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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 39, 21 March 1940, Page 39

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MARCH 30

NY, AUCKLAND 650 k.c. 462 m. 6. Qa.m. Station on the air for 7. 0 7.10 9. 0 9.10 10. 0 10.15 11. 0 11.10 12. 0 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 1.0 Daventry news Daventry news BREAKFAST SESSION Daventry news Selected recordings Devotional service, conducted by Rev. Frank de Lisle Selected recordings Talk to women ("Music and Flowers" series): "Bon Voyage Flowers," by M. Henri Villar, Chief Purser of the " Normandie ", Selected recordings Running commentary on the Avondale Jockey Club’s meeting, relayed from Avondale Racecourse District week-end weather forecast Selected recordings 3.15 Sports results Daventry news 4.30 Sports results Children’s session, conducted by " Cinderella"

5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15) "Die _Dubarry" | (Millocker-Mackeben); "The Lost Chord’ (Sullivan); ‘"Liebeslieder" (Strauss); "Gipsy Polka’ (Zander); "Melody Masters, No. 2’ (Kern); "Serenade in Blue’ (Plessow); "Coppelia Ballet’ (Delibes); "Samson and _ Delilah" (SaintSaens); "Chase the Ace’? (Engleman); "Kentucky Melodie’ (Richartz); ‘‘Champagner Walizer’ (von Blon); "Cavalleria Rusticana’ (Mascagni); "‘Muncher Kindl’"’ (Komzak); "Petite Valse’ (Herbert). 6.55 Weather report 7. @ NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. ng OFFICIAL WIRELESS E 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME: Recordings: Harry Horlick and his Orchestra, "Mariska," Medley of Hungarian Folk Songs 8,5 Jacqueline Page (soprano), "April Morn" ....... Batten "The Snowdrop" .. Craxton "When the Thrush Sings" Ganz Joyce Billing (piano), "Tocata and Fugue" .. Bach "Sonata in A Major" Scarlatti "Gardens in the Rain" Debussy

8.43 Tony Rex and Robert Simmers in duets and solos, Vocal duet: " Sincerity " Clarke Tony Rex: "‘ Tis the Day". Leoneavallo Robert Simmers: "T Love You | er eee Eee Fetes SRE Vocal duet: "Come to the ae Tee see fT Recordings: Harry Horlick and his Orchestra, "Sound of the Guitar": Russian Dances

8.46 Rotorua Maori Choir, "Marino Niu" "Taku Raukura" " Punehunehu " "Ete Tivi Kia Toa" Around the shores of Lake Rotorua and the other lakes of the thermal districts dwell the Arawas-one of the greatest of the Maori tribes. For generations past a "Hapu" for groups of famflies of. the Arawas known as Ngati Whaakaue, who live in the little nate of Ohinemutu, near Rotorua, have specially developed their young people in the knowledge and singing of Maori songs, A band of some thirty, specially selected for the quality of their voices, and known as the Rotorua Maori Choir, made a splendid series of gramoata records under the direction of Gil ech, Radio listeners have come to like these records very much and the above selections are taken’ from this unique set, which, was made in 1930. 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 Recordings: The Merry Macs (vocal novelty) "Rumpel-stilt-skins " . Lewis "Cuckoo in the Clock" Donaldson

9.31 9.37 9.43 9.49 10.10 11.15 London Piano Accordion Band, "Poor Country Mary" . Bath "Oh! Soldier! Who’s Your Lady: Love?" =. .6 6. ctx Evans Arthur Askey (comedian), "The Worm" ......,.. Askey WEIS 65-6 650 0 Taylor Joseph Green (xylophone), "A Bunch of Roses" . Chapi "The Whirlwind" .... Green Light Opera Company, Gems from "Oh, Boy!" and "Leave It To Jane" ..., Kern 10. 0 Sports summary Dance music (recorded) Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30) ee MSE 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7.0 After dinner music . Bright prelude "The Woman in White" Orchestral interlude "Soldier of Fortune" Week-end variety. show Close down |

2N 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 10.28t010.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 "Music and Flowers" series: ' Talk by Irene Hayes, noted American Floriste: " Flower Manners" 12. 0 Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 1.0 Weather report for aviators and week-end weather forecast 2. 0 Selected recordings 3.0 Sports results 3.28to3.30 Time signals 4.0 Daventry news 5. 0 Children’s session, from the Exhibition Studio

