TUESDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 17, 20 October 1939, Page 25

TUESDAY

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IZA 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. W. R. Milne 10.15 Selected recordings 11. O Talk to women by " Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 12. 0 Lunch music 1.30 p.m. EDUCATIONAL = SESSION: Relayed from the Teachers’ Training College, to be conducted by the following lecturers: "Improvement of Farm Animals," C. L. Gillies 150 "Music" (23), R. Howie 2.10 " Power Resources from Early Times," Dr. W. S, Dale 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: "HINTS FOR SPRING SEWING" 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 Dave" 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "The Royal Trophy" (Rimmer); "German Dances" (Schubert); "Contrasts" (Robrecht); "The Little Gingerbread House" (Ivory); "The Student Prince’ (Romberg); "Minuet" (Valensin); ‘Throbbing Heart" (Eilenberg); ‘‘Talkative’" (Eilenberg); "American Tempo" (Gebhardt); "In the Confectioner’s Kitchen’ (Strauss); "La Fille De Madame Angot’ (Lecocq); "‘Cinderella’s Bridal -Precession"’. (Dicker); "Knightsbridge" (Coates). 7. 0 NEWS. SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.30 TALK by the Gardening Expert 8.0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Hamilton Weber and _ the State Theatre Orchestra, "Texas Ranger Song" Coslow All programmes in this issue are copyright to The Listener, and may not be reprinted without permission. These programmes are correct as we to press. Any last-minute alterations announced over the air.

8.5 "The Rich Uncle from Fiji" 8.17 "The Homestead on the Rise" 8.30 "Eb and Zeb" 839 "The Kingsmen": Radio's Royal Quartet Close harmony for four; melody for all, at the court of the Kingsmen. 852 Len Fillis (guitar), "Dipsomania" .. Len Fillis 8.55 Hamilton Weber and _ the State Theatre Orchestra, "The Old Drover" Hamilton Weber 9.0 Reserved 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 DANCE MUSIC 10. 0 Dance music by Sammy Lee and his Americanadians, relayed from the " Metropole " Cabaret 10.45 Reserved 10.50 Dance relay continued 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN I Y 880k.c. 341 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 Symphonic programme: The London Philharmonic Orchestra: "Festivo " (Tempo Di Bolero) (Sibelius) 8 Panzero (baritone), Cortot (piano), "Dichterliebe " (Schumann) 8.34 Robert Casadeus »*and the Orchestre Symphonique of Paris, ‘* Concert. stuck in F Minor" (Weber) 8.50 Elizabeth Schumann (soprano) 8.58 London Symphony Orchestra, "Syme phony in E. Flat Major" (Sibelius) 8.26 Sigrid Onegin (contralto) with Berlin State Opera Orchestra and Doctors’ Choir, " Alto Rhapsody " (Brahms) 9.44 The London Philharmonic Orchestra, "WL’Arlesienne Suite" (Bizet) 10. O Variety 10.30 Close down

DAN | WELLINGTON 570 k.c. 526 m. 6.50am. Weather report for aviators 7. O Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 9.15 Educational session for pupils of the Education Department’s Correspondence Schools 10. O Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28 t010.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 "A Housekeeper Talks to Women" (6) 11.30 TALK by a representative of the Wellington Red Cross Society 412. O Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators — 2.0 Classical hour 3.0 A.C.E. TALK: "Hints for Spring Sewing " Sports results Selected recordings 3.28 to 3.30 . Time signals Weather forecast for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago 4. 0. Sports results 5. O Children’s. session, conducted by Jill 5.45 DINNER SESSION: | (Subject to by re-broadcasts) "Tannhauser March" (Wagner); ‘Listen To Liszt" (arr. David Bor); "The Girl in the Taxi’ (Feiras); "Love Comes Once" (Gunther); "Rendezvous" (Aletter); ‘‘Gramercy Square’ (Grant); "The Blue Rose" (Demaret); "Hussars Love" (Gunther); "Annabella" (Meisel); "‘Without A Care" (Uschmann); "Look Out" (Bochmann); "‘Jollification’ (Reeves); ‘The Gipsy Princess" (Kalman); "Uncle Pete" (Jones); ‘Dance Improvisations" (Schimmelpfennig). 7.0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPART- MENT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.28to 7.30 Time signals 7.40 TALK by the motoring expert 8.0 CLASSICAL PROGRAMME featuring at 9.25 "‘ Memories of the Ballet": The Swan. Lake, by Tschaikovski Recordings: Sir Hamilton Harty, conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Royal Fireworks Music Suite" Overture Handel, trans. Hamilton Harty Composer, conductor, and probably England’s finest accompanist, Sir Hamilton Harty is a native of County Down, Ireland. There his father taught him the

