WEDNESDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 1, 30 June 1939, Page 25

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=. oe "A | VY AUCKLAND 650 k.c. 462 m. 7. Oa.m. BREAKFAST SESSION, 9. 0 Close Down. 10. 0 Devotional Service. 10.15 Selected Recordings. 41. 0 Talk to Women by Margaret. 11.10 Selected Recordings. 12. 0 Community Singing, relayed from the Mayfair Theatre. 4.30 p.m. Lunch Music. 2. 0 Selected Recordings. 2.30 Classical Hour. 3.15 Sports Results, 8.30 Light Musical Programme. 4. 0 Weather Report for Farmers. 4.30 Sports Results. 6. 0 Children’s Session, conducted by Cinderella and Peter, ' 6. 0 DINNER pape tit "The Desert Song " Romberg " Liebesfeler" ....., we * Weingartner "A Thousand Kisses" ........ Joyce "Tango Habanera" .,.... arr. Hartley * Prelude in C Sharp sae’ +4 " * Love’s Last Word is as * Santiago" .....+.. cenececs Ph "Do You Love eseecees Kuster "Secrets of the Adige" o..... Carena PODSUNEION "" 0656 ¢s wows arr, Crook *L’Amour Toujours L’Amour" .. Friml " Serenade ’-B Flat Major ...... Liszt * Little Butterflies" ........ Steinke "The Musical Clock of Madame De Pompadour " ...rasteecsees Noack * Raphaellito" ....... . Foulkes "Liliputians Wedding’ 2 7.0 NEWS ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT.; ALSO BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS (REBROADCAST FROM 2YA). 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS. 7.30 Book Review. 8. 0 Poulenc (Piano), Lamorlette (Oboe), and Dherin (Bassoon), gat) eee ere a Poulenc Since the Great War a temporary group of modern composers, styling themselves "Les Six" (The Six) has arisen in France. They preferred to be considered rather as a band for mutual friendship and for attack and defence than as a school. One of the youngest members is Francis Poulenc (born in Paris, 1899) whose opposition to the romantic is the chief characteristic of his music. 8.16 Nancye O’Connor (Soprano), " Minnelied ".. Walter Kramer "How Deep in Love Am I" Herbert Hughes "An Old Song Ended" Clifton Parker "He is Tender with the a Donald Ford "Flame in the Skies of Sunset" ...... Hamilton Harty 8.28 Isobel Langlands (Violin) plays © "Sonata" .......... Handel After a childhood in which music steadily asserted its claims in the teeth of parental displeasure, Handel became violinist in the opera orchestra of Hamburg. Superficially jaca’ dee taabpiande: Siearntions wilt te vag? be a Bibs PB 0 air, aa a

regarded, his chamber works are but miniatures compared with those with which he scaled the heavens, and which made him an object of worship to the world’s greatest musicians, yet they all have lyric charm and are no less perfect. 8.38 Heinrich Rehkemper (Baritone), "The Rat’s Death Song," "A Message" ........ Wolf 8.44 Strings of the Studio Orchestra, conducted by Harold Baxter, "Introduction and Allegro" Elgar 9. 0 Weather Report and Station Notices ® B&B Coronets of EnglandCharles II. 9.32 BUGLE CALLS OF THE BRITISH ARMY. Played, Sung, and their meanings given by "Majors Three." We all know what a bugle sounds like, but do we know what all the calls mean? Every bugle call in the British Army is for a purpose. Some calls bring every soldier to attention, others bring him to the double -which is which? : 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY. 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN.

LY/ WELLINGTON 2 570 k.c. 526 m. When Parliament is_ being broadcast this programme will be transmitted by 2YC. Usual hours of Parliament: Monday to Thursday inclusive, 2.30-5.30 p.m. and 7.30-10.30 p.m.; Friday, 10.30 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2.30-5.30 p.m. 6.50a.m. Weather Report for Aviators. 7. 0 BREAKFAST SESSION. 8. O Close Down. 10. 0 Weather Report for Aviators. 10.10 Devotional Service. 10.25 Recording. 10.28to10.30 Time Signals from the Dominion Observatory. 10.45 A Talk to Women by Margaret. 12. O Lunch Music. 1. Op.m. Weather Report for Aviators. 2. O Classical Hour. 3.0 Light Music. Sports Results.

