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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 47, 17 May 1940, Page 39

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AUCKLAND | l Y 650 k.c. 462 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 7. 0 Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 7.30 District weather report 9. 0 Selected recordings | 9.15 Daventry news ~ | 10. O Devotional Service, conducted by Rey. Dr. D. H, Stewart 10.15 Selected recordings 11. 0 "Music and Fiowers," by Margaret E. Sangster, gifted American poetess and short story writer: "Flowers and Happiness" 11.10 Selected recordings 12. 0 Daventry news, followed by running commentary on the Auckland Trotting Club’s Meeting, relayed from Alexandra Park 1. Opm. District week-end weather forecast 2. 0 Selected recordings 4.30 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session, conducted by "Cinderella" 5.45 Daventry news 6. 0 .DINNER MUSIC: "Nights at the Ballet, No. 2; "Cradle Song of the Virgin Mary" (Reger); "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"’ (Bland); "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’; "Narctssus"’ (Nevin); "The Flowers’ Caress" (Lenntjens); "‘Sevillanas Y Panaderos’’ (Gomez); "Rose of Samarkand’ (Coates); "Lovely to Kiss"’ (Dicker); ‘In Tulip Land" (Pazeller); "Merry Widow’ (Lehar); "Ignacio" (Carvara); "Listen to Liszt’ (arr. David Bor); "J Was Anything but Sentimental" (Lerner, Goodhart, Hoffman); "Blue Skies" (Rirner); "Student Prince _ Selection" (Romberg). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports | 7.0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED) BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.40 Recorded talk: "Just a Job of Work" (2), "A Wireless Operator’s Day at Sea" 8.0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Featuring the Choir of the Auckland Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Club Recording: Rosario Bourdon Symphony Orchestra, "Donna Diana" Overture Resnicek "Hungarian Dance No. 1" Brahms 8. 9 The Choir, "The Blind Ploughman" Coningsby Clarke "Polonaise Militaire" Chopin, arr. Stickles 8.16 Madeleine Grey (contralto), in. a group of songs by Michael Head, "Sweet Chance That Led My Steps Abroad," "Slumber Song of the Madonna," "Love’s Lament," "The Three Mummers"

8.28 8.36 8.48 9. 0 9.10 9.15 9.21 9.24 9.31 9.45 10.10 11. 0 11.15 The Choir, "An Evening Lullaby" Wilfrid Shaw "Three Sea Shanties" arr. Terry "Sally Brown" "Tom’s Gone to Hile" "Whisky Johnny" (Shantyman: Robert L. Wilson) W. H. Squire (cello), "Madrigale" ..... , Simonetti mn \) .t. poereereee = -- Mehul "Chanson Indoue" Rimsky-Korsakov "RIGOR"; . .ceneeves SOpDOT The Choir, "The Little Sandman" arr. West "Invictus" ...-... Protheroe Recording: Rosario Bourdon Symphony Orchestra, "Marche Troyenne" Berlioz Daventry news Dominion and district weather reports and station notices Recording: George Scott Wood (accordion), with rhythm accompaniment, "The Big Broadcast of 1936" Whiting TROO Te Nas cacgees OTER Jessie Matthews (light vocal) "Gangway" ..--.... Hoffman Frank Rayston (piano), "Lambeth Walk After the Great Masters" ... Rayston Olive Groves and George Baker, with orchestra, "A Southern Maid" Selection Fraser-Simson Arthur Young on the novachord, "I Love the Moon" ,., Rubens "Roses of Picardy" Haydn Wood Ellaline Terriss and Seymour Hicks, "Two Famous Stars Look Backward" Louis Levy and his Orchestra "Music from the Movies" 10. 0 Sports summary DANCE MUSIC (recorded) Daventry news Close of normal programme. (During the war the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight) I SSextane 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7.0 8. 0 8.18 8.30 8.45 9. 0 9,18 1 0.30 After dinner music Ambrose and his Orchestra, in songs from "Top Hat" (Berlin) Virtuosi of the mouth-organ "The Woman in White" Interlude "The Cloister and the Hearth" (No. 6) "Half Way to Rome" Week-end variety Close down

