THURSDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 11, 8 September 1939, Page 31

THURSDAY

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SEPTEMBER 14

Is AUCKLAND 650 k.c. 462 m. 7. Oam. Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. O Devotional Service, conducted . by Rev. T. H. C. Partridge | 10:15 Selected recordings | 411. 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 Church 12.50 Lunch music 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: "WHAT PEOPLE ASK ABOUT POTS AND PANS" eg 3.45 Light musical programme 4. 0 Special weather report for farmers 4.30 Sports results 5. O Children’s session, conducted by "Cinderella" and " Uncle Alex" 5.30 Gladys Moncrieff will sing and talk to the children (rebroadcast 2YA) 6.0 DINNER MUSIC: "Amina" Egyptian Serenade (Lincke); "By the Sleepy Lagoon’ (Coates); ‘Minuet in D’ (Mozart); "Lazy Night" (Coates); *"" Love In Idleness’’ (MacBeth); "Longing" (Haydn 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 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 eo the Nineteenth Century, WilA liam Cobbett," by J. R. Morris William Cobbett was one of the great English characters, and his ‘‘ Rural Rights " is a classic. He was born in 1776, the son of a small farmer, and the grandson of a day labourer. Despite his radicalisin, | he was about as much like the traditional John Bull as any man in history. He loathed "‘ Whigs" and ‘ Mock Gentlefolk," but loved the poor and fought his hardest for the’ farmer and the farm labourer. His style, homely and direct, has never been surpassed for its appeal to the average man. 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Mr. Chalmers, K.C.: "THE

CASE OF NORMAN OSBORNE (chapter 2) 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, 815 "Wandering with the West | Wind" Footloose, though seldom fancy-free, we wander the highways and byways of the world with that cheery soul, the Way- | farer. 8.45 "The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s" 9. 0 Weather report and station notices 9. 5 Recorded TALK: "JAMES BUSBY, HIS SERVICE AND HIS TRAGEDY," by Eric Ramsden A talk on the very early days of New Zealand. The first of a series of talks by a New Zealand journalist in Sydney who has had access to new material. 9.20 Studio concert by the Auckland Artillery Band, conducted by Captain George Buckley The Band, "Zampa" Overture . Herold "Recollections of Bellini" Selection ...... arr. Rimmer 9.31 Dad and Dave 9.44 The Band (Jack Cleague, soloist), "The Emperor " — Trombone BP Be Ry oe ee 9.48 Richard Crooks with fhe Balladeers and Banjo, "Camptown Races" . Foster 9.51 The Band, "Tancredi" Overture Rossini " Harlequin" March Rimmer 10. 0 Jan Savitt and his orchestra: Modern dance music by the dispensers of shuffle rhythm, with instrumental interludes by the Milt Herth Trio 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN M4 AUCKLAND 880 k.c. 341 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 Chamber music hour: Concertgebouw Trio of Amsterdam, "Scherzo and Andante" from "Trio in D Minor" (Mendelssohn) 8. 8 Mark Raphael (baritone), "1 Dare Not Ask a Kiss," ‘The Jealous Lover," ‘* Music When Soft Voices Die." "Love’s Philosophy " (Quilter) 8.14 Ossip Gabrilowitsch (piano) and Flonzaley Quartet, "f Quintet in E Flat Major" Op. 44 (Schumann) 8.46 Elizabeth Schumann (soprano), " Lullaby," "The Vain Suit,’ " Nightingale," ‘The Huntsman" (Brahms) 852 Fritz Kreisler and Franz Rupp (violin aud piano), Andante Scherzose, Piu Allegretto," from " Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23." (Beethoven) 9. 0 Classical recitals 10. 0 Variety show 10.30 Close down

