SATURDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 72, 8 November 1940, Page 32

SATURDAY

NATIONAL

NZ. AUCKLAND | 650 k.c. 462 m. 6. Oam. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) District weather report, followed by breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON ® 0 "Entertainers All" 410. 0 Devotional Service, conducted by Rev. George Jackson 90.15 "In Holiday Mood" 411.0 "The Morning Spell: Byways," by Mrs. Mary Scott 91.15 ‘ Domestic Harmony" 12.0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 4.0 District week-end weather forecast 20 "Rhythm in Relays" 3.30 Sports results 4.30 Sports results B.O Children’s session (" Cinderella ’’) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "The Merrymakers" (Coates); ‘‘Serenade"’ (Romberg); "Closing Time in the Village" (Schimmelpfennig); ‘"Songe D’Automne"’ (Joyce); "Under the Rainbow" (Waldteufel); "Molly on the Shore" (arr. Grainger); "Ralph Benatzky Selection’; "There's Something in the Air’ (McHugh); "Old Vienna Melodies" (Pollack); "Blue Butterfly" (Steinbacher); "Troika Drive" (Winkler); "Vienna, City of My Dreams" (Sieczynski); "Spring" (Hildach); ‘‘Soiree D’Ete" (Waldteufel); "Waltz of the Flowers" (Tchaikovshi). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 Topical Talk from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: "Treasury of Song" Featuring Gilbert and Sullivan highlights. To-night’s programme includes gems from "The: ‘Mikado," " H.M.S. Pinafore" and "Patience" — 8.30 Studio recital by Joan Dowding (piano), | "Rondo Capriccio" Beethoven "Romance in F Major" "Rhapsody in G Minor" Brahms 8.42 Studio recital by :Ada Lynn (soprano), "Four Indian Love Lyrics" Woodforde-Finden 8.54 Yehudi Menuhin (violin), "Rigaudon" ........ Monsigny 8.57 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 8. © NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC news commentary by A. G. Macdonell * 9.25 Variety, featuring Light Opera Company, Norman Long and Andre Kostelanetz 10. 0 Sports summary 10.10 DANCE MUSIC 11. OQ NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN avg AUCKLAND ; 880k.c. 341m, 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After dinner music 8.0 "Filmland memories": Gracie Fields in numbers from "‘The Show Goes On" 8.12 Rhythm pianists: Len Green 3.30 " Dark Horse "

"Merry and Bright" 9.34 "The Sentimental Bloke" 10. O Finale 10.30 Close down |Z AUCKLAND 1250k.c. 240m, 41. Op.m. Band. selections, vocal gems, light orchestral and popular recordings, piano selections 3. 0 Organ numbers, popular medleys, Hawaiian and light orchestral selections 4.20 Piano-accordion, light vocal, orchestral and popular numbers 7. 0 Sports results and comments: Bill Hendry 7.30 Orchestral selections 8. 0 Dance session 10.10-10.25 Signal preparation for Air Force 10.26 Dance (contd.) 12. 0 Close down 2 y 570 k.c. 526 m. When Parliament is being broadcast this programme will be transmitted 4 2YC. Usual hours of Parliament: 10.3 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2.30 to 5.30 p.m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 6.60 Weather report for aviators 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) District weather report Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 8. 0 Morning variety 410. 0 Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Popular melodies 10.28 t0 10.30 Time signals 10.45 "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists: Jane Austen," by Mararet Johnston QO Something for Everybody 12.0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS NDON) 0 0 FROM LO Weather report for aviators and week-end weather forecast Saturday matinee 3.2810 3.30 Time signals 4.0 Sports results GB. OQ Children’s session

5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Blue Danube Waliz"’ (Strauss); ‘‘Little Girl"; "The Dancer" (Pedersen); "May I Have the Next Romance With You?" (Revel); "Secrets" (Rust); "My Shining Star" (trad.); "Christmas Fantasy."’ 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.16 "Britain Speaks" 7.2810 7.30 Time signals 7.30 Reserved 7.45 EVENING PROGRAMME: Record Constellations: Some of the brightest stars of the recording studios 8.1 "Krazy Kapers": Another instalment of this hilarious variety show 8.28 Melody Time: Albert Kerry (violin), "Souvenir de Vienne" Provost Dorothy Lebish (contralto), "Love’s Old Sweet Song" Molloy Massed orchestra of ’cellos, "Traumerei" ........ Schumann 8.37 The Radio Dominoes present from the Studio: Gems from Musical Comedy, "The Toast" ........ Cellier "One Moment, Pray". "COO" _ .....ccccscrseveeere Monckton "Yoho Little Girls" "The Moon" .i.....0008 JONES One of George Edwardes’s most notable productions was Lionel Monckton’s "A Country Girl,’ put on at Daly’s Theatre in 1902. It ran for 729 performances and is well up in the list of longest runs on the London stage, for less than thirty roductions have exceeded the 640 mark. t was revived in 1914, and again in 1931, and still remains a popular favourite with New Zealand amateur operatic socteties. 8.57 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary by A. G. Macdonell

