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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 43, 19 April 1940, Page 31

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| NY, AUCKLAND | 650 k.c. 462 m. ANZAC DAY 6. Oam. Station on the air for Daventry news. (News at fF a.m., 8a.m. and 9 a.m.) 9.10 Selected recordings 11. 0 Anzac Day Commemoration Service, relayed from the Cenotaph, War Memorial Museum 11.30 Selected recordings 12. 0 Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 2.0 Selected recordings 4.0 Daventry news, followed by special weather forecast for farmers 5. O Children’s session, conducted by "Cinderella," with the special recorded feature: " Highlights of the Centennial Exhibition," by " Spotlight ": (6) "The Dominion Court" No. 1 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15) "Merry Widow Selection’ (Lehar); "Mouse in the Clock" (Hunt); "‘Holladrio"’ (Schmidseder); "Oh, My Dear Ones" (Trad.); "Mon Cherie, Mon Ami" (Stolz); "Carmen" (Bizet); "Caprice Viennois, Op. 2" (Kreisler); "Lovely Vienna’; "Snow Fairies" (Lowry); ""Why Should We Fall in Love?’ (Trad.); "‘Nina"’ (Livschakof]); "Mighty Lak’ a Rose’ (Nevin); "In the Marionettes Shop’ (Rich); "The Music Comes" (Strauss); "Die Folkunger" (Kretechmer); ‘‘Faust Frolics’’ (Gounod), 6.30 A BBC BROADCAST: " An Interview with New Zealand and Australian Troops in Great Britain and the Near East" (Re-broadcast from) 2YA) | 7. 0 Weather report 7.30 WINTER COURSE TALK by Rev. A. B. Chappell: "Our Early Colonists" (7) " What They Achieved " 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Recorded Anzac Day presentation: "LEST WE FORGET" 8.28 Light orchestral music and ballads ~The BBC Variety Orchestra, "Lulworth Cove". .Shadwell 8.31 Essie Ackland (contralto), "My Treasure" ... Trevalsa "Darby and Joan" . Molloy 8.37 London Palladium Orchestra, "Animal Antics" .... Wark 8.40 Ernest McKinlay (tenor), "Roses of Picardy" .. Wood "Dreams of Long Ago" Caruso

London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Slav and Gipsy Dances" Dargomijsky Essie Ackland (contralto), "There is No Death" O’Hara "Easter Flowers ".Sanderson Daventry news Weather report and station notices

10. 0 11. 0 HAPPY WAR-TIME MEM.ORIES Favourites, old and new Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30) UY 2K Mote conte 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 8. 0 8.24 After dinner music Chamber music hour: The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, ‘ Suite for String Orchestra" (Frank Bridge) Alexandra Trianti (soprano), Coenraad vy. Bos (piano), "A Maiden’s First Love Song,’ *‘The Fairy Binsefuss," "‘Let Spiteful Tongues Say What They Please," " Little Head, Little Head, do not Whimper" (Wolf). Artur Schnabel (piano), ‘ Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111"? (Beethoven), (1) Maestoso: Allegro con brio, (2) Arietta con variazioni Classical recitals Light music Close down

WELLINGTON | 2 y 570 k.c. 526 m. ANZAC DAY 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news. (News at 6 a.m., 7 a.m. and 9 a.m.) 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7.10 SPECIAL BREAKFAST SESSION

9.10 Selected recordings 10. O Weather report 10.10 Devotional Service 10:25 Recordings 10.28t010.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 12. O Lunch music 2. Op.m. Selected recordings 2.30 Memorial Service arranged by the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association (Relayed from the Cenotaph, Lambton Quay) 3. 0 Selected recordings (apprex.) 3.28 to3.30 Time signals 5. O Special Anzac Day Children’s Session i 6.15 Daventry news 6.30 Special feature re-broadcast from the BBC: "An Interview with N.Z. and Australian Troops in Great Britain and the Near East" (Re-broadcast by the National Stations)

7.10 8. 0 8.40 8.46 8.54 10.11 11. 0 Weather report Selected recordings "TO THE ANZACS" Those who returned entertain THE ANZAC NIGHT CONCERT, arranged by the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association. (Relayed from the Grand Opera House) To the Air Force Recordings: Band of the Royal Air Force, "Sussex by the Sea" March Ward Higgs (Official march of the R.A.F.) Sidney Burchall and Male Chorus, : "Lords of the Air" Burnaby-North To the Navy " Insubordination " A humorous ventriloquist act by Arthur Prince and "Jim" Prince To the Army "Tommy’s Tunes" . Various The Coventry Hippodrome Orchestra, Daventry news Weather report and station notices To the Army Nurses "Florence Nightingale" (The White Angel) A National Broadcasting Service production Favourites, Old and New Close of normal programme During the war, the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30) AWG Wiaie itr 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 8. 0 10.30 After dinner music Chamber music hour, featuring at 8.22, "Sonata in A Major" (Mozart) played by Hephzibah and Yehudi Menuhin (piano and violin) Music for all: A session of light music, introducing reeordings by popular artists and combinations What they can do: A light recital programme, introducing Sydney Gustard (organist), Norman Allin (bass), Maurice Igor and his Nomad Orchestra Close down These programmes are correct as we go to press. Any last-minute alterations will be announced over the air. All programmes in this issue are copyright to The Listener, and may not be reprinted without permission,