3.28to3.30 Time Signals from the Dominion Observatory. Weather Report for Farmers, and Frost Forecast for Canterbury and Otago. :, 4. 0 Sports Results. 5. O Children’s Session, featu at 6.40 LITTLE WOME (Episode 10), a Radio Play for Girls and Boys. 6. 0 DINNER SESSION. "Round a Gipsy Camp Fire" arr. Mantovant " Vives: Hungaria 6c iseeds Kalman * Guitarre"’ .... Moszkowskt-Sarasate " Swabian Peasant Waltz" ..., Krome " Vibaphone Waltz" .....ssscaece Lohr "Memories of Mendelssohn " arr. Sear " Traumideale, Op. 69" »eeeee-- Fucik " Sweethearts " ..... ccewceese Herbert "Tartar Dance" ...cccsseses Woodin "Stephanie Gavotte" ..... » Czibulka " Spring, Beautiful Spring" ,« Lincke "4 Merdt "Oras eos tes doe see «+. Grofe "Die Kosenden " Waltz ...++. Lanner "The Knave of Diamonds" ,... Steele S$ Becansda"? cssccccvcccsness Phillips 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT.; ALSO BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS. (REBROADCAST BY THE NATIONAL STATIONS.) 710 NEWS AND REPORTS. (Approx.) 7.28to7.30 Time Signals from the Dominion Observatory. TALK by THE GARDENING EXPERT. 8. 0 CHIMES. LIGHT ORCHESTRAL AND BALLAD PROGRAMME, The 2YA Concert Orchestra, conducted by Leon de Mauny, "The Bird Seller" Overture Bauckner 8. 9 The Cameo Three, "Salt Breezes" .. arr. Howe 8.17 The Orchestra, "In the Chilterns" Suite Reginald King Reginald King’s suite ‘‘In the Chilterns," is perhaps a little more ambitious in structure and more mature in character than previous works of his. The suite ts the outcome of his frequent visits to the Chiltern Hills. His love of nature and the quietude of rural life are well portrayed in all his music, and especially in this new work dedicated to his own countryside, 8.27 The Cameo Three, "Lullabyland" .. arr. Howe 8.32 Sydney Gustard (Organ), "Hermann Lohr Medley" ' 8.36 The Orchestra, "Palace of Varieties" March Longstaffe 8.40 TALK by Dr. Guy H. Scholee field on WORLD AFFAIRS. 9. 0 Weather Report and Station Notices. 9. & Singapore Spy (12), produced by James Raglan. 9.32 Dramatic Feature, THRILLS. 9.45 Personal Column, 10. 0 DANCE PROGRAMME. i 10.28to10.30 Time Signals from the Dominion Observatory. 11, 0 CLOSE DOWN.

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SV, CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416 m. 7. Oa.m. BREAKFAST SESSION. | 9. 0 10. 0 10.30 10.45 41. 0 11.10 11.30 12. 0 Close Down. Selected Recordings. Devotional Service. Selected Recordings. A Talk to’ Women by Margaret. Women’s Session, conducted by Mrs. L. E. Rowlett. Selected Recordings. Lunch Music. 1.30 p.m. EDUCATIONAL SES1.55 2.20 2.40 SION, Miss Janet McLeod (for Stds. 8 and 4, and Forms 1 and.2), Speech Training (2). A. G. Linn, M.A. (for Stds. 8 and 4), The Coal Miner. F. C. Brew, M.A. (for Forms 1 and 2), The Coal Age-Iron Towns. Selected Recordings. Frost and Special Weather Forecast, and Light Musical Programme. 30 Sports Results. Children’s Hour. DINNER MUSIC. "Marche Heroique De Szabady " Massenet = aad Stars," Waltz ...... Lanner eee eeeces reese eseoes Lerner = Devartal Dance, No. 2" Hammerbach *"* Castles in the Moon,’"’ Waltz .. Lincke "Love’s Hour,’ Intermezzo .... ‘Siede ON oe hte ta ik cake Brahms *‘Baby Parade," Intermezzo Mann{red "The Golden Musical Box" .... Krome "Dance of the Icicles" ...... Russell "Stars Fell on Alabama" .... Perkins oe FERED ICU 8S din Sa ok KR eden Thiele " Norwegian Dance, No. 2" .... Grieg PEO SMU oo dc 360-5 dre dea pe 0.0 0) ce Pata "The Balkan Princess,’’ Waltz Rubens Patna." Se cadis > 00'ee Chaminade 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT.; ALSO BRITISH ‘OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS (REBROADCAST FROM 2YA). 7.10 7.20 7.32 8.35 NEWS AND REPORTS. Addington Stock Market Reports. WINTER COURSE TALK: Professor F. Sinclaire, " The Literature of Sanity — Some Masters of Sanity." READINGS BY MR. O. L. SIMMANCE, WITH MUSIC. "Pickwick Papers," by Charles Dickens, and "An Extract from the Diary of Mr. Pepys." London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, " Allegro non Troppo" Brahms Edward Mignan ( Organ), "Fugue in D Minor" . .. Bach Vera Yager, F.T.C.L., (Pianist), "Waltz in A Flat" .. Chopin "Romance Sans Paroles" Rebikoff "Rhapsodie Hongroise No. 11" Liszt