piano and viola-with such success that the son acted as deputy to the parent at the age of eight. After experience in Belfast and Dublin (including work as &a Chureh organist), Harty went to London in 1900. He is best known to radio listeners in New Zealand for his association with the celebrated Halle Orchestra at Manchester. 8.10 Choir and Orchestra of the Bach Cantata Club, London, "Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring" Bach 8.13 Madame Betts-Vincent (pianist), presents: "Toccata in G Minor" Bach "Prelude, Allemande and Gigue in B Flat" ..... . Bach "Prelude and Fugue in A Minor " de eens Bach-Liszt 8.33 Recordings: Lotte Lehmann (soprano), "Secrecy" ........ Mozart 8.36 The London Symphony Orchestra, "Ballet Music — Les Petits iteng Oo a ak aad x eee 8.43 Recorded Talk: Dr. Elizabeth Bryson: "What Shall We Eat? -Fun and Freshness" 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 "Music from the Theatre" Memories of the Ballet: "The Swan Lake" to the music of Tschaikovski 10.0 MUSIC MIRTH AND MELODY 10.45 Reserved 10.50 Continuation of programme 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN QCM 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 "Variety on the Air": Two hours ef tight entertainment : 10. 0 Light recitals by Viljo Vesterinen (piano accordion virtuoso), Paul Robeson and Lawrence Brown (vocal duettists), and the J. H. Squire Celeste Octet 10.30 Close down

TRANSMISSION HOURS In the meantime, the four National Stations, 1YA, 2YA, 3YA and 4YA, will observe continuous hours of transmission from 6 a.m. till midnight. These hours are for Sundays and week-days. The extra transmission periods will either be occupied with Daventry news broadcasts or miscellaneous musical programmes.

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CHRISTCHURCH SY, 720 k.c. 416m. 7. Oa.m. Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. O Selected recordings 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45. Selected recordings 91. 0 Talk to women by " Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 11.16 Talk by Mrs. E, Early: " Fashions " 91.30 Selected recordings 12. 0 Lunch music 2. Op.m. Selected recordings 2.30 TALK, prepared by the Association for Country Education, Home Science Tutorial Section: "Hints For Spring Sewing " Classical music Frost and special weather forecast and light musical programme 4.30 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session 56.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "Gipsy Love" (Lehar); "Dance Of The Hours" (Ponchielli); ""Paraphrase On Two Russian Folk Songs’ (Kreisler); ‘‘Sizilietta’ (Blon); "My Lady Dainty’ (Hesse); "Dance of the Gnomes.in F Sharp Minor’ (Liszt); "Grieg" (arr. Urbach); "‘Mientras Lloro El Tango" (Barabine and Couran); "Arabian Gola" (Rust); ‘Nocturne in C Sharp Minor’ (Chopin); "Butterfly" (Schlenk); "‘"Schwanda The Bagpipe Player" (Weinberger); *Whisperings From The Forest’ (Zimmer). 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 8.0 "The Cloister and the Hearth": The Escape Adapted from Charles Reade’s great tale of the Middle Ages, by the National Broadcasting Service, and produced and recorded in the Wellington studios 8.23 Howard Flynn and his or- > 9 a) chestra, "London Town": An _ Irish pie ae arr. Flynn 8.29 "Here's a Queer Thing" Just to prove the old saying that Truth fs Stranger than Fiction. 842 New Mayfair Orchestra, "Sir Roger de Coverley " Daykin 8.46 "Silas Marner" An adaptation of George Eliot’s great classic of English literature, presented by George Edwards and Company 9.0 Reserved

