THURSDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 12, 15 September 1939, Page 31

THURSDAY

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VY AUCKLAND 650 k.c. 462 m. 7. Oa.m. Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. 0 Devotional Service, conducted by Rev. H. Isherwood 10.15 Selected recordings 41. 0 Talk to women by " Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 12. O Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Mid-Week Service, relayed from St. Matthew’s 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: "PLEASE CRITICISE THESE DIETS" 3.45 Light musical programme 4. 0 Special weather report for farmers 4.30 Sports results 6. 0 Children’s session, conducted by "Cinderella" and " Uncle Alex," with, at 5:40; the special feature: "Little Women," a dramatisation of the book by Louisa M. Alcott 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "To an Oriental God" (Lotter); "Temptation’ (Ancliffe); "Grinzing" (Benatzky); "When Grandmama was Twenty’ (Zeller); "Trop Tard’ (Aurelly); "Nights of Gladness" (Ancliffe); "Love Me’ (Washington); "Serenade" (Sanderson); ‘"Moontime’ (Collins): "The Opera Ball’ Waltz (Heuberger); "Remembrance" (Melfi); "A Visit to the Woodpecker" (Percy); "Les Sulphides" (Cissans); "Nocturne in E Flat’ (Chopin); "Anything for You’ (Hopkins); "Reminiscences of Friml"’ 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 Nineteenth Century: ‘John Ruskin,’" by S. Leatham John Ruskin was a great art critic and populariser of art in the Victorian era, and a master of prose. His influence is felt to-day both in the world of art and economics. 8.0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Mr. Chalmers, K.C.: "THE CASE OF NORMAN OSBORNE" (chapter 3) 8.15 "Wandering with the West Wind" Journeying the highways and bywavs of ee world with that cheery soul, the Wayarer. 8.45 "The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s " 9. 0 Weather report and station notices 9. 5 Recorded TALK: "SAMUEL MARSDEN IN AUSTRALIA," by Eric Ramsden

9.20 BAND PROGRAMME Grand massed. bands at the Leicester Brass Band Festival, "Round the Camp Fire" — Fantasia ........ Maynard 9.26 Frank Biffo and his Brass Quintet, "Valse Triste" ..:. Sibelius Four wind instruments. and a_ piano constitute the now popular novelty instrumental group known as Frank Biffo’s Brass. Quintet. The conductor, Frank Biffo, is himself a well-known trumpet soloist who was once .a member of the original. Savoy Orpbeans. The players aré Guy Fletcher (pianist .and arranger), George Chappell (once with the Grenadier Guards and Foden’s Band), first trumpet, Erie Todd, second trumpet, Tony Mangan, first trombone, and Stanley Wilson, second trombone. 9.30 Dad and Dave 9.43 . Callender’s Senior Band, "Old and New" .... Finck 9.49 Carlo Buti (tenor), "Donkey Serenade" . Friml 9.52 Frank Biffo and his Brass Quintet, "Prelude in C Sharp Minor " _ . Rachmaninoff 9.55 Massed Bands of the Alder- » shot and Eastern. Commands (The Tattoo, Aldershot, 1938) "Tudor Rose" ...... Adams "Royal Review" .... Silver 10. O Will Osborne and his orchestra, with interludes by Ted Steele and his Novatones 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN

: | y xe 880 k.c. 341m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light musical programme 7. O After dinner music 8. 0 Modern English chamber music: Virtuoso String Quartet, ‘ Novelette No. 3" (Bridge) 8. 4 Tudor Davies (tenor) 8.10 _Watson Forbes (viola), Myers Foggin (piano), *‘ Sonata for -Viola and Piano" (Arthur Bliss) 8.34 Nancy Evans (contralto) 8.43. Leon Goossens (oboe) and the International String Quartet, "Quintet for Oboe and Strings" (Arnold Bax) 9. O Classical recitals 10. O Variety 10.30 Close down |

