SATURDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 16, 13 October 1939, Page 43

SATURDAY

NATIONAL

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VY AUCKLAND 650k.c. 462m. 7. Oa.m. Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. O Devotional Service 10.15 Selected recordings 11. 0 ‘Talk to women by "Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 42. 0 Running commentary on Auckland Trotting Club’s Meeting relayed from Alexandra Park 1. Op.m. District week-end weather ~ forecast 2. 0 Selected recordings 3.15 Sports Results 4.30 Sports Results 5. O Children’s session, conducted by " Cinderella " 6.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "Dorothy" (Cellier); "Until" (Sanderson); "Birthday March’ (Kahne); "Where the Woods are Green’ (Brodsky); "Black and Tan’ (Lowthian); "Cuckoo in the Clock" (Collins); "‘Funiculi Funicula" (Denza); "The Sphinx’ (Popy); "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" (Jessel); "From Opera to. Opera" (Schestak); "My Chin Chin Lu’ (Scott Tonkinoise); "‘The Cabaret Girt’ (Kern); "Military March in E Flat’ (Schubert); "A Girl Like Nina" (Abraham Hammerstein). 7. 0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS

7.10 (approx.) 8. 0 8.17 8.29 NEWS AND REPORTS CONCERT PROGRAMME Recordings: Rosario Bourdon Symphony, " Changing of the Guards" Bizet Gwyneth Hughes (contralto), "O Lovely Night" Landon Ronald "Melisande in the Wood" Alma Goetz "June Music" ...... Trent "Sapphic Ode" .... Brahms Aileen Warren (piano), "Valse Lente" .... Schutt "Polichinelle" ....... Schutt "The Western Isles" | Barratt | "Four Waltzes" .... Brahms The Melody Five (concerted male vocal), "Love Walked In" . Gershwin "The Keys of Heaven" Button

8.41 8.44 8.54 9.40 "Lay My Head Beneath a aver ey fete Hanbridge " Good-night" .. Scott Gatty Recordings: Rosario Bourdon Symphony, "Gipsy Dance" ..... Bizet Mary Lewis (soprano), "Les Deux Serenades" Leoncavallo 1 eee .». Curran "Little Boy Blue" ... Nevin Rosario Bourdon Symphony, "Open Thy Window" . Bizet "The Hornet" ...... Trad. Reserved Weather report and station notices Roy Smeck and his Seren-. aders, | "Is That the Way to Treat a Sweetheart?" ......... Tobias "The Same Sweet You" | Tobias Renara (piano variations), "A Violin in Vienna" . Dale "Mexicali Rose" .... Stone Walter Preston and ivelyn MacGregor (light vocal duets), "If It’s the Last Thing I Do" Chaplin and Cahn "Remember Me?" .. Warren Primo Scala’s Accordion Band, "If the Old River Thames Were the Danube" .. Butler "Whoops We Go Again" ~ Harvey

9.46 Light Opera Company, " Neapolitan Nights" 9.54 Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra, "The Vagabond King" SelecWe :. abateiaeve cscoe: Fenn 10. 0 Sports summary 40.10 DANCE MUSIC 10.45 Reserved 10.50 Continuation of dance music 11.15 CLOSE DOWN IY AUCKLAND | | 880k.c. 341m. | 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After dinner music 8. O In lighter vein 8.30 ‘The Woman in White" 8.45 Organists in rhythm 9. 0 "Soldier of Fortune" 9.26 Minstrelsy and humour 10. O Variety 10.30 Close down

AY WELLINGTON 570 k.c. 526 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. O Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. O Close down 10. O Weather report for aviators 10.10 . Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28 t010.30 Time signals 10.45 "Kathleen" chats to Business Girls (5) 12. O Running commentary of the events of the second day of the Wellington Racing Club’s Spring Meeting (relayed from Trentham) 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators, week-end weather forecast and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago (NOTE: -Last race through 2YC, if after 5 o’clock) 5. 0 Children’s session -6. 0 DINNER SESSION: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "La Tarantelle de Belphegor’ (Albert); "Blue Eyes’’ (Mackeben); "From ..the Old Country at Home’’ (Smetana); ‘‘Amorettentanze"’ (Gungl); "Variete Intermezzo" (Charlie); "Four Indian Love Lyrics" (Woodforde Finden); "Song of Paradise" (King); "Devotion" (Schumann) ; ""Beautiful Spring’ (Lincke); "Indian Mail" (Lamothe); "Stop Press" 3; "Glow Worm Idyll" (Lincke); "Gipsy Sing for Me" (Meisel); "Tango des Aveuz’’ (Demaret); ‘Heartless’ (Metsel). | 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

