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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 37, 8 March 1940, Page 31

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VY AUCKLAND. 650k.c. 462m. | ) 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 7. 0 Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9.0 Daventry news 9.10 Selected recordings 10. O Devotional Service 10.15 Selected recordings 11. 0 "Bits and Pieces," by Isobel 11.10 Selected recordings 72. 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 Chemistry of Successful Jam-making " 3.45 Light musical programme 4. 0 Daventry news, followed by special weather report for , farmers 4.30 Sports results 5. O Children’s session, conducted by " Cinderella" 5.46 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15 p.m.) "Pearl O' Mine’ (Fletcher); "Fado Blanquita’ (Retana); "Stop Press’ (piano medley); "Amoretltentanse" (Gung'l); "Vienna Beauties" (Ziehrer); "Home Sweet Home’; ""Binfach Lachhaft’' (Brau); ""La Madre Del Cordero" (Jimenez); "Da Capo" (Boulanger); "The Skaters’ (Waldteufel); "The Merrymakers"’ (Pedersen); "Czardas" (Strauss); "Blue Eyes" (Mackeben); "Musica Proibita’ "Castaldon); ‘"‘TraumMelodien" (Richarts); "Princesita"’ (Padilla); "Scherzino" (Moszkowski). 6.55 Weather report 7.0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.30 WINTER COURSE TALK by the Rev. A. B. Chappell: "Our Early Colonists. 1: Who They Were" 8.0 CONCERT PROGRAMME "Mr. Chalmers, K.C.: The Verona Case" (Chap. 4) Royston Chalmers, barrister and detective, has a happy reputation for solving apparently unsolvable problems. Mr. Chalmers and his faithful clerk, Hamilton, often find themselves in very awkward situations in their quest for evidence to obtain the just verdict for their innocent clients; but Mr. Chalmers’s quick wits and = ready tongue always pull them through. : 8.15 "Wandering with the West Wind" And now Jet us go wandering with the West Wind on the highways and byways of the world under the guidance Of that kindly nemad philosopher, the Wayfarer. 845 "The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s " 9.0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices

9.31 9.44 10..0 11. 0 Recording: Regt. Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, " Euryanthe " Overture Weber "Dad and Dave" Foden’s Motor Works ‘Band, "Old Timers " Selection Stodden Malcolm McEachern (bass), "Gentlemen, Good-Night " Longstaffe Grand Massed Brass Bands, "Minstrel Memeries, No. 2" Rimmer Will Osborne and his Orchestra, with instrumental interludes by Ted Steele and his Novatones Close of normal programme. During the war the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30) TINK ABCKEAND | 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 8.0 8.24 9. 0 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music Chamber music hour: Charles Van Lancker (piano), Henry. . Koeh ' (violin), Jean Rogister > ¢viola), Mme. Lido-Rogister (’cello), ‘ Unfinished Quartet" -(Lekeu) Naney Evans (contralto), songs by Gurney: (f)° "© The’ "Scribe," (2) "Nine of the Clock 0’," (3). All Night Under the Moon," (4). " Latmian Shepherd " Reginald kell (clarinet). with the Willoughby String’ Quartet, "Clarinet Quintet in G" (Holbrooke) Classical recitals Variety Close. dowa

ON WELLINGTON | 570 k.c. 526 m. | 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for | Daventry news 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7. 0 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 10.28to010.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 "Fashion Forecast," by Lorraine 11. O Recordings 12. O Running commentaries on the events at the Wellington Racing Club’s Autumn Meeting (relayed from Trentham) (Note:- Any events run during the 12.30 or 4p.m. Daventry news, or. after 5p.m., will be broadcast by 2YC. During the Educational Session, from 1.30 to 2.30 p.m., the races will be broadcast by 2YC) 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 "Pictures in Music" (2), by Dr. A. E. Fieldhouse 1.52. "One Hundred Years" (2) Why New Zealand was Settled, by T. G. Hislop and D. W. Feehey 2.10 "Music" (1), by T. J. Young 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 MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15 p.m.) "Nights At the Ballet No. 4" "Reminiscences of Friml" "Poem" *"Remefabrance"’ (Melfi): ‘To An Oriental God" (Jalowicz); "Serenata" (Sanderson); "The Gondoliers’ (Sullivan); "A La Luz de la Luna’ (Pallas); ‘"Alegrias’" (Gomez); "Simple Little Melody" (Straus); "Grinsing" (Benatzky); "Waltz Serenade" (Tichy); *Faust- Variations" (Gounod); "Melodie" (Tchaikovski). 6.55 Weather report 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS.AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.28to 7.30 Time. signals *Who’s Who and What’s What?" A ramble in the news by "Coranto,"

