SATURDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 45, 3 May 1940, Page 39

SATURDAY

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MAY 11

IW AUCKLAND 650 k.c. 462 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 7. O Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 7.30 District weather report 9. O Selected recordings 9.15 Daventry news 10. O Devotional Service, conducted by Rev. T. H. Eccersall 10.15 Selected recordings 11. O "Music and Flowers": Talk by Majeska, designer of modern furniture and interior decorator: "The Place for Flowers " 11.10 Selected recordings | 12. 0 Daventry news, followed by lunch music 1. Op.m. District week-end weather forecast 2. 0 Selected recordings 3. O Running commentary on Rugby Football Match, relayed from Eden Park 3.15 Sports results 4.30 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session, conducted by " Cinderella " 5.45 Daventry news, followed by DINNER MUSIC: "Berliner Luft’ (Lincke); "I Dream of the Puszta’ (Bruhne); "Skye Boat Song" (Lawson-Voulton); ‘Forget Me Not’ (Macbeth); "Bells of St. Mary's’ (Adams); "Mulguy Braes,’ "Cameron's Lilt: Strathspeys,’ "Luggie Burn," "Merry Andrew" (arr. Whyte); "Music from the Movies’ (Louis Levy); "Aida" (Verdt); "Fantasy on the Rosary" (Nevin); "Church Mouse on a Spree" (Froeba); "Fantasy in Blue’; "Cheek to Cheek," from "Top Hat" (Berlin); "Valse Triste’ (Vecsey); ‘‘Lord Macdonald's Reel,’ ‘‘Moray’s Rant’ (arr. Whyte); "Do You See the Stars?" (Bruhne); "Rumanian Sirba" (Trad.); "Empire Builders’ March" (Bath). 6.55 Dominion and district weather report 7. 0 NEWS SERVICEISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME The Melody Five, "Swinging in a Hammock" Wendling "Friend, Good-bye " Mendelssohn "Sweet and Low "..-Barnby "Old. Mother Hubbard" Wheeler

8.14 Fritz Kreisler (violin), " Rondo " Mozart, arr. Kreisler 8.22 Hilda Reffell (soprano), "Now Sleeps the Crimson eee re eee Quilter " Hedge Roses" .... Schubert "The Cloths of Heaven" Dunhill "O Lovely Night" .. Ronald 8.34 The Rosario Bourdon Symphony Orchestra, Overture "Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Ss eS aes Beethoven "Turkish March". Beethoven 8.46 Keith Priscott (baritone), "It was the Rose Who Sadly ibe i. res Franz "Salt Water" .. Leslie-Smith "Down Sunlit "Glades Be Mirrie Hill "Czech Peasant Song" Godfrey 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 Dominion and district weather reports, and station notices 9.25 Recordings: . International Novelty Orchestra, "Diabolero" ........ Picon "Rhythm of the Clock" Kane 9.31 Light Opera Company, Gems from "Oh, Boy!" Kern 9.35 Primo Scala’s Accordion Band "Songs the Boys are Singing" 9.41 Vera Lynn, with Arthur Young on the Novachord, "T’ll Remember" . Connelly "Lonely Sweetheart". Miller 9.47 Bob Ballin and Rennie McIvor (comedy duettists), "Then You'll Have a Song" McEvoy "When Hannah Plays a i 9.53 Light Opera Company, Gems from "Leave it to Jane" Kern 10. 0 Sports summary 10.10 DANCE MUSIC 11. O Daventry news (During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight) IX AUCKLAND 880k.c. 341m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After dinner music 8 0 Frank Luther and the Century Quartet in Gems from ‘" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" 8.18 Harry Roy and his Orchestra 8.30 "The Woman in White" 845 Bright interlude 9.0 "The Cloister and the Hearth" 9.21 Week-end variety 10.30 Close down

