The story of the current experiments involving
Telstar the world's first active communication satellite, through which direct telephone, telegraph. and television signals can be exchanged between America and Europe
The programme includes recordings made at the American ground station at Andover, Maine, and at Goonhilly. Cornwall, the site of the £ 800,000 ground station designed and built by the G.P.O. specially for this project
Narrator. FRANK DUNCAN
Compiled by JOHN IRVING
Produced by John Blunden in the BBC's Plymouth studios