6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. O Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. 0 Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28t010.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 Talk to women by "Margaret" | 12. 0 Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators 1.30 EDUCATIONAL SESSION: "The Changing World," by the School Reporter 1.42 "The Merry-go-Round " Episode 11 1.55 "Man Makes His Home" (8), by A. E. Nodwell 2.13 "Adventure in Five. Continents" (6), by L. B. Quartermain | 2.30 BROADCAST OF PROCEEDINGS FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 5.30 Children’s session, conducted by Uncle Peter, featuring Gladys Moncrieff (Australia’s: Queen of Song), with. Gil. Dech at the piano. (Rebroadeast by 1YA, 3YA and 4YA,_ also 4YZ and 2YH) 6. 0 DINNER SESSION: "Fra _ Diavolo" (Auber); "You're Alt I Need" (Jurmann); * *‘Mikado" Selection (Sul-. livan); "‘Song of the Vagabonds"’ (Friml); "The Good Old Days" (Koek); ‘Tina’ (Rubens); "Nautical Moments’ (arr. Winter); "Etude, No. 7" (Chopin); "La Cima- | rosiana’ (arr. Malpiero): ‘‘Radetzky March (Johann Strauss). 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx. ) 7.28to7.30 Time signals BROADCAST OF PROCEEDINGS FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1030 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN QV WELLINGTON 840k.c, 357m. 2.30 p.m. Classical music DVN WELLINGTON 570 k.c. 526 m. | | | 3. 0 Selected recordings Sports results

3.30 5.30 6. 0 7. 0 7.30 Weather report for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago 4.0 Sports results Children’s session, conducted by Uncle Peter Light musical programme Close down After dinner music "Who’s Who and What’s What?" A ramble in the news by Coranto Concert programme, "What I Like.": A_ session with the world’s workers. His favourite items arranged and presented by A Fishmonger "The Rich Uncle from Fiji" (episodes 79 and 80) Wherein Uncle Jim, otherwise Mr. James Fordyce, of Fiji, keeps himself, his niece and nephew, and two servants in comparative comfort, with the assistance of the pawnbroker, and his own account of the excellence of a. gold mine which he owns in Fiji. 9.25 9.37 9.43 10. 0 10.30 "Just a Job of Work." An interview with an Astronomer Weather report and station notices Recital programme, Robert Henry (pianist) presents a group of works of modern British composers: "Agility" (Colombatti), "Before Dawn" (Roy Agnew), "Valse Fantasque" (Concert Etude for piano) (Eric Cundell), "Memories of Sapphire" (Granville Bantock) Recordings: A Recital by Nancy Evans (contralto), " Blaweary " (Gurney), " You Are My Sky " (Gurney), "The Water Mill" (Vaughan Wil- liams), "How Can the Tree But Wither?" (Vaughan Williams) Frisca Quartet (instrumental) "Cherry Ripe" (arr. Frank Bridge), "Molly on the Shore" (arr. Grainger) Mark Raphael (baritone) with the composer at the piano, presents a group of songs by Quilter, "Go, Lovely Rose," "O, The Month of May," " To Daisies," "Song of the Blackbird," "Weep You No More" The Queen’s Hall Orchestra, conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood, "Mock Morris" .,. Grainger Music, mirth, and melody Close down

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SY CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416m. 7. Oam. Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. O Selected recordings 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Selected recordings 11. O@ Talk to women by " Margaret " 11.10 Selected recordings 11.15 Talk, under the auspices of Christchurch Branch of the National Council of Women 11.30 Selected recordings 42. O Lunch music 2. Op.m. Selected recordings 2.30 TALK, prepared by the Association for Country Education, Home Science Tutorial Section: "WHAT PEOPLE ASK ABOUT POTS AND PANS" 3. @ Classical music 4. 0 Frost and special weather | forecast and light musical programme 4.30 Sports resutts 5. O Children’s session 5.30 Rebroadcast 2YA:. Gladys : Moncrieff sings and talks to the children 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "Doll Waltz’ (Boyer); "Doll anu showman’ (Siede); "Serenity" (Grant); "Old Folks At Home" (Foster); "The First Letar (Reggov); "Shadow Dance’ (Yoshi | Morgenblatter’’ (Strauss); "Twa | Por To-night" Medley (Rev el); "The Danube | and the ine" (Melichar): "Down in the.| Forest" (Ronald); ‘Danse Espagnole Spanish Dance (Granados); "The Merry Teddy" (Pata); "La Tosca" Potpourri (Puc cini Tavan); "The Cradle"’ (Micheli); *‘Serenade’ \ (Stra uss); "Poeme™ (Pibich); "Dreaming Bells" (Krome). 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER'S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.140 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.35 TALK, under the auspices of Canterbury Agricultural College: Discussion by College staff: "FORAGE CROPS | FOR NEXT WINTER" | 8: 0 "The Woman in White." A 4 dramatisation of Wilkie Collins’ thriller by George Edwards and Company 3.14 Recording: The Victor Olof Sextet, " Supplication " : Haydn Wood 8.17 "Night Nurse." Drama in a : — hospital. A James Ragproduction a