Y/ WELLINGTON 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 10.28 to 10.30-Time signals 12. 0 Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators 1.30 EDUCATION SESSION "The Changing World," by the School Reporter 1:42 "Poetry for Juniors." Recital 5, by Mrs. Craig McKenzie 1.55 "Man Makes His Home" (9), by A. E. Nodwell eS ad Adventure in Five Continents " (7), by L. B. Quartermain 2.30 BROADCAST OF PROCEEDINGS FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 5.30 Children’s session, conducted by Uncle Peter 6. 0 DINNER SESSION: "Lehariana" (arr. Geiger); . "Granada" (Garcia); ‘"‘Serenade’’ (Pergament); "The Selfish Giant" (Coates); "Eugen Onegin" Waltz (Uschaikovski); "From Gluck — to Wagner’ (Schreiner); "Shepherd Fennel’s Dance’ (Balfour Gardiner); ‘‘Floradora

Selection’ (Stuart); "Mazurka" (Werkmeister): "Samson and Delilah’ (SaintSaens). 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 BROADCAST OF PROCEEDINGS FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 16.30 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11..0 CLOSE DOWN

2, y 840 k.c. 357m. © 2.30 p.m. Classical miusic 3. 0 Selected recordings Sports resulls 3.30 Weather report to: farmers and frost forecast tor Canterbury and Otago 4. 0 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session, conducted by. Uncle Peter 5.30 Light musical programme 6. O Close down 7. O After dinner music 7.30 "Who’s Who and \Vhat’s What?" A ramble in the news by "Coranto" 7.40 Talk by the Book Reviewer: "Books Grave and Gay" 8. © Concert programme "What I Like." A session with the world’s workers. His favourite items arranged and presented by a Policeman 8.30 " The Rich Uncle from, Fiji" (episodes 81 and 82) Wherein Uncle Jim, of Fiji, gives his niece and nephew some practical lessons in the art of living on no money at all. 8.42 "Just a Job of Work." An interview with a Traffic Inspector A municipal ‘trafic inspector will describe the work of regulating traffic and Say something about the reactions of motorists and. pedestrians. 9. 0 Weather report and station notices 9. 5 Programme by the Apollo Singers Conductor: H. Temple White Accompanist: Harold Whittle The Apollo Singers, "Strike the Lyre’ (Cooke), "The Joyous Wayfarer" (Mendelssohn), " Cargoes" (Gardiner), "A Smuggler’s Song" (Edmonds) 9.17 Recordings: Natan Milstein (violin), "Polonaise Brillante in D Major," "Romance Op. 22" (Wieniawski) This composer was the son of a Polish doctor, and he showed his musical bent so early that at the age of eight he was allowed to enter the Paris Conservatoire, winning first prize for violin playing when he was only eleven, Most of his busy life Was spent in concert tours. His musie is all so admirably suited to the violin that its popularity is inevitable. 9.25 The Apollo Singers, "Sound the Alarm" (Arno'd Williams), "Drink to Me Onlv" (arr. Elliott Button), "The Reveille" (Elgar), "Every Rustling Tree" (Kuhlau) 9.37 Recordings: Eileen Jovce (piano), "Tarantella in A Maior" (Farjeon), "Lotus Land" (Scott), "Danse Negre" (Scott). 9.45 The Anollo Sinvers, "The Monk’s War March" (Joseph Parry), "Were You There?" (Bantock). " Ra-Ha Chorus" (Alfred Hill) £.57 Recording: Mayfair Orchestra, corducted hv the composer, "Waiata Poi" (Alfred Hill) 10. 0 Music, mirth and melody 10.30 Close down

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SV CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416m. 7. Oa.m. Physical exercises BREAKFAST SESSION Close down Selected recordings Devotional Service Selected recordings Talk to women by "Margaret" Selected recordings Talk under the auspices of the Christchurch Branch of the National Council of Women