AY 570 k.c. 526 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 7.30 District weather report 9. 0 Recordings 9.15 Daventry news 9.25 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 General Guiseppe Garibaldi, grandson of the famous liberator; " Flowers in a Soldier’s Life" 11. O Recordings 12. O Daventry news 12.20 p.m. Lunch music 1. 0 Weather report for aviators and week-end forecast 2.0 Selected recordings 3. O Running commentary on the Rugby Football Match (relayed from Athletic Park) 4.45 Selected recordings (approx,) j 5. O Children’s session 5.45 Daventry news 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "The Bartered Bride’ (Smetana); "‘Turkish March’ (Mozart); "Chinese Wedding Procession" (Hosmer); "The Great Waltz" (Strauss); ‘Ay Ay Ay" (Freire); "Memory"; "South of the Alps" (Fischer); "Kol Nidret’ (Trad.); "Spanish Serenade" (Bizet); "Compositions by Edvard Grieg’ (Greig); "Ramona" Waltz (Wayne); "I Dream Too Much" Selection; "‘Columbine's Rendezvous" (Heykens); "The Barlered Bride’ (Smetana); ""Gladioles" (Lohr). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.28to07.30 Time signals 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Recordings? Louis Levy and his Gaumont British Symphony, "Music from the Movies ® 8.10 Jane Froman with Sonny Schuyler and Nathaniel Shil- | kret and the Salon Group, | "Gems from ‘Oh Kay’" Gershwin Jane Froman with Felix Knight, Nathaniel Shilkret and the Salon Group, "Gershwin Medley" ‘Gershwin 8.18 Hoffmeister’s Hawaiian Quintet, "Under a Tropical Moon" Noble "Ten Tiny Toes" .. Schuster "The Song of Surrender" Warren "Dinah" eerees Lewis-Young

8.30 Recordings: George Formby (comedy vocal), "The Pleasure Cruise" Gifford-Cliffe 8.33 Marcel Palotti (organ), oe Your Toes" Film Selection 8.36 Nelson Eddy (baritone), "Rose Marie," "The Mounties" Friml 8.42 Primo Scala’s Accordion Band "Six Hits of the Day No. 31" 8.48 The "Anything Goes" Foursome, "Gipsy in Me" ..« . Porter "Lady Fair" (A_ Sailor’s Chanty) ..:.cccseee. Porter 8.54 New Mayfair Orchestra, "Padilla Me@iey" ... Padilla 9. O Daventry news 9.10 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 9.15 DANCE PROGRAMME 10. 0 Sports summary 10.10 Dance music by Stan Grant and his Canadian Capers (relayed from the Majestic Cabaret) 11. 0 Daventry news (During the war, the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight) 2 Y 840k.c. 357m. | 3. Op.m. Light music 4.45 (approx.) Selected recordings 5. 0-6.0 Light music 7.0 After dinner music 8. 0 Music for the people: An hour of light and popular classical recordings, featuring solo and concerted vocal items, with instrumental interludes 8. 0 Variety calling 410. 0 Fun for all 10,30 Close down These programmes are correct as press. Any last + minute ons will announced over the air. All es in this issue copyri to The Listener, he without permission,

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SV hi CHRISTCHURCH | | 720 k.c. 416m. 6. Oa 7. 0 7.10 9. 0 9.15 9.30 10.30 10.45 11. 9 11.10 11.30 12. 0 12.30 p 2.0 .m. Station on the air for Daventry news Daventry news BREAKFAST SESSION Selected recordings Daventry news Selected recordings Devotional Service Selected recordings "Music and Flowers" Series: Talk by Rafaelo Diaz, popu--lar tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, New York: "A Singer Talks on Flowers" Selected recordings Relay from Addington of Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s Meeting Daventry news -m. Lunch music Selected recordings « 3.30. Sporls resulls 5. 0 5.45 6. 0 "Blue Trazano); 1 Have (Gordon, 4:30 Sports results ‘Children’s session Daventry news DINNER MUSIC: Danube" (Strauss); "Nena" (Fer‘The Dancer’, (Pedersen); ‘""May the Next Romance With You?" Revel); "Secrets" "(Rust); "My Shining Star" (Trad.); "Christinas Fantasy’; "Lolita’ (Bussi); "Minuet in D Major" (Mozart); "Valse Vanite’ (Wiedoe/t); "The Waliz Lives On" (Robin); "Melody in F" (Rubinstein); "Alles Hort Zu’ (Plessow); "Espana sythe): 6.55 * (Waldteufel);\ ‘‘Aithade’ (Fore‘Lo? Du Bal" (Gillet). Dominion and district weather reports

