THURSDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 31

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lV AUCKLAND 650 k.c. 462 m. 7. Oam. BREAKFAST SESSION 9.0 Close down 10. 0 Deyotional service 10.15 Selected recordings 11. 0 "Bits and Pieces:" A talk by ’ "Tsobel" 11.10 Selected recordings 12.0 Lunch music 2. Op.m. Selected recordings 2.30 Classical hour 3.15 Sports results 3.30 Light musical programme 4.0 Special weather report for farmers 4.30 Sports resulis 5.0 Children’s session, conducted by " Cinderella " 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption by (re-broadcasts) "Le Carnival Romain" (Berlioz); "Minuet" (Mozart); "My Heart's Melody’’ (Gellin); "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Kern); "Amoureuse" (Berger); ‘‘Kleines Ballett’’ (Brau); "Music of the Spheres’ (J. Strauss); "Gipsy Eyes’’ (Russian Gipsy Air); "The King Steps Out" (Kreisler); "Deep River" (Trad.); "Bal Masque" (Fletcher); "Molly on the Shore" (Grainger); "Two Jolly Fellows" (Conti); ‘Policeman's Holiday" (Ewing).

6.55 Weather report 7.0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.40 Recorded talk: "What Shall We Eat? — Food and the Family " By Dr. Elizabeth Bryson 8.0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Mr. Chalmers, K.C.: "The Livingstone Case" (Chapter 1 A further exploit of that very confident and very successful barrister detective, 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 evi--dence, Royston Chalmers and his faithful clerk, Hamilton, often succeed where the police have been forced «to confess themSelves baffled. 8.15 "Wandering with the West Wind" And now our kindly nomad artist, the Wayfarer, will take us for another ramble on the highways and byways of the world. 8.45 "The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s" The long-suffering Dr. Pim has another spot of bother with his prize pupils, Greenbottle, Stanforth, and Bothamley. 9.0 Reserved 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 Recordings: Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, "Marching with the Grenadiers " 9.33 "Dad and Dave"

10. 0 11. 0 Foden’s Motor Works Band, "Harry Lauder Medley " | Lauder "Plantation Medley " Peter Dawson (bass-baritone) "With a Song" ...... May Massed Brass Bands, "March of the Herald" Nicholls ~on Parade ®. . >. :.. Gatty An hour of modern dance music, featuring the Bands of Tommy Dorsey, Bob Crosby and Artie Shaw, with vocal interludes by Dorothy Lamour and Vera Lynn CLOSE DOWN DY 3 Avexcann 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 8. 0 8.12 8.18 8.46 8.52 9. 0 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music Chamber music hour: Watson Forbes (viola), Myers Foggin (piano), ‘‘Sonata in D for Viola and Piano" (Richard Walthew) Parry Jones (tenor) Frederick Thurston (clarinet), with the Griller String Quartet, "Clarinet Quintet" (Arthur Bliss) Mark Raphael’ (baritone), " Music when Soft Voices Die," " Love’s Philosophy," ‘I Dare Not Ask a Kiss," "The Jealous Lover’ (Quilter) London Chamber Orchestra, "Capriol" Suite (Peter Warlock) Classical recitals Variety Close down i

AN / WELLINGTON 570 k.c. 526 m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. © BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. O Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28 to10.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 "Our Friends in the Insect World": by " Belinda" 12. 0 Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators 2. O Classical hour 3.0 Sports results Selected recordings 3.28 to3.30 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) "Kings of the Waltz’; "Portrait of a Toy Soldier" (Ewing); "In the Chapel in the Moonlight’ (Hill); "Intermezzo Pizzicato"’ (Montague. Birch); "Cara Mia’ (Zalden); "Faery Song’ (Rutland Boughton); "Musical Box Miniatures" (arr. Walter); "For Love Alone"’ (Thayer); "Jealousy"’ (Gade); "Cuatro Milpas’" (de Campo); "Le Canari"’ (Poliakin); "Crocus Time’ (de la Riviere); "Love in a Bunch of Roses" (Ballard-Capi); "Fountain" (Herbert-Kuster); "Little Lantern" (Lincke); ‘Japanese Carnival’’ (Andre de Basque); "Moment Musical" (Schubert).