5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15) "Orpheus in Hades’’ (Offenbach); ‘In Gipsy Land’ (arr. Michaeloff); "Golden Shower" (Waldteufel); "The Lilt of Lehar’ (Lehar); "The Grand Duchess’’ (Offenbach); "Dance the Moonlight Waitz With Me" (Greene); ‘‘Radetzky March" (J. Strauss); "Eili Eilt’ (trad.); "La Boheme’ Selection (Puccini); "Glorious Light" Tango (Roulanger); "Serenade" (Moszkowski); "Carmen Sylvia" (Ivanovici); "Indian Mail" (Lamoth); "Viva El Torero" (Mackeben); "I’m. in Love All Over Again" (McHugh-Fields); "Wedding Dance Waltz’ (Lincke); Entrance of the Little Fauns’’ (Pierne). 6.55 Weather report 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 710 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.)

7.28 to 7.30 Time signals 8.18 From the Exhibition Studio: Recording: Geraldo and his Orchestra, "Rosalie " Selection Porter "Musical Romance," featuring Molly Donald and Thomas West Recording: H. Robinson Cleaver (organ), "Cleaver Hits No. 1"

8.21 8.51 8.54 8.57 9. 0 9.20 10.10 11.10 Hoffmeister’s Hawaiian Quintet, "Linger Awhile " Rose-Owens "Hula Blues" ...... Noble "Mexicali Rose " Stone-Tierney "An Apple for the Teacher " Monaco-Burke Recording: Charlie Kunz (piano), "Kunz Revivals No. 11" Jean Macfarlane (contralto), "T Love the Moon" Rubens "Trees" ......... Rasbach "The Auld Scots Sangs" trad. SUR Be van ts cn ee "Rise Dawn of Love" Campton Recordings: The Green Brothers’s Marimba Band, "It’s An Old Fashioned Locket" .. Westphal-Coburn George Formby (comedy vocal), "Lancashire Hot Pot Swingers" ...... Formby-Gifford George Grohrock-Ferrari and his Orchestra, "A Frangesa!" March j Costa-Gauwin Daventry news Weather report and station notices Dance programme (recorded) 10. 0 Sports summary Dance music by Stan Grant and his Canadian Capers — (relayed from the Majestic Cabaret) Close of normal programme, During the war the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30)

AY Mroelngroe 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 8.0 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music "Elijah," sacred oratorio by Mendelssghn, presented by the Royal Wellington Choral Society Soloists: Merle Gamble (soprano), Hilda Chudliey (contralto), Ernest Rogers (tenor), Raymond Beatty (baritone). Conductor: Stanley Oliver. (The choir will be augmented by members of the Dunedin Choral Society (Relayed from Wellington Town Hall) Merry and bright Close .down

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SV s\ 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 Akaroa Centennial celebrations. Re-enactment of landing of Captain Stanley and the Exercise of Sovereignty at Akaroa (relayed from the recreation ground at Akaroa) 12. 0 Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 1. O Lunch music 2.0 Selected recordings 3. 0 Re-enactment of landing of French settlers at Akaroa and unveiling of monument to commemorate the landing of the French 3.30 Sports results 4.0 Daventry news followed by special weather. forecast for farmers ; 4.30 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session: "Bee Man" 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15 p.m.) "Wien Bleibt Wien’ (Schrammel); "Hora Taganiasca"’ (trad.); ‘The Last Letter" (Reggov); "Serenade out of the Night’ (Spoliansky); "Moon at Sea’ (Rose); "A Little Smile and a Little Tear’ (Lang); "Mon Amour’ (Barczi-Beriram); ‘‘Gipsy Dream" (Sandor Horvath); ‘‘Barcarolle" (Tchaikovski); "Offenbach Can-Can’’ (Ojfenbach); "Only One" (Lang); "Londonderry Air" (arr. Kreisler); "Destiny" (Baynes); "Traumeret’" (Schumann); "Il Hadnt Anyone Till You’’ (Noble): ‘Later On" (Grimshaw); "If I Were King" (von Suppe); "Clavelitos’ (Valverde). 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 Recordings: "ondon Theatre Orchestra, " Revuedeville" Memories : Burrows 8.10 Charles Kullman (tenor), "Gipsy Love Song ".. Herbert *"Smilin’ Through " ..... Penn 8.15 "One Good Deed a Day." A comedy serial by George Edwards and Company 8.30 Allen Wellbrock in pianoforte novelties, featuring "Heart and Soul". .Carmichael "Deep in a Dream " van Hensen "Love’s Just Around the Corner" :.....4.... Robin "That Sentimental Sandwich" ee ie Hollander "Strange Enchantment" — : _ Hollander "Wish Me Luck" .... Park