7. 0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 7.45 10.30 11. 0 NEWS AND REPORTS TALK by George Bagley: "Understanding Europe: Italy" "KING OLAF" By Elgar, performed by the Christchurch Centennial Choir with The Centennial Festival Symphony Orchestra, under the Conductorship of Andersen Tyrer Soloists: Isobel Baillie (soprano) Heddle Nash (tenor) Raymond: Beatty (bass-bari-tone) (Relayed from the Theatre Royal) 10.15 Sports summary (approx.) DANCE MUSIC Daventry news (During the war, the station will remain on the air unti: 12 midnight) NVA CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. 2.45-4.30 p.m. (approx.) Relay from Lan5. 7. 0 8. 0 8.32 9. 0 9.40 9.15 10.30 caster Park of a commentary on a Rugby football match 0-6.0 Selected recordings After dinner music Recorded play: "Dust." Drama in the Oklahoma dust bowl, by W Gracine-Holder. Adapted and pro duced by the NBS Light variety Daventry news Dominion and district weather reports and station notices Fun for all 4 Close down

A NY, DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7. 0 Daventry news 710 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Selected recordings 9.15 Daventry news 9.30 Selected recordings 10. O Weather report for aviators Selected recordings 10.50 "Music and Flowers" series: Talk by Malcolm Vaughan, New York Art Critic: "Flowers in Art" 12. 0 Daventry news Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators Weather forecast 2. Q Selected recordings 3. 0 Commentary on Senior Rugby | Match. (Relay from Carisbrook) | 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: "Waltzing to Archibald Joyce’; "lymn to the Sun" (Rimsky-Korsakov); "Passing Clouds" (King): "The Violin’s Love Song" (Winkler); "lrish Washerwoman" (Sowerby); "Vu Take You Nome Again, Kathleen" (Traditional); "Ice Rink’ Selection; ~ Venetian Night’ (Voehrj-Jezewski); "Escapada™~™ (Phillips); "Trianon" (Livschakof[); "Suite de Danse" (Kunneke); "Salut. d’Amur" (Elgar); "Polonaise Militaire’ (Chopin), "Melody At Dusk’ (King); "Valse Bluette"’ (Drigo); "London Suite’ (Coates); "Parade of the Imps" (Ecklebe). / 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 LIGHT ORCHESTRAL AND BALLAD CONCERT Record: The Polydor String Orchestra, "In Indra’s Land" Overture Lincke 8.10 Les. Dalley (tenor), "Isle of My Heart" Kennedy-Fraser "The Song of the Windmill" Travers "Charm Me Asleep" Sanderson ‘Not until the 18th century was any serious atteinpt made to write down the old melodies of the Highlands and Islands

of Scotland. About 1760 the Rev Patrick MacDonald and his brother made a collection of airs which they published, and, thoveh they probably differed a great deal in their written form from the traditional way in which they had heen sung for countless generations, they still held much of the wild simple beauty which no other musie has in quite the same degree, In our time Mrs, Kennedy-Fraser has rescued and transeribed many tunes which would have been lost and forgotten but for her enthusiasm. 8.18 The Lang- Worth Concert Orchestra, " Augustia" .... Pettorossi "Leda Vals" ....... Tonseca 8.25 Mary Pratt (contralto), "For England" .... Murray "Down Here" ...... Brahe "A Ballymure Ballad" Hughes * Unmindful of the Roses" Coleridge-Taylor 8.34 Record: The New Light Symphony Orchestra, " Badinage" ...... Herbert "A Brown Bird Singing" Wood 8.42 Les. Dalley (tenor), "The Song of Shadows" o Keel " Portaferry ". Traditional air " Mountains " ...... Rasbach 8.50 Records: The London Palladium Orchestra, "Katja the Dancer". Gilbert "Kiss Me Again" .. Herbert "The Liberators’ March" Ancliffe 9. 0 Daventry news 9.10 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 9.15 An old-time dance programme by Ted Andrews and the Revellers’ Dance Band 10.2 Sports summary 11. O Daventry news 11.15 Close of normal programme, (During the war, the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight) ayy DUNEDIN 1140 k.c. 263 m. 3. Op.m. Selected recordings, during relay of Rugby match through 4YA 5. 0-6.0 Recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 Marie Antoinette 8.14 In tune with the times 8.30 The Mystery Club: "The Heart of ; Europe" 9. 0 Leaves from the Diary of a Film Fan 9.30 Band programme 10. 0 Merry and bright 40.30 Close down