11.30 Selected recordings 12. O Lunch music 2. Op.m. Selected recordings 2.30 TALK, prepared by the Association for Country Education, Home Science Tutorial Section: "PLEASE CRITICISE THESE DIETS" Classical music Frost and special weather forecast, and light musical programme 4.30 Sports results 6. 0 Children’s hour: " Rainbow Man": " Kiwi Club" 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "Tannhauser. March’ (Wagner); "Listen io Liszt’ (arr. David Bor); "The Girl in the Tazxt’ (Fetras); ‘‘Have Mercy" (arr. Benedict); "‘Love Comes Once" (Gunther); " Rendezvous "’ (Aletter); ‘ Gramercy Square" (Grant); "Whisper of Fairies" (Rhode); "Hussars Love"’ (Gunther); "Doll’s Play’’ (Lederer); "‘Without a Care" (Oschmann); ""Masquerade’’ (Loeb); ‘‘Jollification’ (Reeves); "The Gipsy Princess" (Kalman); "Uncle Pete’’ (Jones): "‘Dance Improvisations" (Schtmmeipfennig). 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS allt ag o-°

7.35 7.50 8. 0 8.14 8.17 TALK under the auspices of the New Zealand Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs Sheep survey "The Woman in White" A dramatisation of Wilkie Collins’ thriller, by George Edwards and Company Recording: J. H. Squire Celeste Octet, "Song of the Waterfall" Squire "Night Nurse." Drama in a great hospital A James Raglan production

8.32 8.45 8.48 9. 0 9. 5 9.20 11. 0 J. H. Squire Celeste Octet, "Moonbeams and Shadows" Squire Dramatic feature: " THRILLS " J. H. Squire Celeste Octet, "Scent of the Jasmine " Squire "Personal Column." Drama from the agony column of a newspaper Weather forecast and station notices TALK by Professor L. G. Pocock: " Points from Plato’s Republic " DANCE MUSIC CLOSE DOWN STV A CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. 3 + peo p.m. Recordings z 0 8.32 8.41 8.47 8.55 9. 0 9.30 9.43 9.52 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music Brass band programme, with interludes of humour Carroll Gibbons’ Birthday Party Renara (pianist) Let’s have a chorus Albert Sandler Trio Highlights from musical comedy David Copperfield (episode 22) Light organ solos by Donald Thorne The BBC Kentucky Minstrels Mirthful moments Close down

aly 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 aviators Weather forecast EDUCATIONAL SESSION: "The Changing World," by the School Reporter 1.42 "Poetry for Juniors." Recital 5, by Mrs. Craig McKenzie 1.55 "Man Makes His Home" (9), by A. E. Nodwell 2.13 " Adventure in Five Continents " (7), by L. B. Quartermain Selected recordings 3.30 Sports results Classical music Weather report and special frost forecast Light musical programme 4.45 Sports results

5. O Children’s session conducted by Big Brother Bill 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: * Delibes in Vienna" (arr. Walter); "North Sea Waves’ (Krannig); "Tales from Old Vienna" (Voigt); "Dorfkinder’ (Kalman); "Little Silhouette’ (Plesow); "A Garden of Roses’; "Ballads We Love" (arr. Somers); "Serenata DAmalji’’ (Becce); "Maria Mari’ (di Capua); "Song of Paradise"’ (King); "Un Peu D'Amour’ (Silesu); "Monika’ (Kotscher); ‘Softly Awakes My Heart" (Saint-Saens); "‘The Soloist’s Delight" (Godfrey).

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 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT, featuring at 9.8 p.m., "Music from the Theatre" Forty Minutes with Beethoven Felix Weingartner, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. Orchestra, : "Egmont Overture " 8.10 Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone) ** Memories " "The Call of the Quail" 8.18 Felix Weingartner, conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Eleven Viennese Dances " 8.30 Wilhelm Kempff (pianist), " Ecossaises," "Bagatelle in Caine ss, Beethoven 8.36 Felix Weingartner, conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Prometheus Overture " Beethoven 8.40 Recorded TALK: H. E. Carter, "Plays and Prestige: On Tour with the Old Vic in Europe" (No. 2) 9. 0 Weather’ report and station notices 98 "MUSIC FROM THE THEATRE" "Les Presages," to the music of Tschaikovski 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11.0 CLOSE DOWN

| GAY @ 1140 k.c, 263m, 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. O After dinner music 8. 0 ‘Rosalie and Her Romances " 8.30 Random recordings: A light variety programme, featuring at 9.0 p.i.: " Night Nurse," and at 9.30: "The Homestead on the Rise" 10. O In order of appearance: The Three Virtuosos (piano), Ernest Butcher (baritone), Jack Payne and hig orchestra 10.30 Close down