8.30 Recording: The Victor Olof Sextet, "The Darset Daisy" Melvin-Bath 8.33 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. 8.45 Recording: The Victor Olof Sextet, "Handel in the Strand" Grainger 8.48 "Personal Column." Drama from the agony column of a newspaper 9. 0 Weather forecast and station notices 9. 5 Reserved 9.20 DANCE MUSIC 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN BV CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. 6. O-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 Band music, with humorous inte: ludes 832 Melodies of Robert Burns 8.41 Sidonie Goossens (harpiste) 8.46 Songs of the Fair, by Eastnoyy Martin 8.54 Marta Eggerth, songstress 9. 0 Musica) comedy moments 9.30 David Copperfield (episode 2! 9.43 Songs of love 10. OQ Merry minutes 10.30 close down

aN 4 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 " Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for 1.30 2.30 4. 0 4.30 5. 0 5.30 6. 0 aviators Weather forecast EDUCATIONAL SESSION: "The Changing World," by the School Reporter 1.42 "The Merry-go-Round " Episode 11 1.55 "Man Makes His Home" (8), by A. E. Nodwell 2.13 "Adventure in Five Continents" (6), by L. B. Quartermain Selected recordings 3.30 Sports resulls Classical music Weather report and special frost forecast Light music 4.45 Sports results Children’s session, conducted by Big Brother Bill Gladys Moncrieff (Australia’s Queen of Song), sings and talks to the children (rebroadcast from 2YA) DINNER MUSIC: ‘Dorothy’ Selection (Cellier); ‘Until’ (Sanderson); "Birthday March’ (Kahne); "Where The Woods Are Green’ Brodsky); ‘Black and Tan’ (Lowthian); "Cuckoo In The Clock" (Collins); "Funiculi, Punicula™’ (Denza); "The Sphinx’ (Popy); "Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers’ (Jessel); "From Opera To Opera’ (Schestak); "My Chin Chin Lu" (Scotto); "The Cabaret Girl’ Selection

(Kern); "Military March in E Flat’ (Schubert): "A Girl Like Nina’ (Abraham). 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 Classical and orchestral programme The E.I.A.R. Symphony Orchestra, Turin, conducted by Mo. D. Amfitheatrof, "Prince Igor" Overture Borodin-Glazounov 8.10 Vladimir Rosing (tenor), Songs of famous’ Russian composers, "Oh, Do Not Sing Again," "The Island," "In the Silent Night," "Spring Waters " Rachmaninoff "At the Ball," "Again as Rerote= 5 ccanS Tschaikovski 8.22 The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Albert Coates, "Eight Russian Fairy Tales " Liadoff 8.35 Man Through the Ages: "The World War, 1914-16" A historical panoramic serial written by James J. Donnelly, and produced by the National Broadcasting Service Weather report and station notices 9.5 Joseph Szigeti and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 19 Prokofieff Perhaps the most brilliantly gifted of all the contemporary Russian composers, Serge Prokofielf, is a difficult man to classify, because of the bewildermg diversity of styles in which he writes. His early works have been called *‘cubistic music’; his later works, in many cases, seem arid and forced in comparison, But the superb craftsmanship of this exquisitely lyrical Violin Concerto is a thing to marvel at. 9.25 Amelita Galli-Curci (soprano) | "Russian Nightingale Song" Alabieff "Chant Hindou " Rimsky-Korsakov 931 "MUSIC FROM THE THEATRE" Memories of the ballet "Le Coq D’Or." To the music of Rimsky-Korsakov 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN age Pe aN ©) 1140 k.c. 263 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. O After dinner music 8.0 "Rosalie and Her Romances " 8. Random recordings, a light vartety session, introducing at 9 p.m. . "Night Nurse," and at 9.30, " Homestead on the Rise" 10.0 tn order of appearance: Frances Langford (soprano), Waiter Porschmann and Fred Dompke (accordion dno), Tins Rossi tenor) 10.30 lose down

