"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation.
The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983.
NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI
LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English
DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 24 JULY, 1977
PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly
NUMBER OF PAGES: 138
VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XLII. No. 30
BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 62-115
ARTICLE:
1. "Bombay Calling…"
2. The End of the World ?
3. Nazrul and AIR
4 .When I was Like You
5. When Sarat Babu was Sixty-two
6. The First Female Announcer
7. Akashvani As I Have Known It
8. Memoirs of a Versatile Artiste
9. Fifty Not Out
10. AIR'S Achievement In R&D
11. Reflections On Tagore
12. Indo-US Friendship
13. Less Advice,Please !
14. Development of Brahmaputra Valley
15. Wild Life Photografy
16. AIR'S Service to Education
17. AIR'S Service to Science
18. Cricket In Retrospect
AUTHOR:
1.K. D. Dixit
2. Dr. S. K. Mitra
3. Amalendu Bikash Karchoudhary
4. Rai Bahadur Shri Jaladhar Sen
5. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
6.Smt. Indira Debi
7.Nalini Kanta Sarkar
8.Hiren Basu
9. H .R. Luthra
10. Dr. Mangal Sain
11. Aldous Huxley
12. Dwight D. Eisenhower
13. Justice (Late) H. Deka
14. Dr. Meghnad Saha
15. E.P. Gee
16. Dr. C.D.S. Devanesen
17. Prof. S.N. Paul
18. (Late) Col. C.K. Naidu
KEYWORDS :
1.Communication,Government,All India Radio,The Radio House
2.Belief,Cycles of Revolution,Equilibrium,Flood
3.Kazi Nazrul Islam, Durgapuja,Broadcast, Sarang Rang
4.Employee,Calcutta,Village,Merchant
5.All India Radio,Friends, Rabindranath,God
6.All India Radio,Calcutta,Entertainment,Announcer
7.Broadcasting Service,Calcutta,The Galaxy,Music
8.India,Music,Science,Drama Club
Document ID : APE-1977 (J-O) Vol-I-04
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