6.55 Weather report 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 7.40 8.18 "Roberta" film. selection "Who’s Who and What’s What?" A _ ramble in the news by " Coranto" TALK by the Book Reviewer: " Books Grave and Gay " CONCERT PROGRAMME From the Exhibition studio: | Recording: Nathaniel Shilkret Orchestra, "Music in the Air" medley Kern Thomas West (tenor), "Marta" ... Gilbert-Simons "You Will Remember Vienna" Romberg "Serenade" ........ Lehar Recording: Reginald Dixon (organ), Kern |

8.21 8.32 8.42 8.44 9.25 Arthur Eaton (xylophone), "O Joy" ........ Schroeder "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" Friedmann "Tron Division" march Kiefer Recording: Bob Hope and Shirley Ross (vocal duet), "The Lady’s in Love With You" ........ Lane-Loesser Henry Rudolph (saxophone), "Shadows on the Moon" Romberg "Desert Song" selection Romberg (Introducing "The Desert Song," "Riff Song" and "One Alone ") Henry Rudolph (accordion), "Student Prince" selection. Romberg Nathaniel Shilkret Orchestra, "Italian Airs" medley Maori programme, by mem. bers of visiting tribes and Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club Reserved Weather report and station notices Programme by the NBS String Orchestra The Orchestra, conducted by Maurice Clare. Leader: Vincent Aspey, ." Concerto in A Major for Solo Violin, Echo Violin and Strings" .......... Vivaldi Recordings: The Royal Choral Society, . "Gloria in Excelsis Deo"

9.47 a 0 11.0 Bach (From "Mass in B Minor ") The NBS String Orchestra, "Giant Fugue" ...... Bach "Scarlatti Suite" arr. Harrison MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY CLOSE DOWN AY G Metin 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7.0 8. Q 10. 0 After dinner music in memory of Robert Burns: A programme presented by the Welle ington Association of Scots Societies, in commemoration of the birth of Scotland’s national poet Variety calling: An hour of light popular recordings in order of appearance: Light recitals by Lewis James (organist), Tom Kinniburgh (bass), and Lil lly x = and her 20 Hungarian Gipsy irls 10.30 Close dows

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EE aa ara 720 k.c. 416m. 7. OQam. BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 9 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 the National Council of Women 11.30 Selected recordings 12. 0 Lunch music 2. Op.m. Selected recordings 3. 0 Classical music 4. 0 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) "Slavonic Dance, No. 2, in E& Minor" *‘Dvorak); "Cradle Song’ (Mozart); ""Moonlight on the Danube" (Gay); ‘"‘The Studeni Prince" Serenade (Romberg); ""Puzzta (Trad.); ""Melodious Intermezzo" (Kolscher); "Estrellita’" (Ponce); "Serenade" (Toseiti); "Schon Ist’s Bei Den Soldaten" (Richter); "One Bright Hit After the Other’ (Richartz); "The Old Gipsy’ (Trad.); Life’ Begins With Love’ (Tobias-Cooper); ‘"Marigald"’ ‘Mayerl); "Cloches De Cornevilie’’ (Plan quette); "Sanctuary of the Heart’ ‘kKetelbey); "Hungarian Medley" farr Praut), ‘Last Rose of Summer" (Moore). All programmes in this issue are copyright to The Listener, and may not be reprinted without permission. These programmes are correct as we go to press. Any last-minute alterations will be announced over ‘the air.

