IOR/L/PS/12/4132

This file contains correspondence regarding the timings, content and tone of BBC Arabic radio broadcasts and the reception that they received in the region, especially in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. The correspondence is primarily between officials at the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait, the Political Residency in Bushire, the Government of India, the Foreign Office and the BBC itself.

In addition to correspondence, the file contains the following:

• A script about Muscat written for broadcast on BBC Arabic (folios 6-12)
• 'The Radio Teaches You English', a BBC Arabic pamphlet that accompanied English language lessons it broadcast (folios 43-68)
• A Script about Bahrain written for broadcast on BBC Arabic (folios 166-168)
• 'The Arabic Broadcasts' a report compiled by the BBC in September 1938 assessing the output of BBC Arabic radio broadcasts to date and their reception (folios 341-358)
• 'Suggestions by the Political Agent, Kuwait on the Arabic broadcasting from London' (folios 363-365)
• 'Arabic Programmes from London' - BBC Notes on the content of BBC Arabic radio broadcasts, 1938 (folios 420-422)
• A number of copies of schedules (in Arabic) of BBC Arabic radio programmes during January and February 1938 (folios 473-474, 489-490, 499-500, 502-504, 512-514)
• 'Programme of Procedure at the Inauguration of Arabic Broadcasts on 3rd January, 1938' (folio 51)
• 'Minutes of a Meeting to discuss publicity for the Arabic Broadcasts held on Monday, 29th November 1937' (folios 531-532).

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.