8.40 8.46 8.54 Layton and Johnstone (vocal duets), "Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love" "Looking At You" Cole Porter Nelson Keyes and Ivy St. Helier (imitations), "Our Friends the Stars" George Grohrock Ferrari and his Orchestra, "Parade of the Imps" Eeklebe "A Francesa!" March Gauwin Daventry news Weather report and station notices

9.25 10.15 11.15 "THE VILLAGE CONCERT." A BBC programme devised by Frederick Grisewood, presented by William Maclurg 10. 0 Sports summary Dance music Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30) SY CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. 2 uy Op.m. Selected recordings 9.30 10.30 After dinner music Symphony concert, featuring at 3.9, "Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 70" (Dvorak), played by the Czech Philbarmonic Orchestra (conducted by Vaclav Talich); and at 8.57. "Concerto No. 2 in C Minor Op. 18" (Rachmaninoff), played Benno Moiseiwitsch and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Walter Goelir) Classical recitals Favourite entertainers Close down

AY DUNEDIN | 790 k.c. 380 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for 6.50 7. 0 7.10 9. 0 9.10 10. 0 10.50 Daventry news Weather report for aviators Daventry news BREAKFAST SESSION Daventry news Selected recordings Weather report for aviators Selected recordings "Music and Flowers" series: Talk by Leonard Liebling, famous New York critic and

editor: "Flowers Across the Footlights " 12. 0 Lunch music 12.30:p.m. Daventry news| 12.45 Running commentaries on racing at the Vincént Jockey Club’s meeting (relay from Wingatui) 1. 0 Weather report for aviators Weather forecast 2. 0 Selected recordings 3.30 Sports resulls 4. 0 Daventry news 4.45 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session, conducted by Big Brother Bill 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15) "The Barber of Seville Overture" (Rossini); "Kleiner Tanz" (A Little’ Dance) . (Borschel); «‘The A.B.C.- March". (Foort-Ferring); "Rainy Weather’ (Caros); "Grotesque" (Kormann) "Fickle Fancy Waliz" (J. Strauss); ‘‘Love's Romance" | (Sendry); "Chopin Melodies’; ‘Ginger Bread House" (Humperdinck), "Serenades Les Millions d'Arlequin" (Drigo); "Cherry | Ripe’ (arr. Bridge); "I'd Bring the|

Heavens to You’; "Entrance of the Little Fauns’ (Pierne); "Mosquilo Dance" (Witte); "Les Fleurs Waliz" (Waldlteufel); "Stay Close to Me" (Kreuder); "Shadows on the Wall" (Schutze); "By the Fireside" (Hippman); "Estudiantina’ ¢Waldteufel). 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.) 8. 0 Light Orchestral and Ballad Concert Records: The Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, "Pique Dame" Overture Suppe 8.10 Trevor Thomas (baritone), "Sigh No More" .... Aiken "Love’s Adoration" .. Dale 816 The New Light Symphony Orchestra, "Four Ways Suite" . Coates 1. Northwards-March 2. Southwards-Valse 3. Eastwards-Eastern Dance 4. Westwards-Rhythm 8.28 Estelle Burnard (soprano), "The Yellowhammer’s Song" Bantock "A Blackbird’s Song" Sanderson * Me Dab tS es Thayer 8.37 Rosario Bourdon String Ensemble, yi | oe "Minuet in A" .. Boccherini " Adagietto "’ ........:.. G. Bizet " Babillage-~ 2... &.' Gillett 8.47 Trevor Thomas (baritone), "A Banjo Song" .... Homer "Rose in the Bud" . Forster 8.53 The West End Celebrity Orchestra, " Buddha’s Festival of Love" Marriott "Carnival Nights " Groitzsch 9.0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 DANCE MUSIC 10. 0 Sports summary 10.10 Dance music 11.15 Close of normal programme. During the war the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30) 4) Y 1140 k.c. 263 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings ys After dinner music 8.0 "Marie Antoinette" 8.14 In tune with the times 8.30 His Lordship’s Memoirs: "Border Trouble" 9. 0 peeree From the. Diary of a Film an 9.30 Band programme, with vocal interludes by Lance Fairfax (baritone) 10. O Merry and bright 10.30 Close down

