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A Christmas Message from Fiji - ABC International Development
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The Young Commonwealth was a 45 minute radio program.
45 minutes · program duration
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The local medical officer reflects on the differences and similarities of the homes and peoples of the Commonwealth in 1959.
1959 year · year of reflection
'The Young Commonwealth' was a 45 minute radio program broadcast from Australia to the world on Christmas Day, featuring messages from each commonwealth country.
In this short snippet, narrator Wilfrid Thomas first introduces a Fijian children's choir and then a local medical officer reflects on the differences, and similarities, of the homes and peoples of the Commonwealth in 1959. Listen out for the mention of his family's Christmas feasts of years ago!
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