ABSTRACT
A body of Forces Correspondents was enrolled to reflect the views of the primary target for the Forces Programme, which had begun early in 1940. Though its sights were set on the B.E.F. and the Forces at home, it was also in effect a second channel for the civilian population and soon became the preferred channel for most of them. For the most part the content of the Forces Programme consisted of traditional light entertainment (indeed its grandchild, after the war, was the BBC Light Programme), but it was in no small measure as a direct result of evidence collected from our Forces Correspondents that a regular magazine programme of 'something to think about' was introduced into the Forces Programme. This was Ack-Ack Beer-Beer, designed to meet the special needs of men and women serving on often remote anti-aircraft sites where life consisted of long hours of boredom punctuated by short periods of all too exciting activity.
