THURSDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 December 1939, Page 31

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WV AUCKLAND 650 k.c. 462 m. 7. 0am. BREAKFAST SESSION 9.0 Close down 10. O Devotional service, conducted by Rev. G. Moreton 10.15 Selected recordings 11. O Talk to women by "Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 12. 0 Running commentary on the Auckland Racing Club’s meeting, relayed from Ellerslie racecourse 2. Op.m. Selected recordings 3.15 Sports results 4.0 Special weather report for farmers 4.30 Sports results 5.0 Children’s session, conducted by " Cinderella " 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "The Old Marches for Ever’ (Robrecht); "Fiddlin’ the Fiddle’ (Rubinof]); "Triana" (Albeniz); "Stealing Through the Classics’ (arr. Somers); "The Swatliows’ (Strauss); "A Kiss in Spring’ (Kalman); Zigeuner You Have Stolen My Heart’ (EgenCrothe); "I Live for Love’ (Abraham); "The Dancing Violin’ (Lohr-Markgraf); "The Flight of the Bumble Bee’ (RimskyKorsakov); "Sweet Adeline’ (Kern). 6.55 Weather report 7. 0 NEWS AND REPORTS 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Mr. Chalmers, K.C.: "The Bannister Case" (chapter 1) A further exploit of that very contident and very’ successful _ barristerdetective, Royston Chalmers. First interviewing his client and learning the details of the case; then, often at considerable risk to himself, going down the tortuous byways of the criminal underworld to complete his evidence, Royston Chalmers and his faithful clerk, Hamilton, often succeed where the police have been forced to confess themselves baltld.

8.15 "Wandering with the West Wind " And now our friend the Wayfarer wil! try to satisfy a little of the wanderlust in most of us with a chat about the highways and byways of the world which he has travelled in his wanderings with the West Wind. 8.45 "The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s " 9.0 Reserved 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 Louis Levy and his Gaumont British Symphony, "Shall We Dance? " Selection Gershwin 9.31 "Dad and Dave" 9.44 "Theatre Box": Interrupted Harmony, featuring the Filmer Boys and George Mathews, comedian 9.57 Philip Green and his Orchestra, " Blaze Away" ... Holzmann 10. O Jan Savitt and his Tophatters, with vocal interludes by the Merry Macs 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN | y x 880k.c. 341m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7.0 After dinner music 8. 0 Chamber music hour: Flonzaley Quartet, "Quartet in D Flat Major" (Dohnanyi) 8.24 Herbert Janssen (baritone): Songs by Hugo Wolf 8.32 Alfred Cortot and Jacques Thibaud (piano and violin), Sonata in A Major" (Cesar Franck) 9. 0 Classical recitals 10. O Variety 10.30 Close down

AY | WELLINGTON | 570 k.c. 526 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. 0 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. 0 Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28to10.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 Talk by Elsie K. Morton: "H. V. Morton at Home" Possibly H. V. Morton may be described as the most popular writer of travel books in our time. He made his naine as the result of going round England for the Daily Express to see what he could pick up. The articles were so successful that they were put into book form — thus began the series of books bearing his name. Mr. Morton has done England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Palestine. Miss Elsie K. Morton met ter namesake when she visited England recently, and in this talk she will tell listeners what he and his home are like. 12. 0 Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators 2. 0 Classical hour 3.0 Sports results Selected recordings 3.28to3.30 Time signals Weather report for farmers 4.0 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session, conducted by Uncle Peter 5.45 DINNER SESSION: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "Bagatelle" (Rixner); ‘"Fluster Mir Ins Ohr’ (Aladar); "Pritzel Dolls" (Rauls); "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" (arr. Quilter); "My Treasure’ (Becucci, arr. Chapuis); ‘Prelude’ (Haydn Wood); "Terence’s Farewell to Kathleen" (arr. Gibbons); "Forest Idyll" (Esslinger); "Unter Papeln in Badascony’’ (Lajos); "For Love of You’’ (Franz Vienna); "From Near and Far’ Waltz. Melodies (arr. Hohne); "Frog Parade’ (Heykens); "Love was Born Like a Wonder’ (Doelle); "The Hermit" (Schmalstich); "The Frog’s Wedding" (Bell); ""‘When Autumn Will Slowly Come Again" (Richter). 6.55 Weather report 7. 0 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.28to7.30 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 CONCERT PROGRAMME From the Exhibition studio: Hoffmeister’s Hawaiian Quintet, "Night and Day" Cole Porter "Song of the Islands" . King 8. 8 Recordings: Jim Davidson and the ABC Dance Orchestra, "Back to Tipperary Days" Bimbo-Lumsdaine |

