IOR/R/15/2/336

The file contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission by the British Government of a monthly Persian Gulf newsletter to the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) for the latter's Arabic Service. The correspondence is between: the Political Agents at Bahrain, Kuwait, and Muscat; the Political Officer or Residency Agent at Sharjah; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain; the India Office; the Foreign Office; the Commonwealth Relations Office; Eastern Bank Limited; Violet Dickson, wife of Harold Dickson, the Political Agent at Kuwait; Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; and the BBC.

The correspondence includes the newsletters themselves (in English and Arabic), as enclosures, covering the period January 1947 to October 1948. The newsletters brought together brief news updates from Muscat, Kuwait, the Trucial Coast, and Bahrain, and covered various subjects, but with an emphasis on the activities of the region's ruling families and the visits of British and foreign dignitaries. They were to be included in the BBC's Arabic Service broadcasts.

The file contains correspondence relating to the payment by the BBC for the work entailed.

The Kuwait newsletter was compiled and written by Violet Dickson.

Folios 261-284 are internal office notes.