Strolling About on the Roof of the World by Susan Farrington Hugh Leach

Author:Susan Farrington, Hugh Leach [Susan Farrington, Hugh Leach]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Asia, General, Social Science, Sociology, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781134426690
Google: c3KCAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-08-29T03:35:20+00:00

Journalists and Broad casters

In 1953 there were thirty-three members actively engaged in journalistic work. Those working in London included correspondents for The Times, the Telegraph, News Chronicle, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Graphic, the Jewish Chronicle and the Church of England Press, while others were based in the Middle East, Palestine, Turkey, India, Hong Kong and China. Among several from the BBC Overseas Services the most prominent were Mr Evelyn Paxton, of the BBC Arabic Service; Mr Nevill Barbour, a staunch supporter of the Palestinians, who also worked for the BBC Arabic Service, and Mr Eric Robertson who, after a broadcasting career in the Far East, returned home to the BBC Overseas Service. Significantly, Paxton, Barbour and Mrs Peggie Robertson were all involved in the Editorship of the Society’s Journal as was, briefly, Mr Evan Charlton, once editor of the Statesman of Calcutta and Delhi.

The career of another member merits more detailed study. Mr Peter Hume went to Peking as assistant editor of the Peking Chronicle in 1937, aged twenty, before Japanese troops occupied the city. He joined the Society the following year. He travelled extensively in Mongolia and Manchuria and acted as Secretary to the Royal Danish Geographical Society’s expedition there. During the war he worked with the Malay Broadcasting Corporation in Singapore when, due to the paucity of staff, he had to present the news, read it and then introduce a programme of music, all in different voices. Between the fall of Singapore and his return to restore a British Broadcasting Service there he was attached to the Chinese Ministry of Information in London. Subsequently he joined the BBC’s Chinese Service. Most tragic was the manner of his death in 1954 aged thirty-six. He fell from the upper-story ledge of his flat in an attempt to effect an entry having mislaid his key. In the short span of his membership he had lectured the Society and served twice on its Council. His knowledge of the Far East was, at that period, of great value and he was exactly the type of young member the Society wished to, and still needs to, attract. Fortunately the tradition is being maintained. A young member, Mr Rupert Wingfield-Hayes is, at the time of writing, the BBC’s correspondent in Peking, transferred temporarily to Afghanistan in October 2001.

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