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¥ » aw INVERCARGILL 680 k.c. 441 m. 7. 0-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session 11. 0 12. 0 Recordings Luncheon session 1.30-2.30 p.m. Educational session, re5. 0 5.30 6. 0 6.15 6.30 6.45 7. 0 7.30 8. 0 10. 0 broadcast from 2YA Dance music Miss Gladys Moncrieff, in a special children’s broadcast Light music Personal Column The Mills Brother: "The Moonstone’ After dinner music Station announcements Finals of the New Zealand Amateur Boxing Championships, relay from the Civic Theatre Close down SCAR abr tl 7. Oam. Breakfast session 9. 0 Morning programme 10. 0-10.10 Weather report 12. 0 Luncheon music 1. Op.m. Weather report 1.30-2.30 Educational session from 2YA 3. 0 4.30 5. 0 5.30 6. 0 6.30 7.0 iB. 7.32 7.45 7.48 8. 0 8.30 8.45 9. 0 9. 6 Afternoon programme Weather and shipping news Uncle Bren, with "David and Dawn" This and that Dinner music News and reports Erich Olschewski and his orchestra "The Circle of Shiva" "Rhythm all the time" Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro "Dad and Dave" Artur Schnabel (piano) "Moments Musicaux’"’ (Schubert) In the sports club Hawaiian echoes | Daily Herald contest melodies The Mystery Club: "The Missing Colonel " There were popular (past hit tunes) 10.0 Close down Qn 1 oe ae m. 7. 0-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session 11. 0 Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch session 5. 0 5.30 ~. ee "8. 0 6.165 6.45 7. 0 7.15 8.24 9. 0 9.15 9.30 9.40 10. 0 Light musical programme Gladys Moncrieff, " Australia’s | Queen of Song," sings and talks to | the children (rebroadcast from 2XA) "Pinto Pete" Light musie Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay "Dad and Dave" After dinner music Inspector Scott of Scotland Yard Orchestral and vocal selections "Little Birds": A study in psychology by W. Graeme-Holder Light variety The Mills Brothers Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers Reginald Dixon (organ) Close down

QVIN ste nm. 7. Op.m. Light music 8. 0 9. 0 9.15 9.30 10. 0 Concert programme: Chamber music, introducing ‘* Quartet in F Major "’ (Mozart), Budapest String Quartet; ‘Etudes Nos. .7-12 (Chopin), Raoul Koczalski (piano) "His Last Plunge" (chapter 25) Ilumorous interlude Dance music in strict tempo Close down OVS tte tae 7. Op.m. Premiere: The wWweek’s new 7.35 7.46 8.20 8.40 5 releases The Crimson Trail Ensemble: Orchestral combination from famous rendezvous The Old-Time The-Ayter: "Joseph of the Pure Heart,’"’ or "He Need Not Have Done It"’ 2YD singers 2YD trailer Sportsmen’s Intelligence Test: Try out your knowledge. on these ten questions on various phases of all types of sport Piccadilly on Parade Console-ation: The organist’s point of view Youth must have its swing Close down 2 AUCKLAND 1250 k.c. 240m, 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular 6.45 7. 0 7.45 8. 0 8. 0 9.30 recordings News, announcements Sports session: Bill Hendry a Life of Cleopatra’ (episode ) Concert session Humorous numbers Western songs 10. 0 Close down