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Radio Ceylon/Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC): The Story of Broadcasting in Sri Lanka
Vernon on the first ever television experimental program in Sri Lanka
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London Sounds Eastern on BBC Radio London 206
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Vernon Corea at Radio Worldwide at 13 Harold Road, Upper Norwood, South East London

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Monica and Vernon Corea with David Farringdon at Radio Worldwide

Vernon, Monica and family arrived in the UK in June 1975 to join Radio Worldwide, the radio outreach of the Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade, based in Bulstrode in Gerrads Cross Buckinghamshire. They were very happy times.
 
WEC was founded by the all-England cricketer, C.T.Studd - who actually travelled and played in Ceylon - on route to Australia. The family spent six months at WEC Headquarters in Gerrads Cross in Buckinghamshire.
 
CT Studd said:
 
'If Jesus Christ be God and died for me then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.'

 

 
 
 

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WEC Headquarters in Gerrads Cross, Buckinghamshire

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The Corea Family at WEC Headquarters in 1975

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CT Studd founder of WEC has visited Ceylon

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Vernon's departure from Radio Worldwide and his BBC appointment was mentioned in this news article

Vernon and Monica worked at Radio Worldwide, founded by the visionary Phil Booth, when RW was based in Upper Norwood in South East London.
 
Click on the Radio Worldwide icon below to go to the RW website:

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The former headquarters of RW in Harold Road Upper Norwood South-East London

Vernon Corea at Radio Worldwide