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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 18, 27 October 1939, Page 35

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V7, AUCKLAND l 650 k.c. 462 m. 7. Oam. BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. O Devotional Service 10.15 Selected recordings 11. O. Talk to women by " Margaret " ‘y11.10 Selected recordings fo. O Lunch music 2. Op.m. 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: "Welcome to Spring Foods " : 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 " Unéle Alec," with the special feature: "Littke Women" (episode 11) (dramatisation of the book by Louisa M, Alcott) 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "Reminiscences Of Chopin’; "For You’ (Czibulka); "Yes, Madame" Selection; "Venetian Gondola Song" (MendelssohnBartholdy); "Bohemian Polka’ (Weinberger); "Die Romantiker"’ (Lanner); "‘Melodie’ (Denza); "To You’ (Waldteufel); "Rhapsodiana"’ (arr. Somers); "Down in the Lobau" (Strecker); ‘"‘Sevillana’ (Ferraris); "I Love You’ (Waldteufel); ‘Kisses in the Dark" (de Micheli); "Cireus March" (Smetana). 7.0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY: THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 TALK on the Centennial Exhibition (National broadcast) 7.15 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.30 WINTER COURSE TALK: "Man and the Atom, or the Nature of Things" (3) — Light, X-rays and the Atom, by Dr. Dennis Brown The minuteness of the atom is something that the layman finds extremely dificult to grasp. A grain of dust contains many thousand million million atoms. One thousand million atoms compressed together into a particle would be invisible under a microscope. 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Mr. Chalmers, K.C.: "The Un- , official Investigation" (chapter 1) Meet. barrister-detective No. 1-Royston Chalmers, K.C.; the barrister who never accepts a brief unless he is certain of his client’s innocence; the detective who, with the assistance of the faithful Hamilton, goes out to secure his own evidence, often after the police have confessed themselves baffled; the barrister who never fails to secure a ‘not guilty" verdict for his innocent client. 8.15 "Wandering with the West Wind " 8.45 "The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s"

9.37 9.50 10. 8 10.45 10.50 11. 0 Reserved Weather report and station notices Studio coneert by the Auckland Artillery Band conducted by Captain George Buckley The Band, "If I Were King" Overture Adam "The Gondoliers" Selection Sullivan "Dad and Daye" The Band, "Communityland" Fantasia Stoddon Recording: Raymond: Newell (baritone), "For England" ... Murray The Band, "Songs of England" SelecTe rors "Dreadnaught" .... Rimmer An hour of dance music, featuring the bands of Henry Busse, Van Alexander and Hal Kemp, with vocal interludes by Vera Lynn Reserved : Continuation of dance music CLOSE DOWN Pe cee | 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 8. 0 After dinner music Chamber music hour: Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson (pianists), oe for Two Pianos" (Arnold ax) Gerhard Husch (baritone); Margaret Kilpinen (piano), in songs by Kilpinen The Spencer Dyke String Quartet, with James Lockyer and Edward Robinson, "String Sextet in G Major" (Brahms) Classical recitals Variety Close down

ON WELLINGTON 570 k.e. 526 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. © 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 "Bits and Pieces": A talk to women by Isobel (7) 12. O Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators 130 EDUCATIONAL SESSION: "The Changing World," by the School Reporter 1.42 "Story and Dance in Music" (10) by Dr. A. E. Fieldhouse 1.55 "Homes, Life.-and Work in the East Indies" (4) by R. J. Waghorn 2.13 " Music" (9) by T. J. Young 2.30 Classical music 3. 0 Sports results Selected recordings 3.28 t03.30 Time signals Weather forecast for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago 4. 0 Sports results 5. O Children’s session, conducted by Uncle Peter 5.45 DINNER SESSION: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "The Leek’ (Middleton); "Underneath The Lilac Tree’ (Schubert-Berte); "Born To Dance" (Porter); "Et Relicario" (Padilla); "Love And Spring" (Waldteufel); ‘Charm | Of The Valse"’ (arr. Winter); "Love's Call’ (Schar{); "Tritsch Tratsch"’ (Strauss); ‘Songs Without Words" (Mendelssohn); | "Intermezzo" (Strauss); "Little Flatterer’ (Eilenberg)s "Offenbachiana"’ (arr. Finck). 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH) OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 TALK on the Centennial Exhibition (re-broadcast by the National stations) 7.16 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.28 to 7.30 Time signals "Who’s Who and What’s What?": A ramble in the news by Coranto 7.40 TALK by the Book Reviewer: "Books Grave and Gay" 8.0 POPULAR PROGRAMME Recording: Lew Stone and His Band, "On Your Toes" Selection 8.10 The Swingtime Harmonists, Vocal Trios, "Cradle Song " Brahms, arr. Zamecnik "Music Maestro, Please" (Introducing "Solitude") Wrubel

