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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 8, 18 August 1939, Page 31

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1 VW, AUCKLAND 650 k.c. 462 m. 7. Oa.m. Physical exercises 7.10. BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. 0 . Devotional Service 10.15 Selected recordings 11. 0 Talk to women by "Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 12. 0 Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Mid-week Service, relayed from St. Matthew’s Anglican Church 12.50 Lunch music (continued) 2. 0 Selected recordings 2.30 Classical hour 3.15 Sports results 3.30 TALK, prepared by the Association for Country Education, Home Science Tutorial Section of the University of Otago: " Care of Food in the Home-Especially Milk " 3.45 Light musical programme 4. 0 Special weather report for farmers 4.30 Sports results 5. O Children’s session, conducted by " Cinderella," with, at 5.40, the special recorded feature: "Little Womca" 6.0 An _ interview with Olga ; Coelho, a Brazilian soprano who is well-known on the concert platforms of Paris, London, Berlin and Milan 6. 5 DINNER MUSIC: (approx.) "Pharaphrase of Paderewski’s Minuet" (arr. Kreisler) "Berceuse De Jocelyn" (Godard); Intermezzo", Op. 118, No. 2 (Brahms); "Memories of Sweden’’ (Heinecke); "No. More Heartaches, No More Tears’ (Wallace); "April Smiles’’ (Depret); ‘‘Serenade"’ (Schubert); "Chu Chin Chow’ Selection (Norton); "Wedding Dance Waltz" (Lincke); "Midnight, the Stars and You" (Connelly); "Ballade .in G-: Minor," Op. 118, No. 3 (Brahms); "Lysistrata Waltz’ (Lincke); "Aloha Oe’ (Liliuokalani); "Sweet Waltz Memories’ (Lumbye). 7. 0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.30 WINTER COURSE TALK: "Some Leaders of Reform in the 19th Century: Robert Owen," by H. R. Rodwell At a time when factory conditions in Britain were a _ scandal, Robert Owen (1771-1858) was an enlightened employer in the cotton industtfy, and his works at New Lanark became famous. He was one of the pioneers of Socialism. 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME "Mr. Chalmers, K.C.": "THE CARTWRIGHT CASE" (Chapter 3) _The_ barrister. who never fails; the barrister who never accepts a brief unless he is convinced of his client’s innocence; the barrister who uses detective methods to obtain his evidence; the barrister who never fails to secure a "not guilty " verdict for his client. Meet Royston Chalmers, K:C, :

8.15 "Wandering with the West Wind" Footloose, though seldom fancy-free, we wander the highways and byways of the world with that cheery soul, the Wayfarer. 8.45 "The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s" ~ Weather report and station notices — TALK: Memories of the ’Nineties (3), " Musical Evenings," by Isabel Cluett This will awaken memories in the minds of the middle-aged, and should be interesting to younger people as showing what mother and father, and grandmother and grandfather, used to like-or put up with. 9.30 9.43 9.46 9.49 10. 0 11. 0 Programme of recorded PIPE MUSIC Pipers of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, under the direction of Pipe-Major J. D. MacDonald, with chorus and military band, "The Gathering of the Clans" Pipe-Major Macintosh, "Pibroch O’Donald" (Old Scottish Air) ... Traditional Dad and Dave Pipes and Drums of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, "Eightsome Reel" Barbara Maurel (mezzosoprano), "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton " Spilman Pipes and Drums of H.M. 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, "Cock o’ the North" "Skye Boat Song "..Lawson Massed Pipe Bands at the Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo, "Marches, Strathspey and Reel " Dance music by the swing bands of Count Basie and Bob Crosby, with interludes by Paul Whitem-n and his Swing Wing .Group CLOSE DOWN UN 2K ore stm 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light musical programme 7. 0 8. 0 8.16 8.22 9. 0 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music Chamber music hour: Isolde Menges (violin), Arthur de _ Greef (piano), ‘Sonatina in G Minor Op. 137, No. 3" (Schubert) Lotte Lehmann (soprano) Lener (violin), Roth (viola), Hartman (‘cello), Hobday (string bass), Draper (clarinet), Hinchcliffe (bassoon), Brain (French horn). "Septet in E Flat Major" (Beethoven) Classical recitals Variety Close down ~

