Central Office of Information

And I thought, well, I might as well get paid for it and £8 an hour as a student in those days, you know.

So I went for this job and what I didn't realise was it was working for the Central Office of Information.

At the time they were called GNN, Government News Network.

And I just went in, did my little job and left.

In 1950 the station was renamed Radio Demerara, Demerara being the name of the river that flows past Georgetown.

The station was required by its licence to broadcast BBC material for three hours per day and a further 90 minutes per day of other programming provided by the UK's Central Office of Information in London.

Here's a sign-on of Radio Demerara in 1974 on 395m, 760kHz.

And I had to smile when I heard this one because the announcer identifies himself as being Ray Robinson.

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So as you alluded to a minute ago, apparently the film was kind of the impetus for the film came from an idea from the Labour government at the time, Central Office of Information, who wanted to illustrate the cooperation between all three branches of the armed forces.

um during the war which is a noble thing to do and it's a good has good propaganda value um even in the post-war you know early cold war period um Originally it was going to be called The Bright Flame, and it was more about the siege of the actual island.

And then they kind of tacked on this love interest story with a local Maltese girl, and then the traitor bit where her brother turns out to be a traitor and is dropped off by an Italian submarine.