8.25 8.37 8.46 8.52 9. 0 9.20 10. 0 10.45 10.50 11. 0 Saxophone solo: "Frasquita Serenade" Lehar Vocal Trio: "Funny Old Hills" _ Robin Rainger Recordings: Lani McIntyre and His Hawaiians (instrumental) "Hearts are Never Blue in Blue Kalua" McIntyre-McConnell-Bryan, "Dreams of Old Hawaii" McIntyre-White "The Rich Uncle from Fiji" (Episodes 93 and 94) Reginald Porter- Brown (organ), "Organ Medley" Bing Crosby (light vocal), ~ "Sing a Song of Sunbeams," "East Side of Heaven" Burke-Monaco Louis Levy and His Orchestra, "Music from the Movies" (1938) Reserved Weather report and station notices ‘ CONCERT BY THE WELL INGTON HARMONIC SOCIETY (Conductor: H. Temple White) (Relayed from the Concert Chamber) Contralto solos: "Love Triumphant" . Brahms "Faith in Spring" Schubert "The Vain Suit" .. Brahms by Mrs. J. A. Wiltshire Madrigal: "The Silver Swan" ... Gibbons Part Song: "Sanctuary of the Heart" Ketelbey Instrumental Trio: "Ballet Pour Enfants" Debussy by Gertrude Johnston (piano), W. McLean (violin), and §. McLean (’cello) Part song: "All Things are Still" . Redman Chorus: " Bridal Chorus" (from " The Rose Maiden") ..,,... Cowen MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY Reserved Continuation of Music, Mirth and Melody CLOSE DOWN QVC WELLINGTON M mere p.m. Light music 8. 0 9. 10. oo 10.30 After dinner music Chamber music hour, featuring at 8.10 ‘Quartet in F Minor" (Haydn) Melody. and humour, ie "As They Come": Light reeltals by The Keyboarders (two pianos and drums), Stuart. Robertson (baritone), and the, Internationa Salon Orchestra Close down

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BV CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416m. 7. Gam. 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 National Council of Women: Miss M. G. Havelaar, "The History of Queen’s College, London" | 11.30 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: "WELCOME TO SPRING FOODS" Classical music & © Frost and special weather forecast and light musical programme 4.30 Sports results 5. O Children’s session 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by -re-broadcasts) é "Il Seraglio" (Mozart); "Hungarian Dance, No. 4" (Brahms); "Madame _ Butter/ly" (Puccini); "Overture to Arundel Suite’ (Sebastian Brown); "‘Where The Rainbow Ends" (Quilter); ""Berceuse’ (Jarne/feldt); "Ca C'est Madrid" (O’Henry); "Tales Of Hoffman" (Offenbach); "‘The Dance Of The Dwarfs’ (Noack); "In ,The Moonlight" (Ketelbey); "‘Yablochko" (Gliere); *Selection of Wilfred Sanderson's Songs’; ‘Thunder and Lightning" (Esther). 7. 0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME _ MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 TALK on the Centennial Exhibition (National broadcast) 7.15 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.35 Review of the Journal of Agriculture 7.50 Sheep survey 8. 0 "The Woman in White." A dramatisation of Wilkie Collins’s thriller by George Edwards and Company *