7.40 8. 0 8.48 8.54 8.57 9. 0 9.20 10.10 10.45 10.50 11.15 TALK by W. Atkinson, "Labour Day" CONCERT PROGRAMME "Coronets of England": The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots (episode 1) New Mayfair Orchestra, "Gilbert and Sullivan Selection " "The Circle of Shiva" (episode 1). A thrilling story of an Indian secret society Ted Steele’s Novatones, "A Pretty Girl is Like a LES See raaepe ... Berlin Ee a Blanket of Blue" Levinson Leslie Hutchinson (light vocal), "A Mist is Over the Moon" Hammerstein-Oakland Allen Roth Orchestra, REWEO teehee c Ee gS Kern "Lady be " .. Gershwin Reserved Weather report and station notices DANCE PROGRAMME 10. 0 Sports summary Dance programme continued Reserved Dance programme continued CLOSE DOWN QVC WELLINSTON co 7. 8. ooo m. Light musical programme Close .down After dinner music Music for all. A programme of light and popular classical music Music and humour. A programme of light variety recordings featuring at 9.4 p.m., "A Studio Party" with the "Radio Rogues." 9.34 p.m. "An Old Time Minstrel Show. " Dance music by Rudy Valee and his Connecticut Yankees For forall Close down

" WITH APOLOGiEs To_"

SATURDAY

‘NATIONAL

BY ,\ CHRISTCHURCH 1S 720 k.c. 416m. 7. Oa.m. Physical exercises _ 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION '*9. O Close down ¥ 10. © Selected recordings ‘40.30 Devotional Service te 10.45 Selected recordings "11. O Talk to women by "Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 92. O Lunch music te 0 p.m. Week-end weather fore- : cast . 2. 0. Selected. recordings Tih > 8.80. _ 430 Sports results ‘5.0 Children’s hour 645 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "Aida" Selection (Verdi-Tavan); "Nocturne" (Ganne); "O Beautiful Maytime" (Strauss); "‘Dawn’’. (Matt); "A Country Girt’ .¢Monckton); "Collette" (Fraser Simson); "Slavonic Dances’ (Dvorak); ‘‘Melodious Memories" (Finck); "Der Rosenkavalier’. (Strauss). : 7.0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME -MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (@pprox.) 8. 0 Recordings: | The’ London Palladium Or4 chestra, d /‘ The Thistle" (Selection of 2% . i _ Scots melodies): . Myddleton 8:10" Stuart Robertson (bass), / -¢ "Tm Summertime: On Bredon" Sik easter Peel > *Sea Fever" eeeeee Ireland 8.15 + One Good Deed. a Day." A comedy ‘serial by George Edwards and Company This session. tells of the adventures of and Mrs."Lamb, a young married couple who have,been left the vast sum of seventy-five thousand pounds on certain conditions, the main condition being that for twelve.months they must perform one good‘deed a day, and must prove the performance of this deed to the executor of their’ tate uncle’s estate. The Lambs are a couple,"and they set about ir-task gaily, to fl t the Jerformance of a good deed is\not as easy as, {t gOunds. . : ot =f" = whee f 3 8.27 Recording: Len Fillis and his "Novelty. Orchestra, Ges pest a2 peeled (The Music of Lullabies» ~ oe ee eS eee |

— 9.20 9.25 10.10 10.45 10.50 11.30 "Coronets of England." The Life of Charles II., The Merry Monarch (episode 23) Reserved Weather report and station notices Modern dance programme to music by the Bailey Marston Dance Orchestra (relayed from the Winter Garden) 10. 0 Sports summary Resumption of modern dance programme Reserved Resumption of dance _ programme CLOSE DOWN

BY CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7.0 After dinner music 8. 0 10. 0 10.30 Symphonic programme: featuring at 8.16, "Serenade in E for Strings" (Dvorak), played by the Boyd Neel String Orchestra; at 8.48, " Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54" (Schumann), played by Myra Hess (pianist), and orchestra; andyat 9.26, " Symphony-No, 3 in D Major, Op. 29" (Tschaikovski), played by the London Symphony Orchestra Favourite entertainers Close down

ANY 4 DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for 7. 0 7.10 9. 0 10. 0 10.50 12. 0 aviators Physical exercises BREAKFAST SESSION Close down Weather report for aviators Selected recordings Talk to women by " Margaret " Lunch music

1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators Weather forecast 2. O Selected recordings 3.30 445 Sporta results 5. O Children’s session, conducted by Cousin Molly 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption hy re-broadcasts) "Memories of Paris" (Moretti Christine); "Maritana’ (Wallace); "Stealing Through the Classics" No.. 8 (Overtures); "Monte Christo"" (Kotler); "Viennese Nights" (Romberg); "Munchner Kindl’’ (Komzak); "Marien Klange" (Strauss); "Ave Maria’ (Schubert); "The Marionettes Guard Mount-

