WEDNESDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 8, 18 August 1939, Page 25

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AUGUST 23

NY, AUCKLAND 650 k.c. 462 m. 7. Oa.m. Physical exercises 7.10 9. 0 10. 0 10.15 11. 0 11.10 11.20 12. 0 BREAKFAST SESSION Close down Devotional Service, conducted by Rev. Bernard M. Chrystall Selected recordings Talk to women by "Margaret" Talk, under the auspices of the National Council of Women Selected recordings Community singing, relayed from the Mayfair Theatre 1.30 p.m. Lunch music Selected recordings Running commentary on Representative Rugby Football Match, Auckland versus Canterbury, relayed from Eden Park 8.15 Sports results

4. 0 Special weather report for farmers 4.30 Sports results 5. O Children’s session, conducted by " Cinderella" and " Peter" 6.0 DINNER MUSIC: "Rigoletto" Selection (Verdi); "Two Guitars" (Traditional); "I Love the Moon’ (Rubens); "The Quaker Girl’ (Monckton); "The Musical Bow’ (Heykens); "Cheek to Cheek" (Berlin); "The Maid Under the Lime Tree’ (Berger); "A Supper With Suppe" (arr. Morena); ‘‘Ballgeflushter"’ (Helmound); "From the Land of the Sky Blue Water’ (Cadman); "Sweetheart" (Strauss); "Songe D’Amour Apres Le Bal" (Czibulka); "First Love’ (Michiels); ‘La Paloma’ (Yradier); "Serenade" (Elgar); "Song of My Dreams" (Friml). 7. 0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS : 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.40 TALK, under the auspices of the Government Youth Centre 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Pro Arte Quartet, ist, 3rd and 4th Movements of "Quartet in G Major, Op. B45 No. 3 Fucks vongsge- eyen 8.15 Kay Christie (contralto), ina recital of lieder by Brahms and Schubert 8.27 Mary Martin (violin) and Barbara Coyle (piano), "Sonata in G Major"..Bach

8.44 9.45 10. 0 11. 0 Recordings: Oxford Ensemble, Quartet for Clarinet and Strings in E Flat Major (Op. 8, No. 4) ...... Karl Stamitz Weather report and station notices Recorded feature: Coronets of England: The Life of Charles II., the Merry Monarch Hans Busch Orchestra, "Serenade" ....... Deltour "Blanca Flor" ...... Mateo Humoresk Melodios, ea San eee .--» Hildach "Speak to Me of Love" Lenoir "Poor Old Snell." A Cockney sketch featuring Mabel Constanduros. (A B.B.C. production) MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY CLOSE DOWN UIN2K Sorte sim 5. 7.0 8. 0 9.34 10. 0 10,30 0-6.0 p.m. Light musical programme After dinner music Band music, with vocal interludes, and at 8.30, "™Here’s a Queer Thing " Melody and merriment, by Jessie Matthews, Frank Crumit and The London Piano- Accordion Band ‘Personal Column" A Lang-Worth feature programme: "Suite Orientale" (Popy), "‘Apache Dance" (Offenbach), ‘* Whisperings of Love" (Von Blon), "Media Luz" (Donato) Light recitals, featuring Raphael, the concertina virtuoso Close down

DAY WELLINGTON 570 k.c. 526 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. 0 Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9.0 Close down 10. 0 Weather report for aviators Summary of scores in the 3rd Cricket Test Match, England vy. West Indies 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28to0 10.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 Talk to women by "Margaret" 12. 0 Community singing (relayed from the Grand Opera House) 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators 1.10 Continuation of community (approx.) singing 1.30 Selected recordings (approx.) 2. 0 Classical music 2.30 BROADCAST OF PROCEEDINGS FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 5.30 Children’s session, conducted by Aunt Molly 6. 0 DINNER SESSION:

