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A. W. Dharmapala
A.W. Dharmapala was a pioneering broadcaster and Outside Broadcast Engineer of Radio Ceylon - the oldest radio station in South Asia.
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Ameen Sayani
Ameen Sayani is a popular former radio announcer from India.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber Kt (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.
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Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (born 8 September 1933), is an Indian singer.
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Asia
Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.
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B. H. Abdul Hameed
B.
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Baila
Baila (also known as bayila; from the Portuguese verb bailar, meaning to dance) is a form of music, popular in Sri Lanka.
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Ballroom dance
Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world.
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Binaca Geetmala
Binaca Geetmala was a weekly countdown show of top filmi songs from Hindi cinema listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, that was broadcast on Radio Ceylon from 1952 to 1988 and then shifted to Vividh Bharati service of All India Radio network in 1989 where it ran till 1994.
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Bob Harvie
Bob Harvie was a popular announcer of Radio Ceylon.
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Bollywood
Hindi cinema, often metonymously referred to as Bollywood, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry, based in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Maharashtra, India.
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Bombay Dreams
Bombay Dreams is a Bollywood-themed musical, with music by A. R. Rahman, lyrics by Don Black and the book by Meera Syal and Thomas Meehan, originally produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Chitrananda Abeysekera
Chitrananda Abeysekera (1930–1992) was a veteran broadcaster, poet, writer and an administrator.
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Christian
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Christopher Greet
Christopher Arthur Greet (born 12 June 1932) was an announcer and presenter of radio programmes with Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia.
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Claude Selveratnam
Claude Selveratnam was a popular radio announcer of Radio Ceylon - the oldest radio station in South Asia.
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Cliff Foenander
Cliff Foenander was an Australian musician who performed in South East Asia and Las Vegas.
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Clifford Dodd
Clifford R. Dodd was an administrator and radio expert, with twenty years experience in broadcasting in Australia, before he arrived in Sri Lanka.
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Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola, or Coke (also Pemberton's Cola at certain Georgian vendors), is a carbonated soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company.
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Colombo
Colombo (translit,; translit) is the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.
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Colombo Plan
The Colombo Plan is a regional organisation that embodies the concept of collective intergovernmental effort to strengthen economic and social development of member countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Des Kelly
Desmond "Des" Kelly (born 1965) is a British journalist and broadcaster.
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Desmond Kelly
Desmond Kelly is a Ceylonese musician who has entertained in Sri Lanka and in Australia.
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Douglas Meerwald
Earle Douglas (Dougie) Meerwald was a pioneering Ceylonese musician.
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Eardley Peiris
Eardley Peiris was a radio announcer with Radio Ceylon who joined the radio station in the late 1950s and enjoyed huge popularity with millions of listeners across South Asia.
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Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary OSN (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.
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Edward Harper (engineer)
Edward Harper was a British engineer who travelled to Colombo in 1921 to work in the Ceylon Telegraph Department.
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Elmo Fernando
Elmo Fernando (died 11 August 2016) was a popular announcer with Radio Ceylon and subsequently the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Eric Fernando
Eric Fernando was a popular English-language broadcaster with the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting using frequency modulation (FM) technology.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Greg Roskowski
Greg Roskowski was an announcer of Radio Ceylon during the height of the station's popularity in the 1950s in South Asia.
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H. M. Gunasekera
H.M. Gunasekera was a respected broadcaster with Radio Ceylon and subsequently the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.
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Hindi
Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी, IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.
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Hindu
Hindu refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.
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History of broadcasting
The first broadcasting of a radio transmission consisted of Morse code (or wireless telegraphy) was made from a temporary station set up by Guglielmo Marconi in 1895.
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Jimmy Bharucha
Jimmy Bharucha, called a 'colossus in Sri Lanka's broadcasting world' died in Colombo in June 2005.
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K. L. Saigal
Kundanlal Saigal, often abbreviated as K. L. Saigal (11 April 1904 – 18 January 1947), was an Indian singer and actor who is considered the first superstar of the Hindi film industry, which was centred in Kolkata during Saigal's time, but is currently centred in Mumbai.
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Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran
Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran (also known as K. S. Sivakumaran; (born October 1, 1936) is a Sri Lankan Tamil writer, art & literary critic, Journalist and radio & TV personality. He writes and broadcasts both in Tamil and English.
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Karunaratne Abeysekera
Karunaratne Abeysekera (1930–1983) was one of Sri Lanka's most famous Sinhala broadcasters.
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Kiddies Corner
Kiddies Corner was a hugely popular children's radio programme broadcast on the Commercial Service of Radio Ceylon.
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Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar (4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987) was an Indian playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, and screenwriter.
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Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar (born 28 September 1929) is an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer.
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Leon Belleth
Leon Belleth was a popular announcer with Radio Ceylon and subsequently the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.
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Lester James Peries
Sri Lankabhimanya Lester James Peries (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකාභිමාන්ය ලෙස්ටර් ජේම්ස් පීරිස්; 5 April 1919 – 29 April 2018) was a Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
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List of Hindi broadcasters of Radio Ceylon
Hindi Broadcasters of the Hindi Service of Radio Ceylon.
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List of ministries of Sri Lanka
This is a list of ministries of Sri Lanka.