8. 0 From the Exhibition Studio Recording: Louis Levy and his Gaumont British Symphony, "Take My Tip" Film Selection 8. 5 Maori programme by members of Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club 8.20 Recording: Dudley Beaven (organ), "Goldwyn Follies" Selection 8.23 Hoffmeister’s Hawaiian Quintet, "Someday Sweetheart" Spikes "Dark Eyes" "Indebted to You" 8.33 Recording: The Merry Maes (vocal trio), "Stop Beatin’ Round the Mulberry Bush" ... Boland 8.36 Grace Adams East (American trumpet virtuoso) 8.46 Recording: Tony Lowry (piano), "The Desert Song" Romberg 8.49 Frank Bermingham (baritone), "Rose Marie" ........ Friml "Serenade" (from "Lilac AO) os datas oh ad Schubert "At the Balalaika". -Posford 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and _ station notices: 9.25 "His Lordship’s Most Humble" A programme of dedications. presented by W. Roy Hill 9.45 Peter Cooper (pianist) presents: Nocturne in E Flat Major, Os. 9. NG..2 0. oes . + Chopin Valse in D Flat Major, Op. 64, TS ca. 6 de aes CORES Chopin Valse in B Minor, Op. 69, No. Be stad s has us gate he Chopin Etude in C Major, Op. 23, No. » FEES AO BSE REE 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 411. 0 Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30) 2 Y 840k.c, 357m. 4.30-2.30 p.m. Running commentaries on events of the Wellington Racing Club’s. autumn meeting, ist day (relayed from Trentham) 5. 0-6.0 Light music 7. 0 After dinner music 8.0 Chamber music hour, featuring at 0, "Quartet in C Major, op. 27" (Cundell), played by the Griller String Quartet -9. 0 Variety on the Air, an hour of bright entertainment 400 From their repertoires: Light recitals by Tino Rossi (tenor), Plaza Theatre Orchestra, The Viennese Seven Singing Sisters 10.30 Close down — ~

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BAVAG CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416m. 6. Oam. Station on the air for Daventry news 7. O Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Daventry news 9.10 Selected recordings 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Selected recordings 11. 0 "Bits and Pieces," by Isobel 11.10 Selected recordings

11.15 11 .30 12. 0 Talk under the auspices of the Christchurch Branch of the National Council of Women Selected recordings Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 1.0 2.0 2.30 Po oo 5. 0 5.45 Lunch music Selected recordings TALK, prepared by the Association for Country Education Home Science Tutorial Section: "The Chemistry of Successful Jam-making " Classical music Daventry news, followed by special weather forecast for farmers 4.30 Sports results Children’s session DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15 p.m.) ‘William Tell" (Rossint); "La Golonarina"’ (Serradell); "Spanish Serenade"

(Heykens); "Anything Goes" (Cole Porter); "Red Roses" (Ritter); "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree’ (Alsltyne-Williams); "One pay When We Were Young" (Strauss): "Champagne Bubbles’’ (Schmidt); "‘Jalousie"’ (Gade); "The Red House" (arr. Whyte); "By the Waters of Minnetonka" (Lieurance); "Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5° (Rachmaninoff); ""Amapola"’ (Lacaloe); "The Gondoliers Overture’ (Sullivan). 6.55 Weather report 7.0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 8.0 "The Woman in White." A dramatisation of Wilkie Collins’s thriller, by George Edwards and Company

"The Mystery of a Hansom Cab " "Coronets of England ": The Life of Henry VIII. Daventry news Weather report and station notices "Night Club" DANCE PROGRAMME Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30 p.m.) SY CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. 0-6.0 p.m. Selected recordings After dinner music Band programme Musical comedy "Our Feathered Friends" David Copperfield In merry mood Close down

