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| Sweet voices
win admiration from thousands of overseas listeners |
| AT 8:40pm local time on September 11,
1947, the voice of liberated China reached the outside
world in an English-language broadcast for the first.
It came from a cave in the small village of Shahe, nestling
in the Taihang Mountains, north China. The news read by
a young pigtailed woman named Wei Lin who is now 79. |
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| "The studio was in a doorless cave with
no proper equipment," says Ms. Wei, "and only a kerosene
lantern for lighting. Whenever we started broadcasting, we had
to hang up a coarse felt blanket to keep out the bleating of
nearby sheep". There were no tape recorders then-the only
music they could use was a phonograph recording of the Triumphal
March from the opera Aida. Other songs were simply into the
microphone. |
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| At CRI English
Service's 50th anniversary celebration party (in 1996). |
| Wei Lin retired in 1983, but volunteered to do
part-time work for our English Service. She can still be heard
on the air occasionally conducting the programs of Chinese Sayings
and Stories and Culture in China till 1994. China Radio International
has celebrated its 60th birthday. Wei has seen the rickety wartime
broadcasting station evolve into Radio Beijng (the former name
of CRI) and now CRI, and herself growing up to be a first-rate
English announcer. |
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| At
CRI English Service 2003 New Year Party |
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