8.11 Cicely Audibert (soprano), "Ay Ay Ay" ... Traditional "Star of Love" .... Ponce "Fragile Things" . Phillips "Love at First Sight" Bryan 8.23 Recordings: Harry Horlick and his or. chestra, "Yankee Princess" Waltz Kalman 8.26 Arthur Askey (comedy vocal) "All to Specification " Wilcock-Rutherford 8.29 Hoffmeister’s Hawaiian Quintet, "Duke Kahanamoku" Bright "Solitude" ...... Ellington 8.35 Recording: Toralf Tollefsen (accordion), "Invitation to the Waltz" Weber 8.38 Thomas West (tenor), "Song of Songs" .... Moya "O Sole Mio" .... di Capua "Giannina Mia" .... Friml 8.48 Recordings: H. Robinson Cleaver (organ), "Gracie Fields Melodies" 8.51 Arthur Askey (comedy vocal) "The Cuckoo" ...... Sonin 8.54 Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra, "The Vagabond King" selectiem... 0i5.6s sein: SE 9.0 Reserved 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 Vera Martin (contralto) presents, "Songs of Old London" By Herbert Oliver "Buy My Strawberries" "Down Vauxhall Way " "The Nightingales of Lin« coln’s Inn" ( "May Day at Islington" 9.40 "Breakfast with the Bullfinches." By Ursula Branston In this programme is told the history of an English family, over sixty surprising years. Produced by William MacLurg, with music by various composers, and recorded from the London Studios of the BBC. 10.10 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11.12 CLOSE DOWN 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 Chamber music hour, featuring at 8.20, "Quartet in D Minor" (Mozart), played by the Flonzaley Quartet Q@ Merry and bright (light variety) 10. 0 In order of appearance: Light recitals by Charlie Kunz (pianist) George Baker. (baritone), an Louis Voss and his orchestra 10.30 Close down

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OV CHRISTCHURCH | | 720 k.c: 416m. | 7. Oam. BREAKFAST SESSION 9.0 Close down 10. 0 Selected recordings 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Selected recordings 11. 0 Talk to women by " Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 41.15 Talk under the auspices of the Christchurch Branch of the : National Council of Women 42. O Lunch music 2. Op.m. Selected recordings Progress reports of Canterbury Lawn Tennis Championships 3.0 Classical music 4.0 Frost and special weather forecast and light musical programme 4.30 Sports resulis 5.0 Children’s session: "Kiwi Club" 6.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "Fra Diavolo’ (Auber); "Yowre All 1 Need" (Kahn-Kaper-Jurmann); "‘Mtkado"’ (Sullivan); "Song of the Vagabonds" (Friml); "The Good Old Days’ (Koek); "Tina’ (Rubens); ‘Nautical Moments"

(arr. Winter); ‘Etude No. 7° (Chopin); ‘La Cimarosiana"’ (Cimarosa); ‘Radetzky March" (Strauss). 6.55 Weather report 7.0 NEWS AND REPORTS 8.0 "The Woman in White." A dramatisation of Wilkie Collins’s thriller by George Edwards and Company 8.15 "Personal Column." Drama from the agony column of a newspaper 8.27 "The Twelve Labours of Hercules." "The Final Task." Dramatic series with a comedy flavour produced by the National Broadcasting Service Mr. Hector E. R. Cousins, known to his friends as "Here" — his initials being one reason and his size another — undertakes to perform twelve tasks similar to those of the mythical Hercules, in order to satisfy a whim of his fiancée. In these tasks Hector is ably assisted by Bartholomew, an old family retainer whose services he inherited, together with live thousand pounds, from an ancient and eccentric uncle, The adventures of Hector and Bartholomew, with interruptions by an inquisitive but. likeable newspaper woman, Jean Moreland, muke most enjoyable listening. 9. O Reserved 9.20 Weather forecast and station notices 9.25 "Night Club." Presenting music by Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra: A cabaret broadcast by one of America’s most popular dance bands 10.0 DANCE MUSIC 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN SV CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Selected recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8.0 Band programme with humorous interludes J 8.32 Musical comedy favourites 9.0 BBC recorded programme: " The Vicar’s Concert Party" 9.18 The Two Gilberts 9.21 Wiener Schrammel Quartet 9.30 David Copperfield (episode 36) 8.48 Edith Evans and John Gielgud in an excerpt from ‘‘ The Importance of Being Earnest" 9.54 Ninon Vallin 10. 0 A merry half-hour 40.30 Close down

ANY DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7.0 NEWS AND REPORTS 9. 0 Close down 10. O Weather report for aviators Selected recordings 10.15 Devotional Service 10.50 Talk to women by " Margaret" 12. O Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators Weather forecast 2. GO 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 Big Brother Bill 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) ‘Sulamith’ (Miude); "The Teddy Bears’ Picnic" (Bratton); "Madrigale’ (Simonettt); "Mon Bijou" (Paige); "Mignoneile"’ (Nicholls); "Moonlight on the Alster’ (Fetras); "Song of My Heart’ Selection; "Munich Beer’ (Komzak); "Cherry Blossom’ (Alhert); "Allegro Appassionato" (Saint-Saens); "Evening Bells’ (Billi); "Murmuring Breezes" (Jensen); "Matlinata" (Leoncavalto); "Ballroom Whispers’ (Helmund); "Poranek" (Lindsay); "Handel in ithe Strend" (Grainger). 7. 0 BREAKFAST SESSION 8.0 "ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES" A recorded pantomime presented by an outstanding cast of overseas artists, re-intro-ducing old pantomime favourites of yesteryear. 9. 0 Reserved 920 Weather report and station notices 9.25 MUSICAL COMEDY GEMS Lamoureux Concert Orchestra, "The Comedy of the Wash Tub" Overture .... Dupont 9.29 Nelson Eddy (baritone), "Tramp, Tramp Tramp Along The Highway" .... Herbert 9.32 Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy (duet), "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" Herbert 9.35 The Salon Group, "Kiss Me Again" . Herbert 9.39 Frank Westfield’s Orchestra, "Our Miss Gibbs" Selection Monckton

