Boys and Girls...

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 3, 14 July 1939, Page 13

Boys and Girls...

This corner, all you young folks, is for you and your interests. This is where we tell you, week by week, about what is being put over the air for you, just as the grown-ups have their own pages with their own programmes. So make sure that you, too, "Look Before You Listen."

Your Favourite Serials: "Coral Cave": Monday, 1YA 5.40 p.m; Friday, 2YA 5.40 p.m. " Uncle Tom’s Cabin": Monday, 3YA 5 p.m. " Richard the Lionheart": Tuesday, 2YH 5.30 p.m. "Westward Ho!": Saturday, 2YH 5.45 p.m. " Robin Hood": Monday, 3ZR 5 p.m. " Paradise Plumes and Head Hunters": Tuesday, 3ZR S5p.m.

" David and Dawn"; Tuesday, 4YZ 5.30 p.m.; Thursday, 3ZR 5p.m.; 4YZ 5.30 p.m. "Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen": 1ZB, 2ZB, 3ZB, 4ZB, at 6.15p.m., Monday, Wednesday, Thursday. Empire Children’s Hour? The B.B.C. Empire Service Director (J. C. S. Macgregor) wants to know if listeners would like an Empire children’s hour. In England the Children’s Hour draws a bigger fan mail than any other feature, and there is plenty to show that it is popular in New Zealand. Mr. Macgregor would like to receive a lot of letters asking him to start a service for the whole Empire. Crickets on the Air Bryan O’Brian, the ZB children’s broadcaster, is keenly interested in animals, bird life, and natural history. Knowing this, his listeners send him their own experiences in these fields, ranging from tales of pit ponies in the Welsh coal mines of fifty years ago, to the story of a little boy who last week found a strange insect in his garden,

But that is not all. Bryan also has many live specimens brought to him at the studio, including hedgehogs, lizards, "walking-sticks," a turtle, crickets (which were broadcast), budgerigars, parrots, cater pillars, grubs, and chrysalids. He is also called upon to advise upon the ills of everything from sick budgerigars to dying goldfish. Twice in one day he was handed dead budgerigars in the hope that he might be able to discover the cause of their death. Another day he was handed a dead sparrow-hawk which had been responsible for much destruction amongst local birds. So you will see it is not so easy to be a big brother of the air. "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" Have you ever heard about Topsy, the little negro girl who "just growed?" As many of you know, she is one of the children in "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," the story of which has been read and loved by children for ever so long. If you tune in to 3YA Christchurch in the Children’s Hour on Mondays you will be able to hear it for yourself and feel, too, that you are taking part in it.