AY | 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 710 BREAKFAST SESSION 7.30 District weather report 9. O Recordings 9.15 Daventry news 9.25 Recordings 10. O Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28t0 10.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 "Music and Flowers" Series: Talk by Miss Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix: "Flying and Flowers" 11. O Recordings 12. 0 Daventry news 12.20 p.m. Lunch music 1.0 Weather report for aviators and week-end forecast 2. 0 Selected recordings 3. 0 Running commentary on the Rugby football match (relayed from Athletic Park) 3.28to3.30 Time signals 445 Selected recordings (approx.) 5. O Children’s session 5.45 Daventry news 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "Maritana" (Wallace); "Apple Blossom" (Siede); "The Dashing White Sergeant"; "What's a’ the Steer?’’; ""Sherramuir"’ (arr. Whyte); "Follow the Fleet’ Selection (Berlin); "Liebesgeschichten" (Siede); "Waltzing Doll" (Poldint); "Thunder and Lightning" (Strauss); "Ballet Music’ (Gounod); "Cross for Criss" (Forewythe); "Angel's Serenade" (Braga); ‘‘Faruenliebe Und Leben" (Franz von Blon); "Serenata Appassionata" (Steiner); "March of the Toys" (Herbert); "Valse Bluette’’ (DrigoAuer); ‘Love's Serenade’ (Glan); "The Gnomes’ (Reinhold); ‘Childhood Memories" (arr. Somers). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS | 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) — 7.28t07.30 Time signals

8.10 8.24 8.30 8.36 8.42 9. 0 -9.20 10.10 11. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Recording: The London Palladium. Orchestra, "The Lilac Domino" Selection Cuvillier Les Dalley (tenor), "Ah, Though the Silver Moon Were Mine!" ........ Lohr "Once in a Blue Moon" Fisher "Colette" ....::.... Harrhy "Eily Aroon" .....+.. Brett *AWOM 6.000 +..+. Pether "Deep in My Heart" Romberg Recordings: H. Robinson Cleaver (organ), "Cleaver Hits, No. 1" Arthur Askey (comedy vocal) "Kiss Me Good-night, Sergeant Major" . Noel Pelosi "ROO vse vee kinks) ee Harry Robbins (xylophone), "Nutty Woods" ... Robbins "Buffoon" ......... Confrey Evelyn McGregor and Walter Preston (vocal duet), "Deep Purple" ...... de Rose "Button Up Your Overcoat" Henderson "Wishing" ove. dex de Sylva "Romance Runs in_ the BEET? 5 Sith «gical Kurtz Louis Levy and his Gaumont British Symphony, "Shall We Dance?" Selection Gershwin Daventry news Dominion and district weather reports and station notices Old-time dance by the 2YA Old-time Dance Orchestra, conducted by Frank Crowther Compere: Fred Barker Vocalist: Les Stapp 10.0 Sports summary Continuation of Old-time Dance Daventry news (During the war the station will be on the air until 12 midnight) QVC MERLINSTON 3. ss see (approx.) Selected record« Py 5. 0-6.0 Light music 70. 8. 0 8. 0 After dinner music Classics for all: A programme of light and popular classics, introducing solo and concerted vocal items with instrumental interludes. This programme features at 8.25, "In Quires and Places Where They Sing," a session introducing excerpts from well-known sacred works Music and mirth: An hour of light variety entertainment , 10.0 Fun for all 10.30 Close down

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SV A CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 7. 0 Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. O Selected recordings 9.15 Daventry news 9.30 Selected recordings 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Selected recordings 411. 0 "Music and Flowers": Talk by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin, linguist, friend of the famous in Europe, and descendant of the first Tsar of Russia: "The Influence of Flowers " 11.15 Selected recordings 12..0. Daventry. news 12.30 p.m. Lunch music 1.0 Week-end weather forecast Lunch music 2.0 Selected recordings 2.45 Commentary on Rugby foot- _ ball match (relayed from Lancaster Park) 3.30. Sports results 4:30 Sporis results 5. 0 Children’s session: " While . Children Sleep" c 5.45. Daventry news 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "Operaniics" (arr. Stoddon); "Waltz of the Dolls’ (Bayer); "Manhaltan Holiday" (Strauss and Date); "Gilanu de mis Amores" (Rietti); , "Pizzsicato Polka" (Johann ant Josef Strauss); "Berceuse de Jocelyu' (Godard); "The Rosary" (Nevin); "La Casta Susanna" (Gilbert); "Viennese Tears and Smiles’ (Hruby); "Stith as the Night’ (Bohm); "Summer Ruin" (Gibbons); "Old | Oaken Bucket,’ "Little Brown Jug" (Trad); "When a Gipsy Played’ (Schmidseder); "Medley, of- Southern Tunes" (Fosler); "Siamese Guard Mounting" (Lincke); "Mock Morris" (Grainger); "How Lovely are the Messengers’ (Mendelssohn). 6.55. » Dominion and district weather reports — 7.0 NEWSSERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.45 TALK by George Bagley: -"Understanding Europe: Italy" 8. 0 Recordings: The London Palladium Orchestra, ~ "The Thistle" .. Myddleton (Selection of Seotch Melodies) 8.10 Robert Easton (bass), "The Leader of the Town Brass Band" .... Longstaffe "The Tune the Bos’un Played" Loughborough 816 "One Good Deed a Day" A comedy serial by George Edwards and Company Good deeds now come thick and fast to Roger’ and Elizabeth Lamb: You will remember that in accordance with the terms of their unele’s. will, they must perform one good deed a day for twelve months, otherwise they lose the prospect of inheriting a large fortune. 8.30 Horace Finch (organist), "Finch Favourites " (No. 3)