"Melodies of Mexico" (arr. Kohler); "Extase’’ (Ganne); "Serenade" .(Leoncavallo); "March of the Marionettes’ (Savino de Rose); "The Canary" (Poliakin); "There Comes the Guard’ (Sprinzel); "My Song For You,’ "With All My Heart’ " (Spoliansky); "Castanets W alts" (Richartz); "The Lime Tree of Potsdam" (Sprinzel); "‘Marigold" (Mayerl) ; "From Meverbeer's Treasure House’. (Urbach); ""Musette’’ (Peter); "Give Me Your Heart -To- night" (Stolz); ‘Neptune March" :(dvory); "Dance in A Major, No. 7" (Joachim); ‘I Drive Out in My Little Limousine" (Cowler); ‘Love's Wonder" (Doelle). 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICEFAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.28 to 7.30. Time signals 7.30 BROADCAST OF PROCEEDINGS FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 40.30 Dance music by Bobbie Girvan (approx.and his Sweet Swing Band (relayed from the Majestic Cabaret) 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN QV WELLINGTON 840 k.c. 357m. 2.30 p.m. Classical music 8.0 Sporis results Selected recordings 3.28 to3.30 Time signals Weather teport for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago 4 @ Sports resulte

5. 0 5.30 6. 0 7. 0 7.30 8.10 8.31 Children’s session Light musical programme Close down After dinner music : Talk by our Gardening Experté "For the Home Gardener " A programme featuring Gladys Moncrieff (Australia’s Queen of Song) Recording: Viennese Waltg Orchestra, "Happy Vienna" (arr. Walter)} Gladys Moncrieff; at the piano, Gil Dech: "Say that You are Mine" (Kerrich), "I Heard a Forest Praying" (de Rose), "At Parting" (Rogers), "O Dry, Those Tears" (del Riego) Recordings: Decca Salon Orchestra, "Frasquita — Serenade"™ (Lehar), "Melody in F"* (Rubinstein) Buccaneers Octet, "The Male Chorus" (Geoffrey O’Hara), "Hunting Song ™ (De Koven), "Ma Little Banjo" (Dichmont)

8.37 8.40 The London Palladium Orchestra, "Japanese Carnival" (de Basque) Talk by Dr. Guy H. Scholefield: " World Affairs " Weather report and station notices " Singapore Spy." A drama of the world’s greatest fortress, produced by James Raglan a |

9.32 A dramatic feature: "Thrills" Life has its thrills for all of us, There are moments of ecstasy, periods of tense excitement, and times of exhilaration, when every nerve and fibre of our being thrills, 9.47 "The Moonstone." Episode 6 of Wilkie Collins’ dramatic thriller, presented for radio by George Edwards and Company 10. O Dance music by Bobby Girvan and his Sweet Swing Band (relayed from the Majestic Cabaret) 10.30 Close down

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\V/ CHRISTCHURCH ¥ 720 k.c. 416m. 7. Qa.m. Physical. exercises 7.19 BREAKFAST SESSION 9.0 Close down 10. O Selected recordings 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Selected recordings 11. 0 Talk to women by "Margaret" 11.10 Women’s session, conducted by Mrs. L. E. Rowlatt 11.39 Selected recordings 412. 0 Lunch music 2. Op.m. Selected recordings 3. 0 Classical music 4.0 Frost and special weather forecast, and light musical programme 4.30 Sports results 5. O Children’s session, conducted by the Organiser, and, at 5.45 p-m., a talk by J. Morrison: "The Public Service," a Career for Boys 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "Raymond Overture’ (Thomas); ‘‘Minuet Sicilienne’ (Squire and Hart); Polonaise, No. 2" (Liszt); "Folly to be Wise" Selection: "Scenes Pitloresques" (Massenet); "‘Londonderry Air" (arr. Bridge); ‘"‘La Feria" (Lacome); "Serenata" (Moszkowski); "Operatica"’ (arr. Squire); ‘La Vida Breve" (Falla). | 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH. OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.20 Addington Stock Market report 7.32 WINTER COURSE TALK: G. T. J. Wilson: "LIFE IN EARLY CANTERBURY " 8.0 Concert by the CHRISTCHURCH MALE VOICE CHOIR Conductor: Dr. J. C. Bradshaw > Accompanist: Noel Newson Choir Soloists: T. G. Rogers (tenor) and R. Lake (baritone) Assisting Artists: Ailsa Nicol (soprano), Valmai Moffett (cellist) Choir items: "Beleagured," Part Song: Sullivan "Russian Lover," Part Song Chas. Wood "How Merrily We Live," Madrigal .. Michael East " Gifts," Part Song. . Bairstow "Peddlar’s Song," Part Song Albino "Blow, Blow," Part Song Noble " Landerkennung," Cantata Grieg (Relayed from the Hall) 8. O Weather forecast and station notices 9.5 READINGS, by 0. -L. -Simmance, with music "Pickwick Papers," by Charles Dickens | "Poems," by Thomas Hood