A | VY 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 9.10 Selected recordings 10. O Weather report for aviators Selected recordings 10.15 Devotional Service 10.50 "Still Outside the Pale: Women at Cambridge," by Miss Ida Lawson (1) : 12. 0 Lunch music | 12.30 p.m. Re-broadcast of Daventry news 4.0 Weather report for aviators 1.30 EDUCATIONAL S&SSION: (Re-broadeast from 2YA) : "The Changing World," by | the School Reporter 1.40 "Pictures in Music" | (2), by Dr. A. E. Fieldhouse | 1.52 "One Hundred Years". (2) Why New Zealand was Settled, by T. G. Hislop and D. W. Feehey 2.10 "Music" (1), by T. J. Young 2.30 Selected recordings 3.30 Sports results Classical music 4.0 Daventry news, followed by special weather forecast for farmers and special frostforecast 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) "Supper in Vienna" (arr. Hruby); "Indian Love Call’ (Friml); "Orange Rlossom"’ (Mayerl); "Woodland Whispers" (Czibulka); "Don Pedro" (Winkler); "Estilian Caprice" (Paul); "Emperor Waltz’ (Strauss); "‘Chasing the Mouse" (Morgan and La‘ Magna); "Beautiful Spring’ (Lincke); ‘Wedding Waltz" (Dohnanyi); "Pierrette’ (Chaminade); "Ragamuffin’ (Rirner); "Canzonetta’ (D’Ambrosio); "Songs at Eventide’; " Life in Vienna" (Strauss); "‘Blumen der Liebe" (Rust); "Gipsy Souvenir’ (trad.). 6.55 Weather report 7. O NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.30 GARDENING TALK 8. OQ ORCHESTRAL PROGRAMME featuring at 9.30 "Music from the Theatre" 4YA Concert Orchestra, conducted by Gil Dech, "The Marriage of Figaro Overture," "Rondo in B Flat Major " Besar eeseses Mozart

8.10 Records: Gerhard Husch (baritone) in songs by Schubert: * Roaming " * Whither?" * Halt " "Gratitude to the Brook" (from "The Maid of the Mill’) 8.18 The Orchestra, "Adagio: Allegro Molto" from Symphony No. 5 ("The New Werte). ve ctcesss. UVorak 8.26 Records: Vladimir Rosing (tenor), "Songs of Famous Russian Composers" .. Rachmaninoff Oh, Do Not Sing Again The Island In the Silent Night Spring Waters 8.34 Olive Campbell and 4YA Concert Orchestra, conducted by Gil Dech, Concerto in C Minor, Op. 18, for Piano and Orchestra ~ Rachmaninoff 1. Moderato 2. Adagio sostenuto 3. Allegro scherzando Rachmaninoff wrote this Concerto specially for the London Philharmonic Society in 1900. At the time he was oppressed by a haunting fear of failure and acute melancholy. He submitted himself to hypnotic treatment, and he says: ‘" Although it may sound incredible this cure really helped me. Already at the beginning of the summer [ had begun again to compose. The material grew in bulk, and new musical ideas began to stir within me-far more than I needed for my concerto," 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 930 MUSIC FROM THE THEATRE "Swan Lake," to the music ‘of Tchaikovski This is one of a series of imaginary broadcasts recreating the atmosphere of the theatre during the season of the ballet 40.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. O Close of normal programme. During the war, the statipn will be on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30) at Y 1140 k.c, 263m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. 0 After dinner music . i 8.0. "Rhythm Revels" 8.26 Variety show 9.0 "The Old Time The Ayter": " Women are Frail. or " The Vir~ tue of Repentance " : 9.143 Musical ramblings 4 9.30 ‘Homestead on the Rise" 10. 0 Three Recitalists, featuring Marcel Palotti (organ), Lawrence Tibbett (baritone), Prisca Quartet (instrumental) 10.30 Close down

