THURSDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 35, 23 February 1940, Page 31

THURSDAY

NATIONAL

FEBRUARY 29

hy AUCKLAND 650 k.c. 462 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 7. 0 Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Daventry news 10. 0 Devotional service 10.15 Selected recordings 11. O "Still Outside the Pale: Women at Cambridge": by Miss Ida Lawson 11.10 Selected recordings 12. O Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 2. 0 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: "The School Lunch Problem " 3.45 Light musical programme 4. 0 Daventry news, followed by special weather report for farmers 4.30 Sports results 5..0 Children’s session, conducted by " Cinderella " 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15 p.m.) 4 Garfem of Roses’; "Gently, Ever so Gently’ (Stanke); "Blue Serenade’ (Mills); "Free and Easy’ (Porschmann); ‘Sylvia’ (Speaks); "‘La Folletia’ (Marchesi); "The, First Letter’ (Reggov); ‘"‘Nights at the Baliet" No. 4; "the Sleeping Beauly" (Tchaikovski); ‘"‘Maria. Mari’ (di Capua); "Aquarium Suite’ (Mayerl); "The First Flower in the Garden’ (Heykens); "Flower of Dawn’; ‘‘Mattinata’ (Leoncavallo). 6.55 Weather report 7.0 NEWS. SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S| DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL: WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.40 Recorded Talk: " What Shall We Eat?: Fun and Freshness " by Elizabeth Bryson 8.0 CONCERT PROGRAMME "Mr. Chalmers, K.C.": "The Verona Case" (Chapter 2) Royston Chalmers, K.C., is both ~barrister and detective. As a barrister he accepts only cases in which he is absolutely convinced that his client is innocent. Then as a detective, with the loyal assistance of his faithful secretary, Hamilton, he proceeds to obtain for himself sufficient evidence to uphold his own belief in his client’s innocence. Some exciting stories result from these activities. 8.15 "Wandering with the West Wind" And now let us go wandering with the West Wind on the highways and byways of the world, under the guidance of that kindly nomad philosopher, the Wayfarer. 8.45 "Fourth Form at St. Percy’s" 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices

9.31 9.44 9.53 10. 0 11. 0 Recordings: Band of H.M. Welsh Guards, "H.M.S. Pianofore " Selection Sullivan "Dad and Dave" Recordings: Band of H.M. Welsh Guards, Cornet and euphonium solos with Band accompaniment Layton and Johnstone (duettists), "So Shy" ......... Samuels Grand Massed Brass Bands, "The Blue Danube" . Strauss "Soldiers’ Chorus" .. Gounod An hour of modern dance music, featuring Al Donahue and his Orchestra,, and Al Kavelin and his. Cascading Chords, with vocal interludes by Dick Todd Close of normal programme. (During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. Daventry news: 11.30) 26 "eee 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7.0 8. 0 8.12 8.16 8.28 8.36 9.0 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music Chamber music. hour: Lionel Tertis (viola), and ‘George © Reeves (piano), ‘‘ Sonata No. 2", (Delius). Nancy Evans (contralto), -‘‘Blaweary,’ "You Are My Sky" (Gurney) The Jacques’ String Orchestra, "St. Paul’s Suite" (Holst) Dora Labbette (soprano), , "Cradle Song,’ "The Nightingale," "Evening Voices"? (Delius). Frederick Grinke (violin), Kendall Taylor (piano), and Florence Hooton (’cello),.."*Trio No. 3 in E" (John Ireland) Classical hour Variety Close down

