Ix December, 1948, the secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., broadcast a talk "Exploits of the old Sailing Life- boats." This talk was on the air the day after the motor life-boat St. Allans arrived at New Quay, Cardigan, and there replaced the last of the pulling and sailing life-boats in the Institu- tion's fleet. The St. Albans also had the distinction of being the first life- boat to be shown by television.

Shortly afterwards, in a gala new year's television programme, on New Year's Eve, Coxswain Sydney Page, of Southend-on-Sea, appeared as "the typical Englishman" in a scene which included the typical Scot and the typical Welshman.

The Mumbles and Walmer At the beginning of February a life- boatman at The Mumbles, Tom Ace, broadcast a talk in the "Danger" section of the series "In Britain Now," on the service to the Canadian frigate Cheboque, in January, 1941, when the coxswain won the gold medal, and in March there was a recording of an exercise launch at Hoylake in the Home Service under the title "Round- about." On the 7th of May Coxswain Fred Upton, of Walmer, spoke on the work of his station in "In Town To-night," and on the 12th and 13th a talk on the Life-boat Service was given in the Merchant Navy Programme which is broadcast twice a week to the Mer- cantile Marine.

On the 16th of May, the eve of the life-boat flag day in Greater London, life-boats again appeared on the tele- vision screen in a programme called "Into Action," which consisted princi- pally of scenes from the Institution's films. On the 20th, Miss Lilian Sayce broadcast on "The Men who Guard our Shores," and her talk was sent overseas the following week.

On the 25th of June, Major Peter Hansell, the honorary secretary at the Cromer Station, gave a talk on life- boats when the Midland Regional Children's Hour was broadcast from the Cromer Parish Hall and a week later, on the 2nd of July, Children's Hour, in the Home and other Services, visited the Cromer life-boat Henry Blogg and children talked with Cox- swain H. T. Davies.

Talks in Arabic, Swedish, Norwegian and Spanish On the first of July there was a ten- minute talk in Arabic, and on the 27th of July a fourteen-minute talk in Swedish.

The Walmer coxswain having come to London for "In Town To-night" in May, men from the B.B.C. went .to Walmer two months later, and on the 3rd of August Mr. Gilbert Harding described in "The World Goes By" a trip in the life-boat to the Goodwin Sands.

A little later Norwegian and Latin- American broadcasters also visited the Walmer station. There was a thirteen- minute talk to Norway on the 1st of September and a five-minute talk to Latin-America on the 4th of September, and to Spain a week later, in "Britain This Week." In the same month there were six more life-boat broadcasts—a talk in the Welsh programme on the 9th about the new Rhyl life-boat, another in Radio Newsreel on the 14th about the presentation at Cromer of French medals for the rescue on the 8th of July, 1948 of the crew of the Francois Tixier, of Dunkirk, and another talk on the same ceremony in the European Service. On the 14th, Mr. Guy Eden talked about life-boats in the schools programme in the Home Service. On the 29th Coxswain Swarts. of Barry Dock talked in the Welsh programme about his model of the life-boat at The Mumbles which had won a prize in the Model Engineering Exhibition in London.

In Scotland, on the llth of October, Mr. John Marshall, chief classics mas- ter of the North Berwick High School, gave a broadcast to schools on Scottish life-boats in the series "Scottish Affairs." In December Mr. Richard Dimbleby went to Exmouth for the 150th visit in the Sunday series of broadcasts "Down Your Way." He talked in the life-boat house with Coxswain Reginald Searle: "And here," so the programme concluded, "at the wheel of the Ex- mouth life-boat we end 'Down Your Way', number 150.".