PAY a\ WELLINGTON (4 570 k.c. 526 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. O Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. O Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28to010.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 Talk to women by "Margaret" 12. O Lunch music

1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators 2. O Classical music 2.30 BROADCAST OF PROCEEDINGS FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 5.30 Children’s session for tiny tots 6. QO DINNER SESSION: "Amina" (Lincke); "By the Sleepy Lagoon" (Coates); "Minuet in D’’ (Mozart); "Lazy Night’ (Coates); "Love In Idleness"’ (Macbeth); "Longing" (laydn Wood); "Pique Dame’ (Tschaikovski); "Vivienne" (Finck); ‘Poppies’ (Moret); "Vienna Blood" (Strauss); "La Petite Tonkinoise’ (Christina); "Amoureuse" (Berger); ‘Fantasie Orientale’ (Lange); ‘The Love _ Letter Waltz’ (Stewart); "Under the Starlit Sky" (Roland). 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS: 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.28 to 7. 30 Time signals

SL 7.30 10.30 (approx.) 11. 0 BROADCAST OF PROCEEDINGS FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY CLOSE DOWN 2 ee a 5: 3. 0 3.30 5. 0 5.30 6. 0 7. 0 7.30 7.40 8.30 8.42 9.31 10. 0 10:30 2.30 p. m. Classical music Selected recordings Sports results Weather forecast for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago 4. 0 Sports results Children’s session for tiny ‘tots Light musical programme Close down After dinner music "Who’s Who and What’s What?" A ramble in the news by " Coranto " Talk by our Book Reviewer? "Books Grave and Gay" Popular programme "What I Like." A session with the ‘world’s workers. His favourite items arranged and presented by A DOCTOR "The Rich Uncle from Fiji" (episodes 73 and 74) "Just a Job of Work." Interview with a Flying Instructor Weather report and station notices A programme featuring Australia’s. Queen of Song, Gladys Moncrieff; Gil Dech at the piano: "Pale Moon" nein’, "The Hills of Home" (Fox), " For Love of You" (Vienna), " Badinage " (Herbert) Desmond Lavin (violin), May Hyam (violin) and Fanny McDonald (piano), "Hindoo Song" (Bemberg), "Festmarch" (Schumann), "Salut D’Amour " (Elgar): "The Mist of the Years." Devised and produced by John Gough. Music arranged by Ian White. A Scottish programme commemorating the last night of the old year, Hogmanay, the most inspiring of the Scottish festivals. (A B.B.C. production) Music, mirth and melody Close down :

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--- SV CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416m. 7. Qam. Physical exercises 710 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 Selected recordings | 11.15 Talk under the auspices of the Christchurch Branch of the National Council of Women 11.30 Selected recordings 72. 0 Lunch music 2. Op.m. Selected recordings 2.30 TALK, prepared by the Association for Country Education, Home Science Tutorial Section: " Care of Food in the Home-Especially Milk " 3. O 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 6.0 DINNER MUSIC: "Chal Romano" (Ketelbey); ‘‘Bolero in D Major" (Moszkowski); "Allegro" (Fiocco); "Children of Spring’ (Waldteufel); "‘Slavonic Dances, Nos. 8 and {6 (Dvorak); ‘"‘Hora Stacato’’ (Dinicu); ‘"‘Intermezzo’’ (Coleridge Taylor); ‘Passion Rose’ (Lehar); "The Fatthful Hussar’ (Frantzen); ‘"Cavatina’ (Raff); "An Eastern Wedding" (Josef Prychistal); "In a Country Lane" (Coates); "Lilac Time’ (Schubert-Clutsam); ‘Rose Marie" (Friml). 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S. DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.35 TALK, under the auspices of Canterbury Agricultural Col- lege, by A. H. Flay, B.Sc., M.Ag.Sc.: "LUCERNE GROWING" 7.50 Sheep survey 8.0 "The Woman in White." A dramatisation of Wilkie Collins’ thriller, by George Edwards and Company 8.14 Recordings: J. H. Squire Celeste Octet, "Moment Musicale" Schubert 8.17 "Night Nurse." Drama in a great hospital A James Raglan production 8.29 J. H. Squire Celeste Octet, "Intermezzo from ‘ Cavalleria Rusticana’" 0 © © orm