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Ay Y 680 k.c. 441 m. 7. Oam. Daventry news 7.15 (approx.) Breakfast session 9.15-9.30 (approx.) Daventry news 11. 0 Recordings 12. 0 Daventry news 12.15 (approx.)-2.0 p.m. Luncheon session 5. O Light music 5.30 Children’s session 5.45 Daventry news 6.15 "The Old-time The-ayter: Time and Tide, or the Bargee’s Daughter" 6.30 Saturday special 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 8.5 "The Masked Masqueraders" 8.35 Shall we dance? 9.0 Daventry news 9.10 For the music lover 10. 0 Close down 5/4 GREYMOUTH 940k.c. 319m. 6.50a.m. Weather report..for aviators 7.0 Daventry news 7.10 Breakfast session 945 baventry news 9.25 Morning programme 10. 0-10.10 Weather report 12. O° Daventry news bs 4 p.m. Luncheon musig Selected recordings ;. ° Football relayed from Rugby Park 4.30 Merry melodies 5.0 Light variety 6.15 "The Crimson Trail" 5.45 Daventry news 6. & Dinner music 6.30 Tales from the pen of Edgar Alien Poe: Final episode: "The Murder in the Rue Morgue" 6.43 lkadio revue 7.0 News service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department 7.20 Spotlight parade -7.45 Joan of Arc 8.0 The International Radio Orchestra -8.10."The Booby Trap’: A mystery thriller by W. Graeme-Holder. Produced in the studios of the NBS 8.54 . "Songs the Boys are Singing" with Primo Scala’s Accordion Band 9. O Daventry news 9.10 Stars Calling 9.20 Lupino Lane, with Teddy St, Dennis and Company, present ‘‘The Lambeth Walk" 9.27 Dance to correct tempo by Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra, Maxwell Stewart’s Ballroom ; Melody , 10.0 Close down 2 NAPIER 760k.c. 395m. 7. Oa.m. Daventry news 7.10 Breakfast session /9.16 Daventry news 41. 0 Light music 42. 0 Daventry news 12.15-2.0 p.m. Lunch session -& 0 Light music 6.30 For the children, featuring ‘‘Paradise Plumes and Head-Hunters" 5.45 Daventry news 6. 0 bo ag Robison and Pioneers 6.15 ight music 6.30 Ee he Japanese Houseboy" :@A5 Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay Summary of Hawke’s Bay Rugby results © Re-broadcast of Government news 15 "The Circle of Shiva" Q The Great -Symphony Orchestra, "Jolly Robbers" Overture (Suppe) 9 Covent Garden Opera Company, "Brother Dear and Sister Dear," "Oh, What a Feast, What a Wondrous Night" from ‘Fledermaus" (Strauss) : 8.18 The Mayfair Orchestra, "Lake i "Waiata Maori" (Alfred

8.24 Heifetz (violin), "Valse Bluette" (Drigo) 8.27 Sylvia Cecil (soprano) 8.36 New Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra, "Summer Days’? Suite (Coates): 1. In a Country Lane; 2. On the Edge of the Lake 43 Beniamino Gigli (tenor) 52 The Lang-Worth Concert Orchestra, "Malaquena" (Moszkowski), "Triana" (Albeniz) 9.0 Daventry news 9.10 "The Crimson Trail" 9.21 Light music 10. 0 Close down 2 Y N 920k.c. 327m. 7. Op.m. Local Rugby results; programme of light popular music 8. O Concert programme 8.10 "Singapore Spy" 8.35 Light recitals 9.15 Dance music 9.30 Swing session 10. 0 Close down QW WELLINGTON 990 k.c. 303 m. 7. Op.m. "You Asked for It": From listeners to listeners ‘ 10. O Close down 2 AUCKLAND 1250k.c. 240m. 1. Op.m. Band music, vocal gems, light orchestral items, piano medleys 2.20 Light vocal and organ selections 3. 0 Running commentary on football match, relayed from Eden Park 4.45 Light vocal, orchestra] and popular selections 7. 0 Sports results: Bill Hendry 7.30 Orchestral numbers 8.0 Dance session 12. 0. Close down