Music: Artur Schnabel and the Pro Arte Quartet, "Piano Quintet in E Flat Major" ........ Schumann _ London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Heart Wounds" from "Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34" Grieg 9.40 Recording: Mischa Levitski (pianoforte) and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Landon Ronald, "Concerto No. 1 in E Flat MNES. avec teks See It is a little difficult to believe that the Pianoforte Concertos of Liszt were once received with suspicion and even: dislike. There was one eminent pianist and conductor of a bygone generation who expressed his contempt for this Concerto by calling it, on every opportunity, ‘" The Triangle Concerto with pianoforte accompaniment." Listeners will not fail to notice the rather prominent part accorded to the Triangle, which gave some excuse for that contemptuous title. But any Concerto good enough for Berlioz to conduct at°its premiere fs good enough for people of reasonable culture, 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN SIVA CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. O After dinner music 8. 0 Leaves from the Diary of a Film Fan. : 8.32 A fantasy in blue 8.38 The White ’ Blackbirds 8 Organ soli by. Horst . Schimmelpfennig Dance session: ‘** Hits of 1936" Light recitals Close down ~ ne? s w Soo &

Source" (Delibes); "The Hobgoblins’ Story" (Brecht); ‘Waltz Medley’; ‘‘Saltarella" (Vieuxtemps); " Cocktail’; "Suite Algerienne"’ (Saint-Saens); "Echoes of the Volga" (Ritter); "A Summer Evening’ (Waldteufel). 7. © NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.30 Our Motor Expert: " HELPFUL HINTS TO MOTORISTS." 8. 0 "Mittens." A tale of the Turf, presented by George Edwards and Company "Thrilling" is the word to describe the Struggle of the owners of Mittens to outwit the scoundrels Brent and Grimway, The vision they have is of happiness for themselves, and the Melbourne Cup for Mittens, 8.15 "The Bold Bad Buccaneers," in humour and harmony 8.38 "The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s " The craziest classroom on record. Have some fun at the schoolmaster’s expense with Stanforth, Bothamley, and, of course, Greenbottle, 8.40 TALK, by G. S. Thomson: "ON CATCHING FISH" (1) The first of a series of talks about fishing, particularly in New Zealand. Mr, Thomson will give a good deal of information about Shee Zealand fish and methods of catching them. 9. 0 Weather report and station notices 9.5 "Westward Ho!" Charles Kingsley’s famous story of adventure on the High Seas, presented for radio by George Edwards and Company — 918 "THRILLS," a dramatic feature 9.31 Exploits of the Black Moth: "AFFAIRS OF STATE." Produced by James Raglan and Company | Once again Sergeant Smithers of the C.1.D, has a brush with his old enemy the Black Moth, modern Robin Hood of the night, Criminals fear the Black Moth more than they fear the police. Yet the police would dearly like to get their hands. on him. Smithers suspects Denis Carcroft, debonair racing car driver, but to prove it -to prove it-that is the difficulty. 10. 0 An hour of modern dance music featuring the orchestras of Ben Pollack, Clyde McCoy and Freddy Martin, with vocal | interludes by Bing Crosby | 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN |@QYV©) BUNEDIN 1140 k.c, 263m, 5. 06.0p.m. Recordings 6. 0 Close down 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 An orchestral programme, featuring at 8.16 p.m., ** Triple Concerto in C Major Op. 56" (Beethoven), soloists: Richard Odnoposoff (violin), Stefan Auber (‘cello), and Agelica Morales (piano) 9.15 Highlights from grand opera 40. 0 Music and merriment 10.30 Close down