8.37 8.44 8.52 9. 0 9.20 9.25 10.15 11. 0 Richard Crooks (tenor), "Love Everlasting" .. Frim! "Serenade" ...... Romberg Norman Long in a burlesque, "Luxembourg Calling". Long London Theatre Orchestra, "The New Moon" Selection Romberg Daventry news Dominion and district weather reports, and station notices "THE FOL DE ROLS" A BBC recorded programme written and_ produced _ by Greatrex Newman; music by Wolseley Charles 10. 0 Sports summary DANCE MUSIC Daventry news (During the war, the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight) SW CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250 m. 2.45-4.30 p.m. (approx.) Selected recordin gs 5. 0-6.0 Selected recordings 7. 0 8. 0 After dinner music ‘Symphony concert, featuring at 8.20, "Symphonic Variations, Op. 73." (Dvorak), played by. the Queen’s Hall Orchestra, conducted by Sir. Henry J. Wood; and at 9.4, "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43° (Rachmaninolq), plaved by = Benno" -Moiseiwitsch (piano) and thé London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted > by Basil Cameron Classical recitals A merry half-hour Close. dewn

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. O Selected recordings 9.15 Daventry news 9.30 Selected recordings 10. OQ Weather report for aviators Selected recordings 10.50 "Music and Flowers" series: Talk by M. Henri Villar, Chief Purser of the Normandie: "Bon Voyage Flowers" 12. 0 Daventry news At intervals during the day. running commentaries on the racing at the Forbury Park Trotting Club’s Meeting. (Relays from Forbury Park) 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators Weather forecast 2. 0 Selected recordings 3.30 Sports results 4.45 Sports results

5. O Children’s session: How to Make session 5.45 Daventry news 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "Monckton Melodies" (arr. Robinson), "Sweetheart" (Strauss); "Czardas" (Monti); "Volga Song" (Lehar); "Haffner Serenade" (Mozart); "Strassensanger von Neapel" (Winkler); "On the Bay of Naples’ (La Guardia); "Were Not Dressing’ (level), "La Tosca’ Selection (Puccini); "Sweethearl Czardas’ (Marie); "Stephanie Gavolte" (Czibulka);’ "Slavonfe Dance" (Dvorak); "Autumn Melodies’’ Waltz (Waldleufel). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY ‘THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 8.0 The Dunedin Centennial Musical Festival A grand presentation of Mendelssohn’s *" ELIJAH" Soloists: Isobel Baillie (soprano) Gladys Ripley (contralto) Ileddle Nash (tenor) Raymond Beatty (bass) Conductor: Andersen Tyrer The Dunedin Centennial Festival Choir The National Centennial Orchestra At the Grand Organ: Prof, V. E. Galway, Mus.D. (Relay from the Town Hall) 10. 0 Sports summary Dominion and district weather reports, and station notices 10.10 DANCE MUSIC 11. 0 Daventry news (During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight) a Y 1140 k.c. 263 m, 3. Op.m. Commentaries on senior Rugby (relay from Carisbrook) 5. 0-6.0 Recordings 7. O After dinner music 8. 0 Treasury of Song, featuring " Gile bert and Sullivan" 8.35 ‘Nell Gwynn Dances" 8.45 "Marie Antoinette" 9.0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.26 Band programme 10.0 Melody and humour 10.30 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.