AYIA WELLINGTON | 570 k.c. 526 m. | 6. Oam. Station on the air for Daventry news 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7. O Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Daventry news 9.10 Selected recordings 10. O Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28to0 10.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 "Bits and Pieces": A talk by " Isobel" 12. 0 Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 1.0 Weather report for aviators 1.30 EDUCATIONAL SESSION "The Changing World": By the School Reporter 1.40 "Poetry For Juniors" Recital 1: By Mrs. Craig McKenzie iY "How Animals Live" By D. W. McKenzie £10 " Azt ™.s): -By Roland Hipkins 2.30 Classical music 3. 0 "Sports results Selected recordings 3.28to3.30 Time signals Weather report for farmers 4.0 Daventry news 5. O Children’s session, conducted by Uncle Peter 5.45 DINNER SESSION: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15 p.m.) "Madame Bulterfly’’ (Puccini-Tavan); "Vivere"’ (Bixio); ‘Marche Heroique’"’ (SaintSaens); ‘Sailor's Hornpipe" (arr. Hartley); "Vision" (Rixner); ‘Medley of Serenades" ; "fales from the Orient’ (Strauss); ‘Valse Septembre’ (Godin); ""Rustle of Spring" (Sinding); "Valse of Vienna’ (Bela-Radicz); "Capricious intermezzo’’ (de Micheli); "Viennese Bon Bons’ (Strauss); ‘ You're Laughing at Me" (Berlin); "Spring in Japan" (Ohno); "El Capitan’ (Sousa). 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 "Who’s Who and What’s What?": A ramble in the news by " Coranto " 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME From. the Exhibition Studio: Recording: The BBC Variety Orchestra, "Curtain Up" ...... Wood

8.20 8.23 8.38 8.41 9. 0 9.20 10. 0 11. 0 MAORI PROGRAMME By members of visiting tribes and Ngati Poneke Young Maori. Club Recording: Albert Sandler Trio (instrumental), "Shy Serenade " Scott Wood Grace Adams East (American trumpet virtuoso) Recording: H. Robinson Cleaver (organ), "Cleaver Hits" (No. 1) Jessie Shaw (contralto), "The Harvester’s Night Song" Bainton-Power "Bless This House" ...Brahe "String of Pearls" . Phillips Recording: Lew Stone and his Band, ~ | "Under Your Hat" Selection Ellis-Hulbert Daventry news Weather report and station notices "Nights at the Savoy": Scenes from the lively Gilbert and Sullivan operas MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY Close of normal programme During the war the station will be on the air until, 12 midnight. (Daventry news 11.30) ’ 2Y nit by wich i . 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 8. 0 9. 0 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music Chamber music hour, featuring at 8.24, "Quartet in F Major, Op. ;22" (Tchaikovski), played by. the Budapest String Quartet Stars of the Air: An hour of light popular variety recordings As They Come: Light recitals by the Three’ Virtuosos on ~* three pianos, Evelyn Laye (soprano), and the Leslie Bridgewater Quintet — Close down

THURSDAY

NATIONAL

SV, CHRISTCHURCH | | 720 k.c. 416m. 6. Oa.m. Station on. the: air for 7. 0 7.10 9. 0 10. 0 10.30 10.45 11. 0 11.10 11.15 11.30 12. 0 Daventry news Daventry news BREAKFAST SESSION Daventry news Selected recordings Devotional! Service Selected recordings "Bits and Pieces" bv Isobel Selected recordings TALK under the auspices of the Christchurch branch ‘of the National Council of Women Selected recordings Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 12.45 (approx.) Progress reports on 1.0 2.0 2.30 Po oo Hawarden ewe fair Lunch music Selected recordings TALK, prepared by the Association for Country Education: Home Science Tutorial Section: "The Schoo! Lunch 'roblem " Classical music Daventry news, followed by special weather report for farmers 4.30 Sports results Children’s session: ‘" Kiwi Club and Rainbow Man" DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15 p.m.) "The Merrymakers" (Cvates); "Serenade" (Romberg); ‘Feierabend in Dorf" (Schimmelpfennig); "Songe DAutomne" (Joyce); "Under the Rainbow" (Waldileu/fel); *Moltty on the Shore" (arr. Grainger); "The Song is You" (Hammerstein); ‘Ra ph Benatzky Selection"; ‘"‘There’s Something in the Air’ (McHugh); "Old Vienna Melodies" (Pollack);