8.51 Theod Scheid! (Baritone), "Could I Once Again Caress SMSO" S50 40b weeks Liszt Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, "Prelude A _ L’Apres- Midi D’Un Faune" ...;.. Debussy Weather Forecast. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, "Russlan and Ludmilla" OverTHPO OS. sce a it eh od Glinka Kirsten Flagstad (Soprano), "F’er Since Thine Eyes," and bil, OX) | | Sale sh ean Be R. Strauss

9.15 Philharmonic Symphony. Orchestra of New York, conducted by Willem Mengelberg, "EIN HELDENLEBEN, Op. 40" ........ Richard Strauss "Ein Heldenleben" (A Hero’s Life) is one of the greatest works of Richard Strauss. It was composed in 1899 and was first produced in England at Queen’s Hall in 1902, when it was conducted by the composer himself, and evoked considerable controversy. It represents. the mighty struggle of the hero against the forces of reaction, the conservatism of criticism and the lethargy of the public. 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY. 11..0 CLOSE DOWN...

ANY DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m.} | : 6.50 a.m. Weather Report for | Aviators, | 7. 0 CHIMES. BREAKFAST SESSION. 9. 0 Close Down. 10. O Weather Report for Aviators. | Selected Recordings.

10.15 Devotional Service. 10.50 A Talk to Women by Margaret. 11. 0 Selected Recordings. 12. 0 South Dunedin Community Sing, relayed from Mayfair Theatre. 1. Op.m. Weather Report for Aviators. 4.10 Community Sing. (Approx.) 1.30 Weather Forecast. Lunch Music. 2.0 Selected Recordings,

3.15 A TALK by the A.C.E. Home Science Tutorial Section, DO TEETH MATTER? 3.30 Sports Results. Classical Music. 4. 0 Weather Report, and Special Frost Forecast. 4.30 Light Musical Programme. 4.45 Sports Results. 5. O Children’s Hour, conducted by Big Brother Bill and the Travel Man. 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC. "Les Cloches de Corneville " . Planquette " Songs of India" .. Rimsky-Korsakov " The Butterfly. os se so -oeweis Bendix " Mexicali Rose" ...«.. Stone Tierney "La Habaniera"" . ascee ce teow Lucena "The Zaréewitsch.’* 00 t+ set 6%» Lehar ** JoyousNess " cc caece Haydn Wood " Poctrinen ":..vsrcccecvecses SUTAUSS ‘" Re Embraced Ye Millions"’ .. Strauss "Lightning Switch" .....+..-. Alford "A Coon Band Contest" ...... Pryor " Hungarian Dance in D" .... Brahms ** Storm GIO)" sc. +++ ckaeeae® Komsak 7. 0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT.; ALSO BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS _ (REBROADCAST FROM 2YA). 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS. (Approx.) 7.30 BOOK TALK. 8. 0 CHIMES. Mittens. Perhaps: Mittens will win the Melbourne Cup in the end, but we know that his owners have still a long way to go before they finally defeat. Brent and Grimway, the racing crooks. 8.15 The Bold, Bad Buccaneers. 8.28 The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s. 8.40 Sidney Torch (Organist), " A-Tisket A-Tasket " Fitzgerald and Feldman "J Hadn’t Anyone Till You" Noble 8.47 From Stage to Screen: Personalities and Experiences. An interview with Miss Betty Balfour. An interview with the well-known stage and screen star, in which Miss Balfour gives her opinions about the development of the stage and the screen, and some of her experiences. 9. 0 Weather Report and Station Notices. 9. 5 Westward Ho! 918 A Dramatic Feature: THRILLS. 9.31 Exploits of the Black MothIN THE CAUSE OF CHARITY. . The Black Moth-shadowy criminal who fights criminals-a modern Robin Hood of the night. Sergeant Smithers, of the C.I.D., obviously suspects the debonair Denis Carcroft, racing car driver; but where is your proof, Sergeant Smithers? 10. 0 Modern Dance Music by Jay Wilbur and his Band, with interludes by Dick Todd. 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN. ~