ing" (Kuhn); "You, Me and Love" (Marischka); "The Rose's Bridal Procession" (Jessel); ‘When the Great Red Dawn is. Shining’ (Sharpe); ‘Whispering Pines" (Byrne). 7.0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 8. 0 LIGHT ORCHESTRAL AND BALLAD CONCERT Record: Dajos Bela Orchestra, "Johnny Strikes Up" 8.10 Lex Macdonald (baritone), "Border Ballad" .... Cowen "Vagabond" ...... Clarke 8.16 Paul Godwin Orchestra, "Suite Funambulesque " Messager The French composer, Andre Messager (1853-1929), was a pupil of the great Saint-Saens, and for some years was artistic director at Covent Garden and at the Paris Opera. He made a great success in light music, with operettas and comie operas. He is almost the last of a long line of French composers in this: vein. He helped to make known a very different kind of music-that of his compatriot, Claude Debussy. 8.28 Marion Duncan (contralto), "Country Folk" .... Brahe "O That It Were So" Bridge "The Fuschia Tree" Quilter 8.37 Ray Ventura and his orchestra, "Fifty Years of Operette" arr. Misraki 8.48 Lex Macdonald (baritone), "Comrades of Mine," "The Stockrider’s Song" .. James 8.51 The Merry Village Band, "How Sweet " Waltz Song Lutzow "Lovely Island" .... Lincke "Women’s March" .. Lehar 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9. 5 DANCE PROGRAMME 10. 0 Sports summary 9.25 DANCE PROGRAMME 10.45 Reserved 10.50 Dance music 11.15 CLOSE DOWN aly DUNEDIN 1140k.c, 263 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. O After dinner music £4 8.0 "Lorna Doone" (chapter 46) 8.15 Variety ested 8.30 "His Lordship’s Memoirs": "Revolution" : : 9. 0 ‘Leaves from the Diary of a Film Fan" 9.30 Fall in and follow the band 10. 0 Music and merriment : 10.30 Close down ae

~--~ CHINESE ART

Most people are acquainted with Chinese Art only through the the willow-pattern on the afternoon tea service, but there is more to it than that, as you will learn if you listen to the talk on "The Antiquity and Beauty of Chinese Art," to be given by Amy Milburn from 1Y A Auckland at 9.25 p.m. on Thursday, October 19.

October 21

aly INVERCARGILL 680k.c. 441 m. 7. Oa.m. Breakfast session 8. 0-10.0 Morning programme 11. 0 Recordings 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon session 5. 0 5.30 5.45 6.15 6.45 7. 0 7.10 7.30 8. 0 8.5 9. 0 9.20 10. 0 Light music Children’s session Saturday’s special Reserve "The Rich Uncle from Fiji " Rebroadeast of Official News Service After dinner music Station announcements Local results Shall we dance? Reserved For the music lover Close down [Sai amore 7. Oa.m. Breakfast session Morning programme 10. 0-10.10 Weather report 12. 0 Luncheon musie 1. Op.m. Weather report Recordings Merry tunes Reserved Merry melodies The Crimson Trail Dinner music Reserved After dinner musie News service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department Spotlight parade

7.30 The Life of Cleopatra 7.54 Len Green (piano) 8.0 Harry Horlick and his orchestra, and Richard Tauber (tenor) 8.30 Cavalcade of the Empire 8.45 The Halle Orchestra (soloist, Sir Hamilton Harty), with the St. Michael’s Singers, conducted by the composer, in "The Rio Grande’ (Sitwell and Constant Lambert) 9. 1° "Personal Column " 9.14 Swing, you sinners 9.30 May I have the pleasure? (correct dance tempo) 10. 0 Close down NAPIER QV in 760 k.c. 395 m. 7. 0-10.0 a.m. Breakfast session 41. O Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch session 6. O Light musical programme 5.46 ‘" Westward Ho!" 6. 0 "Carson Robison and His Pioneers" 6.15 "The Japanese Houseboy " 6.45 Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay 7. O lkebroadcast of Government News Session 7.15 approx.) " Mittens" 8.0 oncert session: "Beatrice and Benedict" Overture (Berlioz) 8.10 Valerie Lewis (contralto) 8.20 ‘" Rosamunde" ballet music 8.35 Alfred O’Shea (tenor) 9. O Reserved 9.20 ‘The Crimson Trail" 9.36 Light recitals 10. 0 Close down NELSON BN cate nah 7. Op.m. Rebroadcast News 7.20 (approx) Light music 8. 0 Concert programme 8.10 ‘Grand Hotel" (episode 5) 8.35 Programme of popular music 9.16 Dance music 10. 0 Close down CAD ai pene ae 7. Op.m. ‘You asked for it"; From listeners to listeners 8.30 Music for dancing 10. 0 Close down 1250 k.c. 240m. 2 | AUCKLAND 41. Op.m. Band music, vocal gems, light orchestral and popular selections 2.20 Hawaiian melodies, piano, piano accordion and organ seiectivits 3.40 Miscellaneous items, selections from the shows, light orchestral and popular numbers 6.45 Announcements 7. 0 Sports results and comments: "Bill" Hendry 7.30 Trafalgar Day programme 8. 0 Dance session 12. 0 Close «~-¥wa