" Blauer Schmetteling " (Sletnbacher); "Trotka Driver’. (Winkler); ‘Vienna, City of My Dreams" (Sieczynski); ‘Spring’ (Hildach), "Soiree D’Ete’’ (Waldteufet): "Waltz of the Flowers’ (Tchaikovski), 6.55 Weather report 7.0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (Including a report on the Hawarden ewe fair) 8.0 "The Woman in White." -A ’ -dramatisation of Wilkie Collins’s thriller, by George Edwards and Company 8.15 "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" | The radio version of a famous _ story which had great popularity in book and magazine form nearly half a ‘century ago. The action takes place in Melbourne and the thrilling story of the mystery of the murder in the Hansom Cab, and its ultimate solution, makes entertaining and exciting listening. 8.29 "Coronets of England": The Life of Henry VIII. 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 "Night Club": A cabaret on relay, featuring Henry King and his orchestra 11. O Close of normal programme. (During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. Daventry news 11.30) OY CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m, Selected recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8.0 Band programme, with spoken iInterludes 8.33 Musical comedy 9.30 David Copperfield (episode 45) 70. O Fun for all 10.30 Close down

ANY DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7. O Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Daventry news 10. O Weather report for aviators | Selected recordings 10.15 Devotional Service 10.50 "Bit and Pieces" by "Isobel" (9) 12. O Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 1. 0 Weather report for aviators Weather forecast 1.30 EDUCATIONAL SESSION: "The Changing World," by the School Reporter 1.40 "Poetry for Juniors," recital 1, by Mrs. Craig McKenzie 1.52 "How Animals Live" (3), by D. W. McKenzie 2.10 "Art" (3), by Roland Hipkins 2.30 Selected recordings 3.30 Sports results Classical music 4. 0 Daventry news Weather report and special frost forecast 4.30 Light musical programme 4.45 Sports results 5. O Children’s’. session: Mouth Organ Band and Mr. Stampman 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15 p.m.) "In Indra’s Land" (Lincke); "Manhattan Moonlight" (Aller); "Eva’ (Lehar); "Ye Merry Blacksmith" (Bellon); "Jugentiebe’ (Alex); "Wallz from Vienna’ (German); "Liebesfreud"’ (Kreisler); ‘Roses of Picardy" (Wood); "In Memory of Franz Schubert’; ‘Waltz Memories’; "Juanita" (Norton); "Manhatton Serenade’ (Alter); "Turkey in the Straw’ (Hartley); "Willow Pattern’ (Lowry); "Bells at Evening" (Williams); "Trepak" (Tchaikovski). 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 Orchestral Programme of French music, featuring at 9.39, "Music from the Theatre " The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty, "King Lear Overture" Berlioz

8.14 Feodor Chaliapin (bass), in songs by Ibert "Chanson a Dulcinee " "Chanson du-Duc" "Chanson du Depart" 8.23 The New Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent, Pe isthe wee 8.35 Yehudi Menuhin ° (violin), © Feige isis cesi i ee 8.43 The Lamoureux Concert Orchestra, conducted by Albert Wolff, " Rhapsodie Espagnole " Ravel Prelude a la Nuit Malaguena Habanera Feeria Several of the French composers have given us musical impressions of Spain; Ravel is more nearly on his native héath than some of them when he does so, He was born in the lower Pyrenees. The Rhapsodie Espagnole is in four scenes, each presenting a different picture of spanish life, and the first one, called Prelude, is an impression of night. Next comes Malaguena, the national dance belonging to southern Malaga. The third is a languorous, swaying Habanera: Finally we have The Fair, a brilliant and richly varied musical picture of just such @ scene as its name conjures up. 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 The Conservatorium Society Orchestra, "Nocturne ‘ Sirenes’" Debussy 9.33 Claudine Boons (soprano), "Les Petits Anes" .. Rasse WO SS ani eee ee eee 9.39 Music from the Theatre: "Cotillon" to the music of Chabrier This is one of a series of imaginary broadcasts _ recreating the atmosphere of the theatre during the season of the Ballet 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. O Close of normal programme. (During the war the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. Daventry news: 11.30) : | y 1140k.c. 263 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 Rosalie and Her Romances 8.30 Dancing time 9.0 The Old-Time The-Ayter: "The Lighthouse Keeper," or "Caught in a Fog" 9.18 Musical ramblings 9.30 Homestead on the Rise 10. O Three recitalists, featuring Milton Herth (Hammond electric organ), Joseph Schmidt tenor), The Novelty Players (orchestra) 40.830 Close down