9.20 Weather forecast and station notices 9.26 TALK, by Rev. Lawrence M. Rogers, M.A.: "The Greatest Modern Discoveries of Man: From Picture Words to Printing Press" 9.40 Recordings: The International Novelty Orchestra, "Peter’s Pop Keeps a Lolliee Doin. eee eT & Long 9.43 Grace Moore (soprano), | "TI Give My Heart" Millocker "The Dubarry" . Millocker

9.49 10.45 10.50 11. 0 Jesse Crawford (organ), "Giannini Mia" ..... Friml "The Kingsmen": Radio's Royal Quartet Dance music by the bands of Bert Ambrose, Joe Loss and Lew Stone with vocal interludes by Tony Martin Reserved Continuation of dance music CLOSE DOWN SV CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250 m. 5. 7. 0 8. 0 10. 0 10.30 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings After dinner music Chamber music, featuring at 8.14, "Concerto in B Minor for Viola and Orchestra," played by William Primrose and Chamber Orchestra; and at 8.34, "* Quintet in A Major," played by the Budapest String Quartet with Benny Goodman (clarinet) Sonata hour, featuring at 9.6, " Sonata in F Minor’. (the Appassionata), played by Artur Schnabel: and at 9.37, "Sonata No. 3 in D Minor," played by Isolde Menges (violin), . and. Harold Samuel (pianoforte) Keep smiling Close down

ZN DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 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. . Selected recordings 10.15 Devotional Service 10.50 Talk to women by "Margaret" 12. 0 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. 0 Children’s session, conducted by Aunt Anita 5.45 DINNER MUSIC (subject to interruption by rebroadcasts) "Sons OG Guns’ Selection; "O Spring, How Fair Thou Art" (Lincke); "Old Vienna Moon" (arr, Cardew); ‘Les Sirenes’’ (Wuaidteufel); "Eva" (Lehar); "Once When I Was A Little Tipsy’’ (Kapeller); "Voices of Spring’ (Strauss); "Second Serenade’ (Heykens); "Roses of the South’’ (Strauss); "A Birthday Serenade’ (Lincke); ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ (Mascagni); "‘Pardon’ My Lady’ (Meisel Jager); "‘Hejre Kati’ (Hubay); "In A Little Cafe In Hernals’’ (Leopold). 7. © NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 710 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.)

7.30 WINTER COURSE TALK: Prof. T. D. Adams: "Humour: Ancient Wit and Humour" Listeners will probably find from Professor Adams’s talk that life in the ancient world was more like life in their own time than they had supposed. 8.11 8.17 8.25 8.34 8.42 8.48 10.20 10.45 10.50 11. 0 BAND CONCERT, with popular interludes The Band of the First Battalion Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, "My Braw Laddie" Macdonald "Songs of the Hebrides" Kennedy-Fraser Ralph Silvester (vocal), "Songs of Erin" The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, "Tales of Hoffman" Selection Offenbach "Eb and Zeb" The BBC Wireless Military Band, "Slavonic Rhapsody " Friedmann Stan'ey Lupino (vocal comic), "T’ve Found the Right Girl," "Let Me Gaze". .Lupino-Gay Bands of H.M. Coldstream and Welsh Guards "Homage March" Haydn Wood "Solemn Melody " Walford Davies Grand Massed Brass Bands, "Grand Coronation March" (from "Le Prophete ") Meyerbeer Reserved Weather report and station notices "Those We Love." A story of people like us-the Marshalls "Singapore Spy." A drama of the world’s greatest fortress, presented by James Raglan and Compnay MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY Reserved Continuation of music, tits and melody CLOSE DOWN aly DUNEDIN 1140 k.c. 263m. 5. 0-6.0p-m. Recordings ° 0 ah Da 10. 0 10.30 After dinner musi¢ Classical recital programme, featuring Derek Oldham (tenor), and the Boyd Neel String Orchestra Philharmonic Choir presents Schubert’s " Mass in G Major" Chamber music hour, "pare Schumann’s " Piano Quintet in Flat Major," played by Artur Schnabel and the Pro Arte Quartet In order of appearance: Greta Keller (light vocal), Donald Novis (tenor), and London Piano Accordion Band Close down