SONGS OF THE SEA

March 30

| : Y 680k.c. 441 m. 7. Oam. Daventry news 7.10 Breakfast session 9. 0-9.15 (approx.) Daventry news 11. O Recordings 12, 0-2.0p.m. Luncheon session 12.30 Daventry news 5. O Light music 5.30 Children’s session 5.45 Saturday special 6.16 Daventry news 6.45 ‘One Good Deed a Day" 7. 0 Re-broadcast of official news 7.10 (approx.) After dinner music (7.30, Station announcements) 8.0 Local results 8.65 Shall we dance? 9. 0 Daventry news 9.15 For the music lover 10. 0 Close down SIAR 940k.c. 319m. 7. Qa.m. Daventry news 7.10 Breakfast session 9.0 Daventry news 9.10 Morning programme 10. 0-10.10 Weather report 12. 0 Luncheon music, Relay of first day’s racing from. the Greymouth Jockey Club’s meeting at Omoto Racecourse 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 2.0 Selected recordings 3.0 Afternoon programme 3.30 Classical music 4.0 Daventry news 5. 0 Light variety : 5.30 "The Crimson Trail" 6. 0 Dinner music 6.15 Daventry news 6.40 After dinner revue 6.57 Weather report and station notices 7.0 News service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department 7.16 Spotlight parade 7.45 The Vicar’s Concert Party: A BBC production 8.0 Magyari Imre and his Hungarian Gipsy Orchestra, assisted by Herbert Ernst Groh (tenor) 8.30 ‘Joan of Arc" (episode 1) 8.45 Old folks at home 8.0 Daventry news 9.20 The Rich Uncle from Fiji 9.32 Dance to correct tempo by Maxwell Stewart and his Ballroom Melody, Josephine Bradley and her Orchestra, with interludes by Bing Crosby 70. 0 Close down OV Tn) barter, 7. Oa.m. Daventry news 7.10 Breakfast session 9, 0 Daventry news 11. 0 Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch session 9712.30 Daventry news 5.0 Light music 5.45 For the children, featuring "Westward Ho!" 6. 0 "Carson Robison and his Pioneers" 6.15 Daventry news 6.30 ‘The Japanese Houseboy " 6,45 Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay 7. 0 Re-broadcast of Government news 7.16 ‘The Circle of Shiva" 8. 0 Concert session: ""Who’s Hooper?" A popular musical comedy, Book by red Thompson. Lyrics by Clifford rene Music by Howard Talbot and Ivor Novello (A BBC production)

8. 0 Daventry news 9.20 "The Crimson Trail" 9.31 Light music 10.0 Close down UN Be 7. Op.m. Light popular music 8.0 Concert programme 8.10 "Singapore Spy" (15) | 8.35 Light music | 9.46 Latest dance records 9.30 Swing session 10. 0 Close down QV WELLINGTON 990 k.c, 303 m. 7. Op.m. "You Asked For it": From listeners to listeners, This session is the listeners’ own 10. 0 Close down ll a M AUCKLAND 1250k.¢, 240m. 1. Op.m. Band music, vocal gems, piano, piano. accordion and light orchestral selections 2.40 Light vocal and organ selections, humorous items 3.40 Hawaiian and Western songs, popular medleys and hits eS. O Light orchestral and popular music 7. 0 Sports results and comments: Bill Hendry 7.30 Orchestra 8. 0 Dance session 12. 0 Close down

Gardening Talks

1YA: 2YA; 4YA: 4YZ: 3ZB: 4ZB: 2ZA: Tuesday, March 26, at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, at 7.30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, at 8 p.m. Monday, March 24, 6.45 p.m,, and Thursday, March 28, 9.30 p.m. Saturday, March 30, 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, 7.15 p.m.