THE principal life-boat broadcast in 1951 was in November, when "The Life-boat Story" was told in a series Science and Life in the programme London Calling Asia. Colonel A. D.

Burnett Brown, the secretary, Com- mander T. G. Michelmore, R.N.R., the chief inspector, Mr. R. A. Oakley, the surveyor of life-boats, a recording of ex-Coxswain Henry Blogg of Cromer, Coxswain G. Tart of Dungeness, Mrs.

Tart and the Dungeness motor mechanic all took part in it.

There were three broadcasts to schools. In June, the story of the life-boat service was told "for the fourteens". It included a talk with Coxswain Douglas Kirkaldie of Rams- gate. In the same month the programme "The Life-boats" which was given to Scottish schools in October, 1947, was repeated with revisions. In November in News Commentary for Schools there was a general talk about the Life-boat Ser- vice, with a description of its boats and of the service by the Walmer life-boat to the Captain Andrew, which had taken place four days before, on the night of the 24th of November.

In Children's Hour in the northern regional programme, there was a talk in August about the New Brighton life-boat, and another talk in Septem- ber about the first life-boat built at South Shields in 1789.

The first life-boat broadcast of the year was in January, in the Welsh programme, about the Moelfre station..