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SV CHRISTCHURCH | 720 k.c. 416m. | ANZAC DAY 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news, (News at 6 a.m., 7 a.m. and 9 a.m.) 9.10 Selected recordings

10.30 NEW BRIGHTON ANZAC (approx.) SERVICE: Speaker: D. W. Russell (VicePresident of Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association) (Relayed from the Cenotaph, New Brighton) 11.30 Selected recordings 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 12.45 Selected recordings 2.30 Citizens’ Memorial Service, under the auspices of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association Address by A. E. Haynes (President of Christchurch Returned. Soldiers’ Association) (Relayed from King Edward Barracks) 3.30 Selected recordings 4.0 Daventry news 4.30 Selected recordings 5. 0 Children’s session: Anzac Day programme 5.45 Selected recordings 615 Daventry news . "These programmes are correct as we go to press, Any last-minute alterations will be announced over the air. All programmes in this issue are copyright to The Listener, and may not be reprinted without permission,

6.30 BBC Special Anzac Day Feature: "An interview with N.Z. and Australian Troops in Great Britain and the Near East" (Re-broadeast from 2YA) 7. Q Weather report 7.15 Selected recordings (approx.)

9. 0 9.20 10.30 Relay from Christchurch Anglican Cathedral of Anzac Service under the auspices of the Toc H and Returned Soldiers’ Association Preacher: Rev. G. L. Taylor, M.A., B.D. Daventry news Weather report and station notices BBC Recorded Programme: _ "THE OLD CONTEMPTIBLES": | The record of the British Ex-. peditionary Force from Mons. to Ypres, between August and November, 1914 Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30 p.m.) STV A CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. 5B. 0-6.0 p.m. Selected recordings 7.0 8. 0 8.30 9.30 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music Band programme Light classica) programme "Oliver Twist" (first episode) Recital by Harry Horlick and his Orchestra, assisted by the Comedy Harmonists Close down

LILA roi 30 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for 9.10 10. 0 10.15 12. 0 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 1. 0 2. 0 2.30 3. 0 5.45 6.15 6.30 7. 0 7.15 (approx.) 7.30 8.20 8.36 ANZAC DAY Daventry news. (News at 6a.m., 7a.m, and 9 a.m.) Selected recordings Weather report for aviators Selected recordings Devotional Service Selected recordings Lunch music Weather report for aviators Weather forecast Anzac Day Parade of Returned Soldiers at the Cénotaph. (Relay from Queen’s Gardens) Selected recordings The Returned Soldiers’ Association’s Annual Anzac Day Service Address by Rev. H. J. Ryburn, M.A., B.D. (Relay from Town Hall) Daventry news, followed by weather report for farmers and special frost forecast Selected recordings Children’s session: Mouth Organ Band and Mr. Stampman DINNER MUSIC Daventry news BBC special Anzac Day feature: * An Interview with New Zealand and Australian Troops in Great Britain and the Near East." (Re-broadcast from 2YA) Weather report Selected recordings Relay of Anzac Day Service from St, Paul’s Cathedral. Organist: Prof. V. E. Galway The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Edward Elgar, "Cockaigne Concert Overture" Elgar (In London Town) The Philharmonic Choir, conducted by Charles Kennedy Scott, "It Comes from the Misty Ree ee are Ee ae Elgar (The Banner of St. George) Beatrice Harrison (’cello), go | teary ear .. Delius he English ‘cellist, Beatrice Harrison, won a gold medal for playing when she was ten years old, She studied at the Royal College of Music, and afterwards went to Berlin and carried off the International Mendelssohn Prize, Miss Harrison has won

a foremost place among British ’cellists, and although her repertoire is extremely wide — covering music from the early Italian Masters to Kodaly, whose unatcompanied ’Cello Sonata she was the first to perform in England-she is usually associated with Elgar’s ’Cello Concerto, and the~’cello music of Delius. 8.39 Peter Dawson (baritone), "The Yeomen of England" German "The Sword Song" .. Elgar 8.46 The Jacques String Orchestra, "St. Paul’s Suite" .. Holst 1. Jig 2. Ostinato 3. Intermezzo 4. Finale: The — 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 New Queen’s Hall Orchestra, "Symphony in D Minor" ("The Unfinished") . Schubert 10. O Favourites old and new 11. O Close of normal programme, During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30) Gl, Y 1140 k.c. 263 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. 0 After "dinner music 8. 0 A BBC recorded programme: "Lone don’s River" 8.30 Introducing the New Mayfair Orchestra, with vocal interludes