8.32 Dramatic feature: "THRILLS" (episode 21) 8.45 J. H. Squire Celeste Octet, "Serenade" ..... Moskowski 8.48 "Personal Column." Drama from the agony column of a newspaper 9. 0 Weather forecast and station ‘notices 9.5 TALK by H. Winston Rhodes: "Famous Men: Karel Capek and Ernest Toller" A talk on two of the most famous dramatists of the time, who died within the last few months. Karel Capek, a native of Czecho-Slovakia, is best known as author of "R.U.R." Toller, a German, is the author of ‘"‘ Masses and Men." 9.20 DANCE MUSIC 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN SIVA CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8.0 Band programme, featuring English regimental bands 8.32 Edna Best and Ivor Novello in an excerpt from "Murder in Mayfair" 8.37 Waltz time, and a harp 8.43 Chappel ballads 8.51 Fred Hartley (pianist) 8.57 Stanley Lupino: " Yes, No!" 8. 0 Famous melodies from light opera 9.30 David Copperfield (episode 18) 9.44 Celebrity session 10. 0 Merry moments 10.30 Close down .

ANY DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m. 6.50 a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. O Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9.0 Close down 10. O Weather report for aviators Selected recordings 10.15 Devotional Service 10.50 ‘Talk to women by " Margaret" 12. O Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators Weather forecast 2. 0 Selected recordings 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 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "Evensong" (Easthope Martin); "Au Bord Dune Source" (Liszt); "When Love Dies" (Cremieux); "Le Cygne’ (Saint-Saens); "Simonetta" (Curzon); "Peer Gynt Suite" (Grieg); "Whenever I Dream Of You" (Schimmelpfennig); "Serenade Spaniola, No. 4" (Jonescu Gaina); "Vienna Citizen" (Ziehrer); "Thousand and One Nights" (Strauss-Benedict); "Si Mes Vers Avaient Des Ailes" (Hahn); " Sunset"’ (Matt); "Mazurka’ (Kreuder); "German Dances" (Mozart). 7. 0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.30 GARDENING TALK 8. 0 A Classical Concert, featuring, at 9.5 p.m., Adolph Mann, visiting English pianist The New Symphony Openes~ | tra, conducted by Dr. Mal- | colm Sargent, ee y her erors oe Ase This Overture to Sardou’s play "Patrie" (Fatherland), was inspired by the sufferings of the composer’s country during its ordeal of the Franco-German war of 1870-71. Originally it exceeded anything that Bizet, a comparatively young man at the time, had hitherto composed, 8.14 Meda Paine (soprano), in songs by Grieg, "My Mind is Like a Peak Snow-crowned," "In a Boat," "The Princess," "A Vision," "The Old Mother " 8.25 The New Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Goossens, _ "En Saga" (a legend) Sibelius

8.37 Man Through the Ages: * JAPAN." A historical panoramic serial written by James J. Donnelly, and produced by the National Broadcasting Service 9. 0 Weather report and station notices 9. & Pianoforte recital by Adolph Mann (visiting English pianist) " Nocturne " Op. 48, No, 1 « Chopin "TIdylle" Op. 7, No. 1 : Medtner "Harp Song" . Adolph Mann "Capriccio" Op. 76, No. 2 Brahms "Viennese Dance" No, 2 Friedman-Gaertner 9.20 The New Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Goossens, "TIslamey " Oriental Fantasy Balakireff This work, originally written for the piano, was inspired by .the composer’s travels in the Caucasus, and it has been called a veritable ‘‘epic of the Orient," It was published in 1869, with a dedication to Nicholas Rubinstein, Its three themes have been called " Georgian’ (though one is quite Arabian) but they are in reality original, They have, however, the strong and brilliant Oriental colouring which has given a peculiar splendour to much Russian music, 9.28 Vladimir Rosing (tenor), -presents songs of famous Russian composers: "Lullaby " (from " Dream .of the Volga") ...... Arensky "Autumn" ...... Arensky "The Rose and the Nightingale" .. Rimsky-Korsakov "Southern Night " Rimsky-Korsakov 9.36 The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted, by Eugene Goossens, "Le Coq D’Or" Suite . Rimsky-Korsakov 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN ayy a} AE pie 5. 06.0p.m. Recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 "Rosalie and Her Romances " 8.30 Random recordings 9.0 "Night Nurse" 9.30 "The Homestead on the Rise" 10. O In order of appearance: Victorian Quartet, Gino Bordin (guitar), Clara Serena (contralto) 410.30 Close down These programmes are correct as we.go to press. Any last-minute alterations will be announced over the air. All programmes in this issue are copyright to the ‘"‘ New Zealand Listener," and may not be reprinted without permission.

