CHRISTMAS PROGRAMMES
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS This Christmas will be the occasion of a unique exchange of programmes between 2FC, Sydney, through its short wave station, 2ME and 2LO, London, New Zealand and Australian listeners will be able to hear a complete programme of Christmas carols and an English carillon of bells playing oldtime music. Those from the Homeland will have the whole atmosphere of a typical Christmas brought back to them, and may imagine themselves seated before a roaring log fire in a room decorated with holly, and snow thick on the ground and the rain beating an insistant tattoo on the window panes. The English programme, which is being broadcast by the 8.8. C., will be re-broadcast by 2FC and, it is hoped, by some stations in New Zealand.
Through 2ME, an Australian Christmas programme will be broadcast to England. 2FC will also transmit this on the usual wavelength. Complete details are not yet available. At 7.30 a.m., New Zealand summer .time, on Boxing Day, a remarkable novelty broadcast will be carried out by 2FC. A microphone is being placed on one of Sydney’s beaches, and a description of the sunny countryside will be broadcast. Australian listeners exiled in England will be able to revel in the vivid mind picture of a glorious sum-
mer morning in their home country This exchange in programmes will b all the more effective owing to thgreat difference between the festiv seasons on the opposite sides of th< globe. New Zealand is to have specia Christmas programmes, too. 3YA Christchurch, has arranged a compre hensive programme. On Christina Eve a children’s entertainment ii which all the uncles and aunts wil take part has been fixed. On Sun day, December 25, which is Christina Day, the evening service from th< Church of England cathedral will b broadcast. It will be a full cliora service, with anthem, and Christina carols at the conclusion. Auckland is preparing a big Christ mas carnival on the lines of that lieh in Christchurch some weeks age Broadcasts from the race gatherings although not, unfortunately, from th trotting meetings, will be a feature o the transmissions. In addition ther will be special Christinas music, fol lowed by programmes in keeping wit the spirit of Carnival Week. Souve
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 224, 10 December 1927, Page 12
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