IN A CHARIOT OF. FIRE

May 11

aN 680k.c, 441m. 7. Oam. Daventry news 7.15 (approx.) Breakfast session 9.15-9.30 (approx.) Daventry news 41. 0 Recordings 412, 0 Daventry news bs by (approx.)-2.0 p.m. Luncheon session Light music 630 Children’s session 6.45 Daventry news 6.15 Saturday special 6.45 "One Good Deed a Day" 7.0 Re-broadcast of official news 7.10 After dinner music (7.30, station announcements) 8.0 Presentation of Mendelssohn’s "Elijah." Soloists: Isobel Baillie (soprano), Gladys Ripley (contralto), Heddle Nash (tenor), Raymond ‘Beattie (bass). Conductor, Andersen Tyrer. Dunedin Centennial Festival Choir, Centennial Festival Symphony oe ee At = Grand Organ, Prof. . Galthe- broadcast from 4YA) 10. Close down SIAR, 940k.c. 319m. 6.50a.m, Weather report for aviators 7.0 Daventry news 7.10 Breakfast session 9.15 Daventry news 9.25 Morning programme , 40. 0-10.10 Weather report 12. 0 Daventry news 12.20 p.m. Luncheon music 2.0. Selected recordings 3. 0 Commentary on football, relayed | from Rugby Park, Greymouth 4.30 Merry melodies 5. O Light variety 5.15 ‘" The Crimson Trail" 5.45 Daventry news 6. 6 Dinner music 6.30 After dinner music

we 7.0 News service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department 7.20 Spotlight parade 746 "Over the Garden Wall": BBC comedy sketch 8. 0 Debroy Somers Band, and Paul Robeson (bass) 8.30 "Joan of Arc" 8.42 Here’s a laugh 9.0 Daventry news 9.20 Old-time dance programme 10. 0 Close down 7. Oa.m. Daventry news 7.10 Breakfast session 9.15 Daventry news 41. 0 Light music 12. 0 Daventry news 12.15-2.0 p.m. Lunch session 5. O Light music 5.30 For the children, featuring ‘"‘ Westward Ho!" 5.45 Daventry news 6. 0 ‘Carson Robison and his Pioneers" 6.15 Light music 6.30 "The Japanese Houseboy" 6.45 Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay Recorded talk by Professor Arnoid Wall: "Plain Man’s English" 7. 0 Re-broadcast of Government news 716 "The Circle of Shiva" 8. 0 The State Opera Orchestra, " Die Fledermaus" Overture (Strauss) 8.10 Esther Coleman and Foster Richardson (vocal duets) 819 New Light Symphony Orchestra, "Air De Ballet," ‘Al Fresco," " Badinage"’ (Herbert) 8.27 The Celeste Instrumental Quartet 8.33 The Troubadours Male Quartet (vocal) 8.44 The National Symphony Orchestra, *Yeomen of the Guard Selection" 8.56 Belgrave Salon Orchestra 9. O Daventry news 9.20 "The Crimson Trali" 9.31 Light music 10. 0 Close down VIN 920k.c. 327m, 7. Op.m. Popular music 8. 0 Concert programme 8.10 "Singapore Spy" Gra 8.35 Light music {20 Bi 9.15 Dance programme i Be 9.30 Swing session hI aa 10. O Close down 2Q\/|D)WELLIN GTON 990 k.c. 303m. 7. Op.m. "You Asked For It’: From listeners to listeners 10. 0 Close down |Z AUCKLAND 1250 k.c, 240 m. 1. Op.m. Band music, vocal gems, piano medleys, light orchestral and pianoaccordion selections 2.40 Light vocal and organ selections 3.20 Lega popular and orchestral numers 5. O Light orchestral and popular éxcerpts 7.0 Sports results and comments: "Bill" Hendry 7.30 Orchestral programme 8. 0 Dance session 12. 0 Close down

Gardening Talks

1YA; 2YA: 3YA: 4YA: 4YZ: 3ZB: 4ZB: 2ZA: Tuesday, May 7, at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, at 7.30 p.m. Monday, May 6, at 7.35 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, at 8 p.m. Monday, May 6, 6.45 p.m.; Thursday, May 9, 9.30 p.m. Saturday, May Il, 6.0 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, 6.45 p.m.