7. 0 THE Weather report NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 7.50 8. 0 8.15 8.30 9.25 10. 0 11. 0 NEWS AND REPORTS Sheep survey "The Woman in White." A dramatisation of Wilkie Collins’s thriller by George Edwards and Company "Personal Column." Drama from the agony column of a newspaper "Coronets of England." The Life of Henry VIII. Reserved Weather report and station notices Recorded dance programme Studio performance of dance music by Noel UHabgood’s Dance Orchestra CLOSE DOWN BY/[L, cuRisTowuRcH 1200 k.c. 250 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Selected recordings 7. 0 8. 0 9.30 9.44 9.47 9.53 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music Burns concert, under the direction of the Scottish Society of New Zealand. Burns address by the Rev. W. W. French. Address to the Haggis and commentary on the ceremony. Burns songs by leading vocalists (Relayed from the Scottish Society Hall) David Copperfield (episode 40) The Shabby Old Cabby Charlie Kunz, medley of StrausWaltzes The Green Eye of the Yellow Goda Fun for ali Close down

Z\/ 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 0.15 Wevotional Service 10.50 "Bits and Pieces" by "Isobel" (3) '2. O Lunch music 12.30 p.m. And at intervals: Running commentaries on the racing at the Forbury Park Trotting Club’s meeting (re lay from Forbury Park) 1. 0 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. O Children’s session, conducted by " Big Brother Bill" 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: | (Subject to interruption by re-broadcasts) "Caucasian Sketches,’ No. 4 (Ippolitovivanov); "My Blonde Dream’ (Doelle); "‘In Old Budapes!’ (Krish); "Charlie Kunz Medfey of Strauss Waltzes’; "Sava Chavo" ‘Trad.); "Sweethearts" (Smith Herbert); ‘Indian Summer’ Waltz (Lohr); ‘Fairy Tales" Selection (Schmidi-Hagen); ‘‘Merry Nigger’ (W. H. Squire); "Largo" (Handel); "Schon Rosmarin’ (Kreisler); ‘Russian Slumber Song’ (¢Gretchaninoff); ‘‘Almita™’ (Racho); "Sarba’" (Trad.); "Blaze Away’ (Holzmann); "Who Knows?" (Lessa and Valerio); "Sharaban" (Trad.). 6.55 Weather report 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 Concert by 4YA Concert Orchestra, conducted by Gil Dech "Ayres for the Theatre" Suite for Strings Purcell, arr. Bridgewater March Slow Ayre Gavotte Jigg Dance Trumpet Ayre 8.11 Records: Rudolph Dolmetsch (harpsichord), "Suite in G Minor" . Purcell

8.17 Keith Falkner (baritone), "If Music Be The Food Of Love," "I Love. and I Must" Purcell _ One of the most popular baritones of our time, Keith Falkner, has been singing ever since he became a chorister, at the age of nine, at New College, Oxford, under Sir Hugh Allen, After. serving as a R.N.A.S, pilot during the war, he studied with Albert Garcia at the Royal College, singing also in the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Further study with Plunket Greene, with Lierhammer in Vienna, and Madame Dossert in Paris, helped to make him the artist of wide culture that be is. 8.23 The Orchestra, "Dance of the Hours" (from "La Gioconda") . Ponchielli 8.32 Records: Charlotte Tirard (soprano), "Greater in His Obscurity " Gounod "Resplendent and Silent Night" |... ci%4%20%.s. Gounod "La Colibri" ..,, Chausson 8.43 The Orchestra, "Faust Ballet Music" Gounod 1. Waltz for Corps de Ballet 2. (a) Helen and Her Trojan Slaves (b) Cleopatra and Her Nubian Slaves . Entry of Nubian Slaves . Dance of Cleopatra . Entry of the _ Trojan Maidens Dance of Helen of Troy . (a) Bacchanale Dance of Phyrne, Finale 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 Weather report und station notices 9.25 Richard Tauber (tenor), "TI Would That My Love Might Blossom," " Venetian Gondola Song" . Mendelssohn 9.31 Joseph Szigeti and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, Concerto in E Minor, Op 64 Mendelssohn Allegro molto appassionata Andante Allegro non troppo Allegro molto vivace 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN Gl Y 1140 k.c. 263m, 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8. O Rosalie and Her Romances 8.30 Dancing time 9.13 Records at random, interrupting at 9.30 for ‘‘The Homestead on the Rise" 10. O Three recitals, featuring Howard Jacobs (saxophonist), Dora Labbette and Hubert Etsdell (vocal duet), J. H. Squire Celeste Octet 10.30 Close down om &