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} (Zz 680 k.c, 441 m. : 7. 0-9.15 a.m. (approx.) Breakfast session 41. 0 Recordings 12. O Luncheon session | 4.30-2.30 p.m. Educational session 6. O bance music 5.30 Children’s session: ‘" David and Dawn in Fairyland" 46 Light music . 0 "Dad and Dave" 165 Daventry News 45 ‘Personal Column" O Re-broadcast of Official News .10 (approx.) After dinner music, (7.30, station announcements) 8.0 "With the Troops in Training": The daily life and work of the gunner NNDOOG 8.15 Khyber: "K.21 Revealed" 8.41 New dance releases 8. O Daventry News | 9.30 Pastime particulars 9.46 Fun and frolic 410. 0 Close down Sz 940k.c. 319m. 7. Oam. Daventry News 7.10 Breakfast session 9. 0 Daventry News 9.10 Morning programme 10.0 Weather report 10.10-10.30 Devotional Service 12. 0 Luncheon programme 12.30 p.m. Daventry News _ 4.30-2.30 Educational session from 2YA 3.0 Afternoon programme 3.30 classical music 4.0 Daventry News 4.20 Dance hits 4.30 Weather report: Variety 5. 0 Children’s session; David and Dawn in Fairyland 5.30 Hit tunes f 6.45 Dinner music 6.15 Daventry News 6.40 After dinner music 6.57 Weather report and station notices 7. 0 News Service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department 7.20 Recital by Green Brothers’ Marimba Band 7.30 Silas Marner 7.42 Chamber music: The Kolisch Quartet, playing "Quartet No. 21 in D Major’? (Mozart) 7.58 Boys of the Hofburg Chapel Choir, Vienna: "Joy, Queen of the Wise" (Minuet from Symphony in E Flat) (Mozart)

8. 3 Ignace Jan Paderewski (piano), playing ‘Rondo in A _ Minor" Mozart 8.11 Erna Berger (soprano), ‘‘ Wiegenlied"’ Cradle Song), (Mozart) 8.14 String Quartet of the Berlin State Opera House: "Quartet in D Major, Op. 64, No. 5" (Haydn) 8.26 Sportsmen's Intelligence Test (No. 41): Interviewing Mr. Highet, Rear-commodore, Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club 8.43 Vaudeville entertains 8. 0 Reserved 9.20 "Lorna Doone" 9.382 Revival time: Past hit tunes 0.0 Close down avn ven a IER m, 7. O0a.m. Daventry news ". Breakfast session 9. Daventry news 11. Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch session 12.30 Daventry news 5. O Light music 5.45 For the children, featuring ‘Coral Cave" 6.0 "Pinto Pete in Arizona" 6.15 Daventry news 6.45 Weather report and forecast for Hawke's Bay "Dad and Dave" O Re-broadcast of Government news 7.16 (approx.) After dinner music 0 Concert session: New Light Symphony Orchestra, "Valse Bohemienne," "Vaise de la Reine," "Valse Rustique," from ‘Four Character~ istic Valses" (Coleridge-Taylor) 8.11 Deanna Durbin (soprano), "The Maids of Cadiz," "Because," "My Own" 8.18 A. Van Dam and his Gaumont Orchestra, "A Bouquet of Flowers" 8.24 Morton Downey (tenor) 9.39 Lew White (organ) 8.47 The Light Opera Company, "Memories of Lehar" 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 Light variety and dance music 10. 0 Close down QV IN ante sm. 7. Op.m. Light music 8.0 Concert programme of chamber music: Eileen Joyce, Henri Temianka and Antoni Sala _ (piano, violin and ’cello), ‘Trio in D Minor" (Arensky); Raoul Koczalski (piano), ‘‘Etudes Nos. i1i-6" (Chopin) 9.0 ‘His Last Plunge’ 9.15 Humour 9.30 Dance music in strict time 10. 0 Close down QW WELLINGTON 990 k.c, 303m. 7. Op.m. Premiere c The Crimson Trail 7.46 Ensemble 9; 7. -+¢ Forks" 8.20 2YD Singers 8.40 ‘Dad and Dave" 8.52 Console-ation 8. & A Soldier of Fortune 8.30 Youth Must Have its Swing: A weekly session of modern rhythm for swing enthusiasts, conducted by ‘" Radiogram" 410. 0 Close down IPAM 1250k.c, 240m. 6. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular numbers 7. O Sports session: Bill Hendry 7.45 ‘The Life of Cleopatra." 8. 0 Concert session 8. 0 Old-Time dances and songs 10. QO Close down