke on the air in the morning of the same day, in the overseas and regional programmes, in the feature called "At the Black Dog," in which Mr. Wilkes is at home in his own bar parlour. She talked of her work as she goes on her round selling fish, and of her collecting for the life- boat service; and she sang the chorus "Will ye buy?" from the song "The Cullercoats Fish Lass." Next day, Mrs. Lisle was in the television programme, and again talked of her work and sang.

On the 29th April, Coxswain J. R.

Nicholson, of New Brighton, broadcast in "In Town To-night," in the national programme. He gave an account of the service to the Progress and the Lech Ranza Castle, in the great gale of 23rd November, 1938, for which as second coxswain, he had received the bronze medal at the annual meeting.

Then, on 18th May, Coxswain Sidney H. B. Page, of Southend-on-Sea, one of the medallists at the annual meeting, returned to London and took part in "The Picture Page," in the television programme, in full life-boatman's dress, telling the story of his two services in 1938—one on 2nd June, to the yacht Wimpie and the barges Glenrosa and Audrey, and the other on 26th Novem- ber, to the barges T.F.C., Glenmore and Lord Roberts, for which he won the bronze medal and the second-service clasp to it..