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List of Sri Lankan broadcasters
This list of Sri Lankan broadcasters includes notable broadcasters from the country of Sri Lanka.
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Livy Wijemanne
Livy Wijemanne was a pioneer of Radio Ceylon.
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M. J. Perera
Mapatunage James "M.
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Manohar Mahajan
Manohar Mahajan has been a popular announcer of the Hindi Service of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia.
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Medium wave
Medium wave (MW) is the part of the medium frequency (MF) radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting.
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Mervyn Jayasuriya
Mervyn Jayasuriya was a veteran announcer with Radio Ceylon - the oldest radio station in South Asia.
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Mil Sansoni
Mil Sansoni was a popular radio announcer and presenter of radio programs with Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia.
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Mohammed Rafi
Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 - 31 July 1980) was an Indian playback singer and one of the most popular and successful singers of the Hindi film industry.
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.
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Mukesh (singer)
Mukesh Chand Mathur (22 July 1923 – 27 August 1976), better known mononymously as Mukesh, was an Indian playback singer.
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Music
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
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Muslim
A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.
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Neville Jayaweera
Neville Jayaweera was a distinguished member of the prestigious Ceylon Civil Service (1955-1972).
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Nihal Bhareti
Nihal Bhareti is a popular radio announcer with the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation in Colombo.
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Nimal Mendis
Nimal Mendis (1934-2015) was a Sri Lankan singer and songwriter, and was one of a handful of Sri Lankan musicians to appear on the BBC television programme Top of the Pops (1968).
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Owen de Abrew
Owen de Abrew is one of Sri Lanka's leading ballroom dance personalities, he is known as the 'King of Ballroom dancing' in Colombo.
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Parliament of Ceylon
The Parliament of Ceylon was the legislative body of British Ceylon & Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) established in 1947 by the Soulbury Constitution, prior to independence on 4 February 1948.
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Pearl Ondaatje
Pearl Ondaatje was a pioneer of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia.
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Phonograph
The phonograph is a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
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Prosper Fernando
Prosper Fernando was a longstanding announcer with Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.
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Radio Ceylon
Radio Ceylon (ලංකා ගුවන් විදුලි සේවය Lanka Guwan Viduli Sevaya, இலங்கை வானொலி, ilankai vanoli) is the oldest radio station in Asia.
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Radio in Sri Lanka
Radio broadcasting in Sri Lanka dates to 1923.
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Radio SEAC
Radio SEAC was the war time radio station operated by the Allied South East Asia Command (SEAC) that took over the operations of Colombo Radio, a Ceylonese radio station launched in 1925.
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Radio station
A radio station is a set of equipment necessary to carry on communication via radio waves.
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S. Janaki
Sistla Janaki (born 23 April 1938), popularly known as S. Janaki, is an Indian playback singer and occasional music-composer from Andhra Pradesh.
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S. P. Mylvaganam
S.
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Shirley Perera
Shirley Perera was a popular announcer of the 1960s and 1970s in Radio Ceylon - the oldest radio station in South Asia.
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Sinhalese language
Sinhalese, known natively as Sinhala (සිංහල; siṁhala), is the native language of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 16 million.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.
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Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) (ශ්රී ලංකා ගුවන් විදුලි සංස්ථාව, Shrī Lankā Guvan Viduli Sansthāva, இலங்கை ஒலிபரப்புக் கூட்டுத்தாபனம், Ilangkai Oliparappuk Kūṭṭuttāpaṉam) came into existence on 5 January 1967 when Radio Ceylon became a public corporation.
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Submarine
A submarine (or simply sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
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Sunil Dutt
Sunil Dutt (6 June 1928 – 25 May 2005), born as Balraj Dutt, was an Indian movie actor, producer, director and politician.
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Tamil language
Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka, and by the Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Moors, Burghers, Douglas, and Chindians.
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Telegraphy
Telegraphy (from Greek: τῆλε têle, "at a distance" and γράφειν gráphein, "to write") is the long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic (as opposed to verbal or audio) messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message.
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Tenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay GM OSN (tendzin norgyé; 29 May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepali Sherpa mountaineer.
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The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian daily newspaper, headquartered at Chennai.
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Thevis Guruge
Thevis Guruge (died 23 July 1989) was a distinguished broadcaster with Radio Ceylon and subsequently the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.
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Tim Horshington
Timothy Navaratnam Horshington was a pioneering broadcaster of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Usha Uthup
Usha Uthup (born 7 November 1947) is an Indian pop, filmi, jazz, and playback singer who sang songs in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
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Vernon Abeysekera
Vernon Abeysekera, CCS was a Sri Lankan civil servant.
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Vernon Corea
Vernon Corea (11 September 1927 – 23 September 2002) was a pioneer radio broadcaster with 45 years of public service broadcasting both in Sri Lanka and the UK.
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Vijaya Corea
Vijaya Corea is a radio and television broadcaster and one of Sri Lanka's most well known media personalities.
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W. D. Amaradeva
Sri Lankabhimanya Wannakuwatta Waduge Don Albert Perera(වන්නකුවත්ත වඩුගේ දොන් ඇල්බට් පෙරෙරා; 5 December 1927 – 3 November 2016) better known by his adopted name Amaradeva, was a prominent Sri Lankan vocalist, violinist and composer.
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Website
A website is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name, and published on at least one web server.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Ceylon