February 29

aly INVERCARGILL 680k.c. 441 m. 7. Oa.m. Daventry news 7.10 Breakfast session 9. 0-98.15 (approx.) Daventry news 11. 0 12. 0 Recordings Luncheon session 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 1.30-2.30 Educational session 5. 0 5:30 PAMMNDD © ow -_ °o Cone eo aoon oy dad ok Dance music Children’s session: "David . and Dawn in Fairyland" Light music "Personal Column" Daventry news "The Moonstone" Re-broadeast of oMcial news (approx.) After dinner music Station announcements "Teaching Adults to Swim," talk by J. C. Kirkland "Khyber: Rebellion" New dance releases Daventry news "Mr. Patterson, of the Wellington Patent Slip, discussing ships on dry land" Fun and frolic Close down Sa RENN Oa.m. Daventry news 710" 9. 0 9.10 10. 0 40.10-10.30 Devotional Service 412. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon programmée 12.30 Breakfast session Daventry news Morning programme Weather report Daventry news Afternoon programme Classical music Daventry news Dance hits Weather report Variety Children’s session: "David and Dawn" Hit tunes Dinner music Daventry news After dinner music Weather report, station notices | News service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department | Ivory Keys Grand Piano Orchestra. " Silas Marner" Chamber music: The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, playing " Suite for String Orchestra" (Frank Bridge) Essie Ackland (contralto), "O Lovely Night" (Ronald) The Grinke Trio, playing ‘" Trio No. 3 in E" (John Ireland) "$Sportsmen’s Intelligence Test" °. George Gershwin medley Daventry news Lorna Donoe Do You Remember? Close down NAF NAPIER 760k.c, 395m. a.m. Daventry news -2.0 p.m. Lunch session Breakfast session Daventry news Light music Daventry news Light music For the children, featuring ‘Coral Cave" "Pinto Pete in Arizona" Daventry news Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay "Dad and Dave" Re-broadcast of Government news (approx.) After dinner music Coneert session: The Light Symphony Orchestra, "Bal Masque," ‘Mon Reve" uentin MacLean ( (organ), "Edward erman Selection

= 8.17 Marie Burke (soprano), "The Romantic Noel Coward" 8.23 The Orchestre Mascotte 8.29 The Meistersextet (vocal) 8.41 Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orchestra, "An American in Parise" (Gershwin) Daventry n Close down ews 9, 0 Sar Light variety and dance music avin NELSON 920k.c. 327m, 7. Op.m. Light music 8.0 Concert programme of . chamber music: "Prelude Chorale and Fugue" (Cesar Franck), played by Alfred Cortot (piano); "Quartet in G@ Minor" Lener Strir 9. 0 9.16 Humorous i 9.30 Music for t 0.0 Close down (Debussy), played by ig Quartet "His Last Plunge" (49) nterlude he dancers ZO ELLINGTON 990 k.c. 303m, _ 7. Op.m. Premiere 7 Ensemble "Thrills" 2YD Singer of view Youth Must Close down COl mnaan e bh Pe ofa The Crimson Trail ~) "Dad and Dave" Console-ation: The organist’s point A Soldier of Fortune Have Its Swing | 2 AUCKLAND 1250k.c, 240m. . Op.m. Light orchestral and popular numbers Sports sess Good old so 0 O Close down ion: "Bill" Hendry 5 Yh 7.45 "The Life of Cleopatra" 4 O Orchestral programm? 0 ngs and dances