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al Y 680k.c. 441 m. 7. 0-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session 41. 0 Recordings 12. 0-2.0 p.m, Luncheon session 5. O Dance music 6.30 Children’s session: "David and Dawn " 6.45 Light music 6.15 Personal column 6.30 Charlie Kunz at the piano 6.45 ‘The Woman in White" | 7. 0 After dinner music 7.30 Station announcements 8. 0 Book talk, by H. B. Farnall, City Librarian 8.15 New dance releases 8.45 ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame") 8. 0 Orchestral interlude 9.10 Relay of community sing from Civic Theatre 410. O Close down S22 GREYMOUTH 940k.c. 319m. 7. Oam. Breakfast session 8.0 Morning programme 10. 0-10.10 Weather report / 412. 0 Luncheon music / 1. Op.m. Weather report 2.0 Close down 3, 0 Afternoon programme 4.30 Weather and shipping news 6. 0 Children’s session: "David and Dawn " 6.30 This and that 6. 0 Dinner music 6.30 News and reports 7. 0 Regent Concert Orchestra 7.8 "Marie Antoinette" (episode 7.20 Roy Smeck and his Hawaiian enaders 7.23 Ray Kinney and Lani Mcintire and | his. Hawaiians / 7.26 The Moana sSerenaders 7.30 ‘‘Rhythm all the time" 7.43 Vintage valses 7.49 ‘Dad and Dave" 8.0 The Budapest String Quartet and | Benny Goodman (claronet), "Quintet in A Major" 8.25 In the sports club, interviewing Mr. K. Webb, New Zealand featherweight weight-lifting record holder 8.38 Phantasy on "Side by Side" 8.46 Merry melodies 8. 6 In the Mystery Club 9.30 Revival time (past hit tunes) 410. 0 Close down QV rl 760 k.c. 395m. 7. 0-8,0 a.m. Breakfast session 41. 0 Light music 22. est ne Lunch session 6. 0 Light musical programme 6.30 Uncle Ed and Aunt Gwen 6. 0 Pinto Pete 6.16 Light music 6.46 Dad and Dave 7. 0 After dinner music 7.16 Inspector Seott of Scotland Yard 8.0 Orchestral and light vocal selections 8.30 ‘Hollywood makes History," a recorded comedy burlesque 9. 0 Light variety 10. 0 Close down 2 y N 920k.c. 327m. 7. Op.m. Miscellaneous light music 8.0 Concert programme of chamber music introducing: ‘Sonata in F Major" (Beethoven), played by Busch (violin) and Serkin (piano); -_ 2 | ers | 4

9, 0 9.15 9.30 10. 0 " Grosse Fuge" (Beethoven), played by the Lener String Quartet ‘His Last Plunge" (22) Humorous interlude Dance music in correct tempo Close down OVD Soke Sam 7. Op.m. Ragtime marches on 7.36 7.46 8.20 8.40 8.45 9. & 9.20 9.35 The Crimson Trail Ensemble: Orchestral combination from famous rendezvous The Old-Time The-Ayter: "A Child of the Pits,’ or *"* Not Too Young to Die" 2YD singers 2YD trailer Khyber and Beyond (chapter 18) Piccadilly on Parade Console-ation, from the organist’s point of view Youth must have its Swing |Z AUCKLAND 1250 k.c. 240m. 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular 6.45 7. 0 7.45 8. 0 8.30" 9. 0 9.30 10, 0 selections News, announcements Sports session: "Bill" Hendry "The Life of Cleopatra" Western songs Mischa Levitzki and Fritz Kreisler Patricia Rossborough and the Comedy Harmonists Victor Silvester’s Ballroom Orchestra Close down