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aly INVERCARGILL 680k.c. 441 m. 7. 0-9.0a.m. Breakfast Session from 4YA, 11. O Recordings from 4YA. 12. 0-2.0 Luncheon Session. 5. 0 Light Music. 5.30 Children’s Session-"Paradise Plumes and Headhunters." 5.45 Tunes of the Day. 6.15 "Robinson Crusoe." 6.30 Patricia Rossborough (piano). 6.45 "Rich Uncle from Fiji." 7. © After Dinner Music (Station Announcements at 7.30). 8. 0 Gardening Talk. 8.15 "Singapore Spy." 8.42 Boston Promenade Orchestra with Tito Schipa (tenor). 8. 0 His Lordship’s Memoirs: "An Extradition Order." 9.30 Swing Session, compered by Frank Beadle. 10. O Close Down. I Y 880 k.c. 341m. 5. 0-6. Op.m. Light Musical Programme. 7. 0 After Dinner Music. 8. O Band Music with Vocal Interludes, and, at 8.80, Here’s a Queer Thing (Episode 17). 9. O Humour on the Range. 9.34 Personal Column, drama from the agony column of a newspaper. 9.48 Lukewela’s Royal Hawaiians. 10. 0 Light Recitals, featuring Alfredo Campoli (violin). 10.30 Close Down. IRAN steer 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light Orchestral and Popular Selections. 6. O Miscellaneous. 6.45 News, Announcements. 7. 0 Orchestral and Instrumental. 7.45 Cavalcade of Empire. O Peep into Filmland with "Billie." 9.0 Swing Music. 9.20-10.0 Hawaiian and Popular Melodies. : 10. O Close Down. QY WELLINGTON 840k.c. 357m. When Parliament is being broadcast the ordinary programme scheduled for Station oe will be broadcast through 2YC. ; &. 0-6.0p.m. Light Musical Programme, S |

10. 0 10.30 After Dinner Music. From Sunny Italy: Gems from Italian Grand Opera. Symphonic Programme: Featuring at 8.50, "Symphony No. 9 in D Minor" (Beethoven), played by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Merry and Bright. Close Down. QVM SELIM ETON 7. Op.m. Cocktails, a Rhythmic 7.32 7.45 8.12 8.40 8.45 9. 0 9.20 Appetiser, Here’s a Queer Thing. The Kingsmen, Radio’s Royal Quartet, Is New Zealand Rugby Deteriorating? By G. G. Aitken, captain, All Blacks v. South Africa, 1924; Scottish International, 1923-24-25. Records at Random. 2YD Trailer, Rhythm is Our Business. Stars of the Musical Firma-. ment. Syd Walker Wants to Know No. 1) A new type of radio presentation. Syd Walker has the happy knack of coming up against most interesting problems-and he calis on listeners to exercise their ingenuity. Listen to his peoplenis, and when he 0. asks you for the s ution, drop a postcard to Syd Walker, c/o 2YD, Wellington, and hear the verdict with the next episode. 10. 0 Radio City Revels, Close Down,

LQVin) roar IER 7. 0-9. Oa.m. Breakfast Session. 11. 0 Light Music. 12. 0-2. O Lunch Session. 5. Op.m. Light Musical Pro6. 0 6.12 6.25 7. 0 8. 0 8.17 9. 0 10. 0 gramme. Children’s Session (Uncle Charlie, Aunt Nin). The Japanese Houseboy,. Light Music. Khyber (Episode 5). After Dinner Music. Light Recitals. Dance Music. Operatic and Symphonic Excerpts Close Down. AYN snes Sam, 7. Op.m. The Queen’s Necklace 7.15 %. 0 9.45 10. 0 (Episode 20). Light Music. Concert Programme. Items requested by listeners. Band Music by Fodens Motor Works Band, with Vocal Inte~ludes by Paul Robeson. Eb and Zeb (Episode 50). Light Music. Close Down.

SW CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. 5. 0-6. Op.m. Recordings. 7. 0 After Dinner Music. 8. 0 Leaves from the Diary of a Film Fan. 8.32 Tunes on a Hand-saw by Charles Hall. 8.37 The Village Wedding. 8.44 George Scott Wood’s Orchestra. 8.50 Gertrude Lawrence Medley. 8.58 American Tempo. 9. 0 Dance Time. 10. O Light Music. 10.30 Close Down. GREYMOUTH aS YAR, 940k.c. 319m. 7. Oam. Breakfast Session. 9.0 Morning Programme. 10. 0-10.10 Weather Report. 10.10-10.30 Devotional Service. 12. O Luncheon Programme. 1. Op.m. Weather Report. 1.30-2. 0 Educational Session from 8YA. 3. O Afternoon Programme, 4.30 Weather and Shipping News. Recordings. Dinner Music. 30 News and Reports. O Louis Levy and Orchestra. 6 Mittens (Episode 42). -18 Dance Melodies. 45 oe Crimson Trail (Episode 8. 0 Band Music, with interludes, 8.30 Notable British Trials (Episode 3, Trial of James Bloms field Rush). 8.45 Musical Comedy and Light Opera. 9.15 Variety. 9.30 Meditation Music. 10. O Close Down. AYO BINED 1140 k.c. 263 m. 5. 0-6. Op.m. Recordings. 7..0 After Dinner Music. 8. 0 "The Immortal Ninth." Symphonic programme, feature in, at 8.14 p.m., " Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125, the "Choral" © Symphony (Beethoven), played by the Philadelphia Orchestra, with soloists and chorus, conducted by Leopold Stokowski, 9.20 Highlights from Grand Opera, 10. O Melody and Humour. 10.30 Close Down. These programmes are correct as we go te press. Any last-minute alterations will be announced over the air.