King George V delivered the first-ever Christmas broadcast, ten years after BBC’s founding father, John Reight, initially approached him about doing a message on the relatively-new radio. His speech was written by Rudyard Kipling and it focused on the advances of technology that permitted the King to reach out to his subjects on all parts of the world. The need for work towards peace and counselling was also mentioned, urging listeners to aim for "prosperity without self-seeking."

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