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AWW) INVERCARGILL 680 k.c. 441 m. 7. 0-9.15 a.m. (approx.) Breakfast ses11. 0 sion Recordings 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon session 5. 0 5.30 5.45 6. 0 6.15 6.45 7. 0 7.10 7.30 8. 0 8.15 8.41 9. 0 8.30 9.45 10. 0 Light music Children’s session: "David and Dawn in Fairyland" Light music "Personal Column" Reserved "The Moonstone" Re-broadcast of oMecial news (approx.) After dinner music Station announcements Book talk, by H. B, Farnall, City Librarian "khyber: Saved and Lost" "A Nicht wi’ Burns" Reserved "In the Sports Club: Dr. G. J. V. Anson discusses the Gun Dog Trials" Fun and frolic Close down SAR at ae er 7. Oam. Breakfast session 9. oO Morning programme 10. 0-10.10 Weather report 12. 0-2.0p.m. Luncheon music 12.30 1.0 3.0 4. 0 4.30 5. 0 Dawn 5.30 5.45 6.15 6.40 7.0 Minister’s Department Reserved Weather report Afternoon programme Reserved Weather report Children’s session; "David and in Fairyland" Tea dance Dinner music Reserved After dinner entertainment News service issued. by the Prime

7.20 ‘London Suite" | 7.382 "Silas Marner’ | 7.45 Rhythm all the Time | 8.0 Chamber music: Lener String / Quartet, "Quartet in G@ Minor" / (Debussy) 8.30 "Sportsmen’s Intelligence Test" (No. 4) | 8.42 Vaudeville entertains | 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 "Lorna Doone"’ |} 9.382 Revival Time: Past hit tunes 10. O Close down | Qin a aT or m. 7. 09.0 a.m. Breakfast session 11. 0 Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch session 5. 0 Light music | 545 For the children, featuring "Cora! : Cave’’ 6. 0 "Pinto Pete in Arizona" 6.15 Light music 6.45 "Dad and Dave" 7. 0 Re-broadcast of Government News 7.15 (approx.) Inspector Scott of Scotland Yard: "The Case of the Secret Formula" 8. 0 Concert session: The Lang-Worth Military Band 8.10 Miliza Korjus (soprano) 8.18 Excerpts from the "Merchant of Venice Suite," played by John Barbirolli’s. Orchestra 8.30 Joseph Hislop (tenor) 8.45 Erica Morini (violin) 9. 0 Reserved 9.20 Light variety and dance music 10. 0 Close down 2 Y iN] 920 k.c. 327m. 7. Op.m. Light music 8..0 Concert programme of. chamber music, featuring "Piano Quintet in E Flat Major" (Schumann), played by Artur Schnabel and the Pro Arte Quartet; ‘"Dichterliebe," parts i-10 (Schumann), sung by Gerhard Huseh (baritone) , 9.0 His Last Plunge 9.15 Humorous interlude 9.30 "In Strict Tempo," music for dancing 10. O Close down QW WELLINGTON 990 k.c. 303m. p.m. Premiere The Crimson Trail Ensemble * Thrills " 2YD Singers Dad and Dave Console-ation. From the organist’s point of view Soldier of Fortune Youth must have its Swing Close down abn" bw NOONDGO COD MMMONNIN = wo cocoa 2 AUCKLAND 1250k.c, 240m. 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular items 6.45 Orchestral selections rf Sports session: "Bill" Hendry 7.45 "The Life of Cleopatra" 8.0 "A Nicht Wi’ Burns," presented by J. G. Kerr 8. O Scottish old time dances 10. 0 Close down