9.45 Harold Williams and chorus, "Song of the Vagabonds" Friml Like many another singer, Harold Williams (born in Sydney in 1893), began as a boy soprano, and was able to buy his first suit of clothes out of his earnings. This was when he was eleven, aud he was very proud of it because his parents at that time were living in rather Straitened circumstances, Like most healthy. boys, Harold was, however, touch more interested in sport. In 1913, he played for New South Wales against the All Blacks, and at cricket be played for the famous Sydney Waverley Club. 9.48 Ninon Vallin and Andre Bauge, "Waltz Song" ...... Lehar 9.51. Von Dombrowska Quartet, "You are The Smiling HapDinesge ss oa case eee 9.54 The BBC Dance Orchestra, "A Musical Comedy Waltz Concoction" ...... arr. Hall 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 41.0 Close down al y 1140 k.c. 263m, 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 "Rosalie and her Romances" 8.30 Dancing time 9. 0 Night Nurse 9.13 Records at random 9.30 "Homestead on the Rise" 10. O Three recitals: Robert Naylor (tenor), Edith Lorand Viennese Orchestra, Lew White dramatisations i 40.80 Close down

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aly INVERCARGILL 680 k.c. 441 m. 7. O-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session 11. O Recordings 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon session 5. O DPDance music 6.30 Children’s session: "David and Dawn in Fairyland " 6.45 Light music 6.0 ‘Personal Column" 6.15 Reserved 6.46 ‘The Moonstone" 7. 0 After dinner music 7.30 station announcements 8.0 sydney Torch (organ 8.16 ‘ Khyber," *"‘The Mystery of K.21" 8.45 New dance releases 9. 0 Reserved 9.30 "In the Sports Club with W. E. Astill, prominent cricketel recorded during the tour of sii Julien. Cahn’s teat) 9.48 Fun and frolic 10. 0 Close down Sz 940k.c. 319m. 7. Oam. Breakfast session 9.0 Morning programme 9.45 hKeserved 10. 0-10.10 Weather report 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon tmusic 12.30 lieserved 41.0 Weather report 3.0 Afternoon programme 4. 0 lheserved 4.30 Weather and shipping news 5. O Children’s session: David and Dawn in Fairyland (episode 1) 6.30 Light variety 6. 0 Dinner music 6.15 heserved 7.20 "Khythm all the Time" 7.32 "Silas Marner" 7.45 Chamber music, by Vaughan Williams, featuring the Buyd Neel String Orchestra, playing " Concerto in D Minor for Violin ana: String Orchestra" 8.1 The Westminster Abbey Choir, conducted by Ernest Bullock, in kyrie from ‘Communion Service in G Minor" 8.6 The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, | playing " Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis" 8.21 In the Sports Club, interviewing c. E. ("Stump’’) Claridge, about. swimming 8.43 Iiawaiian echoes 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 ‘Lorna Doone" (episode 4) 9.32 Do you remember? (Past hit | tunes) 10. 0 Close down QV ir] 760 k.c. 395m. 7. 0-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session 41. 0 Light music 412. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch session 5. O Light music 5.45 For the children, featuring ‘* Coral Cave " 6.0 "Pinto Pete in Arizona" 6.15 Light music 6.45 Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay "Dad and Dave" 7.0 Light music 7.15 (approx.) Inspector Scott of Scotland Yard: ‘*"* The Case of the Clock of Doom" 8. 0 Light popular programme: Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orcheson "Cuban Overture" (Gershwin :

8.14 8.43 8.49 9. 0 9.20 10. 0 BBC recorded sketcii: "Breakfast with the Bulifinches " Kaymende and his Band o’ Banjoes Donald Novis (light vocal) Reserved Light variety and dance music Close down AYA = eS . 7. O-p.m. Light music 8. 0 So99 ao. ooado Coneert programme of chamber music; The Budapest String Quartet plays Beethoven’s " Quartet in E Minor" * His Last Plunge" (40) Humorous interlude Dance music in strict time Close down ODV/py WELLINGTON 990 k.c. 303m. Op.m. Premiere The Crimson Trail Ensemble; Orchestral combinations from famous rendezvous " Thrills "’ The 2YD Singers "The Centennial Regatta." A chat with Clive Highet, rear-commodore, Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club Console-ation (the organist’s point of view) A Soldier of Fortune Youth must have its swing Close down |Z AUCKLAND 1250 k.c. 240 m. 5. Op 7. 0 7.45 8. 0 9. 0 0. 0 Light orchestral and popular Sports session: ‘‘ Bill" Hendry "The Life of Cleopatra" Concert programme Old time dance Close down