$.15 "Personal Column." Drama from the agony column of a newspaper 8.28 "The Twelve Labours' of Hercules": "The Stymphalian Birds." Dramatic series with a comedy flavour Despite its title, this series is by no means an excursion into mythology. It tells of a young man named Hector Cousins, known to his friends as ‘ Hercules,’ who inherits flve thousand pounds, and a family retainer, Bartholomew Stubbins, The worthy Hector undertakes to perform twelve tasks Similar to those of the mythical Hercules, ‘in order to prove himself worthy of his flancee.. The help that Bartholomew is able to give leads us to believe that he was worth far more to Hector than the five thousand pounds. 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 Weather report ina station notices 9.25 Dance music 10.45 Reserved 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN SHY A CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Selected recordings 7. O After, dinner. music « 8. 0. Band programme, with spoken in- . terludes._ 8.32 " Rosalie" Selection 8.40 Grace Moore ‘in’ ag ‘trom " The Dubarry " 8.46 "Mr. W hittington a7. Selection 8.52 Vocal gems. from, "The Desert: Song" 9. 0° BBC recorded programme: . S Lam: don’s River" 9.30. ‘David. Copperfield " (episode 28) 9.43 ‘Love Songs with Safdier ’"’ ‘9.51 "Funiculi Funicula" 9.54 Serge Krish Septet: " Serenata" ‘9.57 _" The music shop" = ¥ 10. 0 ‘Vive Le Compagnie" 410.30 Close down

AW; DUNEDIN | 790 k.c. 380 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. 0 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0. Close down 10. 0 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 1.30 EDUCATIONAL SESSION (Re-broadcast from 2YA) "The Changing World" by. the School Reporter 1.42 "Story and Dance in Music" (10) by Dr. A. E. Fieldhouse 1.55 "Homes, Life and Work in the East Indies" (4) by R. J. Waghorn 2.13 "Music" (9) by T. J. Young 2.30 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 session, conducted by Big Brother Bill 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "Cossack Dance’ (Tschaikovski); ‘"‘The Spider’ (Klose); "The White Horse Inn (Stolz Benatsky); ‘Siciliano’ (Jessel); "The Flowers Dream’ (Translateur); ‘"Moineau" (Beydts); "I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles" (Kellette)® ‘Nola’ (Arndt); "Queen Of Love" (Borgmann); "Waltz Medley"; ‘‘Fascination" (Marchetti); "Scherzo No. 2 in B Flat. Minor’ (Chopin); "Moto Perpetuo" (Lotter). 7. 0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 TALK on the Centennial Exhibition (National broadcast) 7.15 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.30 Gardening talk 8. 0 CONCERT BY THE LONre SYMPHONY ORCHESRA Soloists: Robert Couzinou (baritone), Walter Barylli (violin), Maria Gentile (soprano) The Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent, "Di Ballo" Overture Sullivan Sullivan’s ‘t Overture to the Ball". was composed for the Birmingham Festival when he was twenty-eight years old. It

consists entirely of dance rhythms and in this sense it may be said to have some relation to the old overtures and suites with several movements of the eighteenth century, when the dance measures of that period were used as a base for instrumental music. This Overture, however, is much lighter in tone, the tunes are jolller and more delicate, while the orchestration is full of grace and colour, 8.10 Robert Couzinou (baritone), "The Three Hussars" Lionnet "The Two Grenadiers " Schumann 8.18 The Orchestra, conducted by Sir Edward Elgar, "Crown of India" Suite Elgar Introduction and Dance-of the Nautch Girls Minuet Warriors’ Dance March of the Mogul Emperors 8.30 Walter Barylli (violin), "Brilliant Variations for G String" .....-..,.. Paganini 8.36 The Orchestra, conducted by Sir Edward Elgar, "Wand of Youth Suite" No. 2 Elgar Little Bells Moths and Butterflies Fountain Dance Tame Bears Wild Bears When Elgar was twelve years old he wrote some music for a children’s play. Nearly forty years later he took some of this music and re-worked it and arranged it in the form of two orchestral suites"The Wand of Youth" Suites, Nos. 4 and 2, The names of the movements are self-explanatory. The entire suite abounds ‘in sympathetic and charming humour, 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Edward Elgar, "Symphony No. 1 in A Flat Major," Op. 55 ...... Elgar 10.10 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 10.45 Reserved 10.50 Music, Mirth and Melody 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN Qt Y 1140 k.c. 263m, 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 Rosalie and Her Romances j 8.30 Records at random, interrupted at 9.0 p.m. for "Night Nurse," and again at 9.30 for " Homestead on the Rise" 10. O Three Recitalists: Vienna Boys Choir, Larry Adler (mouth-organ), and the Bar Trio 10.30 Close down