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AWW 77 INVERCARGILL 680k.c. 441m. 7. Oa.m. Breakfast session 9. 0-10.0 Morning programme 41. O Recordings 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon session 5. O Light music 6.30 Children’s session: ‘David and Dawn" 6.45 Dance music _6. 0 "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" 6.15 Reserved 6.45 ‘‘Homestead on the Rise" 7. 0. Re-broadcast of official news 7.10 After dinner music; 7.30, Station announcements 8.0 Talk for the man on the land: "The Diesel Tractor," by 4G, Phillips 8.16 Selections from grand opera 8.45 Josephine Bradley and her Ballroom Orchestra 8. 0 Reserved 9.30 Ports of call: "A Visit to Sweden" 10. 0 Closé down SZ 940k.c. 319m. 7. Oam. Breakfast session 8. 0 Morning programme 10. 0-10.10 Weather report 912. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon music 4. 0 Weather report 3. 0 Afternoon programme 4.30 Weather and shipping news 5. O Children’s session, including a talk : by "The Friend of the Birds" 5.46 ‘Westward Ho!" 6.0 Dinner music 6.30 After dinner music 7..0..News service, issued by the Prime ‘-*°Minister’s Department 7.20 Let’s be gay 7.30 "Marie Antoinette" 7.54 Ed. Lang (guitar .solo) 8. 0 Grand opera 8.30 ‘Say It with Flowers" (episode 2) 8.42 Tea-time concert party 8.50 Al Bollington (organ) 9. 0 Reserved 9.15. Lighter: moments with the masters 9.30 Dance music by Bob Crosby and His Orchestra, Brian Lawrence and His Lansdowne Orchestra, with interludes by Frances Langford 10. 0 Close down QV irl 760 k.c. 395 m. 7. 0-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session 44. 0 Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch session ' 5. O Light music 5.30 For the children: "David and Dawn" 6. 0 ‘The Buccaneers" 6.16 Light music _@.45 Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay. "David Copperfield" 7. 0 Rebroadcast of Government News Session "7.15 (approx.) After dinner music 8.0 ‘"Coronets of England: The Story . of Mary, Queen of Scots 9.0 Reserved "8.20 " Tit-bits of To-day: Hits of Yes- : terday 9.50 ‘The Crimson Trail? an 40.6 Close down

AVN sme nm. 7. Op.m. Rebroadcast news 7.20 7.45 8. 0 8.30 9.15 9.30 10. 0 Light music "Drama in Cameo: ‘The Pardoner’s Tale" Concert programme: Light opera and musical comedy Orchestral music with vocal interludes, featuring ‘‘ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice" (Dukas), played by the Philadelphia Orchestra Lorna Doone Dance music Close down QW] WELLINGTON 990k.c. 303 m. 7. Op.m. Ragtime marches on 7.35 7.46 8.25 8.45 9. 0 9.20 9.50 10. 0 The Crimson Trail Musical melange Buccaneers of the Pirate Ship Vulture The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s Dancing times Ports of Call: *‘ Scotland" Fanfare: Brass and: military bands on parade Close down LAN rhe 5. Op.m. Light orchestral’ and popular 6.45 7. 0 7.10 7.30 8. 0 9.30 10. 0 items Station notices Orchestral session .DX notes: Mr. Andrews Orchestral selections Notable British Trials: *‘ The Trial of James Blomfield Rush" (episode 5) Concert programme Miscellaneous recordings Close down