10.30 "The Old-time The-Ayter"’: "Convict 99" or "Love Will Erase All Prison Stains’ A light classical programme Three recitalists: Jack Simpson (xylophone), Dick Powell (light vocal), London Palladium Orchestra Close down

April 25

\4 Y Zz 680 k.c. 441 m. 411. Oa.m.-1.0 p.m. Anzac Commemoration 12.30 Daventry news 2.0 The music of Britain, France, Poland, Finland and Norway 3. 0 Songs of the Soldier $.30-4.0 Listen to the band 6.30 An jnterview with New Zealand and Australian troops in Great Britain and the Near East: An Anzac feature, broadcast by the BBC 7. 0 Re-broadcast of oficial news 7.10 (approx. After dinner music (7.30, Station announcements) 8.0 With the Troops in Training: "The Infantry" 8.156 ‘Khyber and Beyond" 8.41 London Symphony Orchestra: "Wand of Youth Suite No. 1"’ (Elgar) ®. O Daventry news 8.30 Reminiscences of the Old Sportsman 9.86 Concert by the Boston Promenade Orchestra, assisted by Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy 10. O Close down IS Y/ARR, 940k.c. 319m. 12. 0 Noon luncheon music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 12.50 Variety entertainment 2.0 Relay Anzac service from Town Hall, Greymouth 6.30 Bands on the air 6.45 The Buccaneers 6. O Then and now: Song hits of two wars 6.30 Re-broadcast from BBC: ‘An Interview with New Zealand and Australian Troops in Great Britain and the Near East’ ¥. 0 Weather report 7. 4 Official news service, issued by the Prime Minister’s Departinent 7.20 The London Palladium Orchestra 7.30 "John Halifax, Gentleman" 7.42 We march in step 8. 0 The Greymouth Returned Soldiers’ Association’s ‘"‘Anzac Concert," relayed from the Greymouth Town Hall ®. 0 Daventry news 8.20 Return to Town Hall 410. 0 Close down QVinl 760 k.c. 395 m. 41. Oa.m.-1.0 p.m. Selected recordings 12.30 Daventry news 2. 0 Musical programme 2.30 Relay from Sound Shell, Marine Parade, Napier. Anzac Day Commemoration ‘Ceremony under the auspices of the Napier Returned SOfdiers’ Association. Speaker: Rev. W. 8. G. Cameron 4. (approx.) Daventry news 6.16 Daventry news 6.30 Re-broadcast from 2YA of BBC special Anzac Day feature, "An Interview with New Zealand and Australian Troops in Great Britain and the Near East’’ 0 Light music 8. 0 Concert session: Grand Symphony Orchestra, "Bagatelle Overture" (Rixner ) 8. 8 Webster Booth (tenor), "Beneath Her Witldow" (Medley of Serenades) 8.16 boston Promenade Orchestra, ‘‘Artist’s Life’ Waltz (Strauss) 8.26 Grace Moore (soprano), ‘Our Song," "Stars in My Eyes," "What Shall Remain?"

8.36 Marek Weber and his Orchestra, © Saschinka,"’ Russian medley 8.46 Gil Dech (piano), "The Two Larks,"’ ** Shepherd’s Evening Song " 8.54 Anton and the Paramount Theatre Orchestra, ‘‘ Medley of PasoDobles " Daventry news Light music Close down 2 Y N 920k.c. 327m. 7. Op.m. Light music 8.0 Concert programme of chamber music; "Trio for Violin, ’Cello and Piano in F Minor" (Dvorak), played by the Budapest Trio; "Variations on a Theme by Paganini" (Brahms), played by Egon Petri (piano) 8.0 "The Woman in White" 9.15 Humour 9.30 Pance music tn strict time 10. 0 Close down QW WELLINGTON 990 k.c, 303 m, 9. 9.2 10. coo 7. Op.m. Premiere 7.36 The Crimson Trail 7.46 Ensemble 8. 7 . "Thrilis" 8.20 2Y)D Singers 8.40 "Dad and Dave" 8.52 Console-ation 9.5 A Soldier of Fortune 9.30 Youth Must Have Its Swing 10. 0 Close down 12 AUCKLAND 1250k.c, 240m, 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular excerpts 7. 0 . Sports: session: "Bill" Hendry 7.45 "The Life of Cleopatra" 8.0 Orchestral numbers 8.30 Concert session 9.30 Band music 10. 0 Close down