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al INVERCARGILL 680 k.c. 441 m. 7. Oa.m. Breakfast session 9. 0-10.0 Morning programme 11. 0 Recordings 12. 0 Luncheon session 1.30-2.30 p.m. Educational session froin 2YA 5. O Dance music 6.30 Children’s session: David and Dawn i and the Sea Fairies 5.45 Light music 6. 0 ‘Personal Column" 6.15 Reserved 6.46 ‘The Moonstone" 7. O Re-broadcast of OMfcial News 7.10 (approx.) After dinner music (7.30, station announcements) 8. 0 Book taik by H. B. Farnall, City Librarian 8.16 ‘" Khyber" 8.45 New dance releases 8. 0 heservéd 9.30 "In the Sports Club," with Ernst Skardarasy, Ski and Winter sports Expert 9.45 Hitting the high spots 10. 0 Close down aS YAR? 940k.c. 319m. 7. Oa.m. Breakfast session 9.0 Morning programme 9.456 Reserved 10. 0-10.10 Weather report 12. 0 Luncheon music 12.30 p.m. Keserved 1.0 Weather report 1.30-2.30 Educational session from 2YA 3.0 Afternoon programme 4.0 kKeserved 4.30 Weuther and shipping news 5. O Children’s session; David and Dawn in Fairyland 5.30 Variety 6. O Winner music : 6.15 Reserved 6.30 After dinner music 7. Q News service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department 7.20 Khythm all the time 7.32 The Circle of Shiva 7.56 Strings in the Morgan manner 8.0 Dad and Dave 8.12 Chamber music: The Budapest Trio in "Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1071" (Brabmis) 8.36 = the Sports Club, interviewing B. Longmore, .secretary, N.Z. | Table Tennis Association 8.53 The Twilight Serenaders: South Sea Island Medley. No, 1 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 The Mystery Club 9.45 Do you remember? (past hit tines) , 10. 0 Close down QV inl ue nr ae m. . 0-9.0a.m. Breakfast session 44 Light music M2. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch session 5. 0 Light music 5.45 For the children, featuring " Coral Cave" 6. 0 ‘Pinto Pete" 6.15 Light music 6.45 Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay. " Dad and Dave" 7. O Re-broadcast of Government News 7.15 (approx.) Inspector Scott of Secotland Yard 8.0 ovis instrumental and vocal selections 8.15 BBC recorded programme: . " The Village Concert" 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 Light variety and dance music 10. 0 Close down

VINE 920k.c. 327m. 7. Op.m. Light music 8.0 Concert programme of chamber music, featuring ‘‘ Piano Quintet in E Flat Major’’~(Sebumann), Artur Schnabel and the Pro Arte’ Quartet 9. 0 "His Last Plunge" (episode 32) 9.15 Humorous interlude 9.30 Dance music in strict tempo 10. 0 Close down QW WELLINGTON 990 k.c. 303m. 7. Op.m. Premiere 7.35 The Crimson Trail 7.46 Ensemble: Orchestral combinations from. famous rendezvous 3 varie" 8.18 2YD Singers 8.45 A _ sportsmen’s intelligence test (No. 7) 9. 65 Piccadilly on parade 9.20 Console-ation (the organist’s point of view) 9.356 Youth must have its swing. A weekly session of modern rhythm for swing enthusiasts conducted by * Radiogram " 10. O Close down |Z AUCKLAND 1250 k.c. 240m, 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular selections 6.46 Station notices 7. 0 Sports session: Bill Hendry 7.45 "The Life of Cleopatra" 8. 0 Concert hour 8. 0 Orchestral numbers 9.30 Ballads of the concert platform 10. 0 Close down f = Feat