ANY DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for 7. 0 7.10 9. 0 10. 0 10.15 10.50 12. 0 aviators Physical exercises BREAKFAST SESSION Close down Weather report for aviators Selected recordings Devotional Service Talk to women by " Margaret " South Dunedin community sing. (Relayed from Mayfair Theatre) 1. Op.m. Weather report for 1.10 aviators Community singing (approx.) 1.30 2. 0 3.15 4.0 4.30 5. 0 6. 0 Weather forecast Lunch music Selected recordings TALK by the A.C.E. Home Science Tutorial Section, "THE GOLDMINE IN YOUR GARDEN " 3.30 Sports results Classical music Weather report and special frost forecast Light musical programme 4.45 Sports results Children’s hour, conducted by Big Brother Bill and the Travel Man DINNER MUSIC: "Zampa’ Overture (Herold); ‘Shadow Waltz" (Warren); "The Dancing Clock" (Ewing); "St. Mary’s Chimes" (Strauss); "Spanish Dance, No. {" (Moszkowski); "Wake Up and Dream’ (Porter); ‘La

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August 23

an INVERCARGILL 680k.c. 441m. 7. 0-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session 41. 0 Recordings 412. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon session 6. 0 Light music 6.30 Children’s session: ‘‘ Robin Hood and the Maid of Nottingham "’ 6.45 Tunes of the day 6.16 Robinson Crusoe 6.30 The Gauchos 6.45 "The Rich Uncle from Fiji" 7. 0 After dinner music 7.30 Station announcements 8, 0 Gardening talk 8.15 "Singapore Spy" 8.42 A Black Interlude 9. 0 His Lordship’s Memoirs: " Black Magic " 9.30 Swing session (compere, Frank Beadle) 40. 0 Close down SYA GREYMOUTH 940k.c. 319m. 7. O.a.m. Breakfast session 8. 0 Morning programme 40. 0 Weather report 40.10-10.30 Devotional Service 42. 0 Luncheon music 4. Op.m. Weather report 2.0 Close down 8.0 Afternoon programme 4.30 Weather and shipping news 6. O Children’s session 5.46 "Westward Ho" 6. 0 Dinner music 30 News and reports 7. 0 Louis Levy and his Orchestra 7 "Marie Antoinette" (episode 11) 7.20 Programme of hits and encores 4s ‘The Crimson Trail" (episode 27) . O Featuring Musique Militaire 30 Concluding episodes of " Search for a Playwright" O Theatre land .80 Meditation music © Close down QV) AAP tes. 7. af am. Breakfast session 41 Light music 12 OF eG Lunch session O Light musical programme 5.30 Uncle Charlie and Aunt Nin 6. 0 The Japanese houseboy

6.15 Khyber (12) 650 Stortford Lodge market report 7. O After dinner music 8. 0 cane instrumental and vocal numpers 8.12 Talk: "Historic N.Z. Estates,’’ "The Deans of Riccarton," Douglas Cresswell 8.30 Dance music 9. 0 Operatic and symphonic excerpts 10. 0 Close down QYN BELSON 920k.c. 327m. 7. Op.m. "John Halifax, Gentleman " (first episode) 7.15 Light music 8.0 "What Listeners Like," an hour of popular items 9. 0 Band programme 9.30 Eb and Zeb 9.40 Light music 10.0 Close down VW WELLINGTON 2 990 k.c. 303m. 7. Op.m. Cocktails 7.35 Here’s a Queer Thing 7.45 The Kingsmen 8.0 "Is New Zealand Rugby Deteriorating?" T. G. Corkill, 1925, All Black and utility back of the great Hawke’s Bay ‘" Magpies " | 8.15 Records at random | 840 2YD trailer 8.45 Rhythm is our business 8. 0 Stars of the musical firmament 9.20 Syd Walker Wants to Know 9.30 Night Club, a cabaret show with Henry King and his Orchestra 10. 0 Close down |Z AUCKLAND 1250k.c. 240m. 3, Op.m, Musical programme 5. 0 Light orchestral and popular items 6.45 News, announcements 7. 0 Orchestral and organ selections 7.45 In search of a playwright (episode 1) 8.0 Peep into filmland with " Billie" 9.0 Swing music 9.20 Hawaiian and popular melodies 10. 0 Close down