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AAW 7) INVERCARGILL 680 k.c. 441 m. 7. 0-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session 41. 0 Recordings 42. 0 Luncheon session 1.30-2 30 p.m. Educational session, from | oy 6. 0 Dance music 6.30 Children’s session: David and Dawn | 6.45 Light music 6.15 ‘Personal Coiumn" 6.30 Howard Jacobs (saxophonist) 6.45 ‘" The Moonstone" 7. 0 After dinner music 7.30 Station announcements 8. 0 Book talk by H. B. Farnall, City Librarian 8.16 New dance releases 8.45 ‘The liunchback of Notre Dame" 9. O Picture painting in music 930 High kicking 10. 0 | Close down | SZ 940k.c. 319m. 7. Oa.m. Breakfast session 9.0 Morning programme 10. 0-10.10 Weather report | 42. 0 Luncheon music 41. Op.m. Weather report 1.30-2.30 Educational session, from 2YA 3.0 Afternoon programme 4.30 Weather and shipping news 56. 0 "David and Dawn" 5.30 Merry tunes 6. O Dinner music 6.30 News and reports 7.0 London Palladium Orchestra 7. 7 =‘"The Circle of Shiva" 7.32 ‘Rhythm all the Time" 7.45 Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra 7.48 Dad and Dave 8. 90 Chamber musie: The Grinke Trio, "Phantasie Trio in A Minor" (John Ireland) 8.13 Ninon Vallin ( soprano ) : "T’Automne," "Clair De Lune" (Faure) | 8.20 The Philharmonic String Trio: "Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello" (Francaix) 8.32 In the sports club: "Philip Cross discusses bull-fighting in Spain" 8. 0 Robert Renard Dance Orchestra 9. 6 The Mystery Club: ‘ The Doctor’s Problem " 9.31 Tunes vou will remember 10. 0 Close down QV ir) san be SS m. 7. 0-9.0a.m. Breakfast session 41. O Light music 12. 0-2.0p.m. Lunch session

of ees oocto hao fio QIN DOH TH = oao Light musical programme For the Children : featuring "Coral Cave" "Pinto Pete" Light music Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay; " Dad and Dave" After dinner music Inspector Scott of Scotland Yard Relay from St. Matthew’s Church, Hastings, of Combined Choirs Festival. Programme of light variety Ambrose and His Orchestra Gracie Fields Charlie Kunz (piano) AYN Close down NELSON 920k.c. 327m. 7. Op.m. Light music 8. 0 Concert programme: Chamber music introducing "Trout" Quintet (Schubert), played by Schnabel, Onnou, Prevost, Maas and Hobday; "Sonata No. 1" (Pugnani), played by Henri Temianka (violin) "His Last Plunge" (chapter 26) Humorous interlude Dance music, in strict tempo Close down VY WELLINGTON 990 k.c. 303 m. 7. Op.m. Premiere: The week’s new re7.35 7.46 8.5 8.20 8.40 8.45 leases The Crimson Trail Ensemble: Orchestral combination from famous rendezvi.1s The Old-Time The-Ayter: " The Fatal Shot" or ‘‘Wrongly Accused" 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 |Z AUCKLAND 1250 k.c. 240m, 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular 6.45 z. 0 7.45 8. 0 8.30 9. 0 10. 0 humbers News, announcements Sports session: "Bill" Hendr "The Life of Cleopatra’? (episode ’ ) Orchestral Musical comedy selections Concert session Close down