9.25 DANCE PROGRAMME 10. 0 Sports summary 10.10 Continuation of Dance Programme 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN V4 WELLINGTON, "4 2, 840k.c. 357m. | 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea-table 6. 0 Musical menu 7. 0 After dinner music 8.0 Classics in cameo , 10. 0-10.25 Signal preparation for Air Force 410.30 Close down QV WELLINGTON 990 k.c. 303 m. 7. Op.m. You asked for it: From listeners to listeners 10.0 Close down NAB NEW PLYMOUTH 810k.c. 370m. 30 p.m. Children’s session Sports results and reviews 30 QO Music, mirth and melody O Weather report and station notices 2 i) 6. ys 8. 9: 9. Recordings 0. Close down 1 2 NAPIER 750 k.c. 395 m. 7. Oa.m. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 41, 0 Light music 42. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. 0 Light music 5.30 For the children: ‘Paradise Plumes and Head-Hunters" 6.45 Light music 6.0 "Carson Robison & his Pioneers" 6.15 ib ade FROM LONDON and Topical alk 6.45 Weather forecast. Senior cricket results 7. 0 After dinner music 7.16 Topical War Talks from the BBC 7.30 ‘The Circle of Shiva" 8. 0 Grand Opera Orchestra, "Hungarfan Lustspiel Overture" (Bela) 8. 6 Miliza Korjus (soprano) 8.15 Boston Promenade Orchestra, "Coppelia," Czardas, Dance of the Automatons and Waltz (Delibes) 8.22 Joseph Hislop (tenor) 8.36 William Murdoch (piano), "The ; Bees’ Wedding’? (Mendelssohn) ; "Song Without Words No. 47," "Hark Hark the Lark" (SchubertLiszt), ‘"Waltz in G Sharp Minor" (Chopin) 8.45 The State Opera Orchestra, "Reminiscences of Grieg" 8.62 Symphony. Orchestra, Symphonic Rhapsodies on: "I Pitch My Lonely Caravan," "I Heard You Singing," "Bird Songs at Eventide’ (Coates) 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.16 BBC News Commentary by A, G. Macdonell 9.25 Thrills" 9.40 Light music 10. 0 Close down 2 Y IN] 920 k.c. 327m. 7. Op.m. "Listeners’ Own Session" 8.0 Orchestre Raymonde, "Schubert in Vienna" (arr. Walter) 810 "Scott of Scotland Yard" 8.50 Light recitals 9.15 Dance music Swing session 10. 0 Close down

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SV, CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416m. 6. Qa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 8. 0 Morning melodies 410. O Classical programme 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Hall of Fame 411. 0 ‘‘Mary Makes a Career": " Furnishing the House" 41.10 Light orchestral session 411.30 Popular hits of the day 411.45 Relay from Riccarton of Canterbury Jockey Club’s Meeting 42.0 Lunch music (1.15p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 2. 0 Musical snapshots 2.30 Happy memories 3. 0 Radio allsorts 4. 0 Frost and special weather forecast 4. 5 Bands and basses 4.30 Sports results Rhythm and melody 6B. O Children’s session (‘‘ Riddleman "’) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Monckton Melodies" (arr. Robinson); "Sweetheart Waltz’ (Strauss); "Czardas" (Monti); "Volga Song" (Lehar); ‘Haffner Serenade" Rondo (Mozart); ‘"Streetsinger of Naples" (Winkler); "On the Bay of Naples" (Guardia); "We're Not Dressing" (Revel); "La Tosca" Selection (Puccini); ‘Sweethearts Czardas’’ (Marie); ‘Stephanie Gavotte" (Czibulka); ‘Slavonic Dance, No. #’’ (Dvorak); "Autumn Melodies" (Waldteufel). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 Topical War Talks from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: 8YA Orchestra, conducted by Will Hutchens (Mus.Bac.), "Festival Overture" Leutner 7.38 "Tales of the Silver GreyHound": "Arms and the Messenger " 8. 2 The 3YA Orchestra, "Where the Rainbow Ends" BOR cess ccnteceetiotececeves ‘Quilter 8.16 From the studio: James Duffy Cirish tenor), "Biddy Mulligan" Kavanagh "Laughing Irish Eyes " Stept "Stone Outside Dan Murphy’s Doot " .cisindinats ww, Stanley "T Know an Irish Garden" Case "Two Little Irish Songs " Lohr 8.30 The Orchestra, "A Welsh Rhapsody " Johnstone 8.40 Film fancies: May Questal "When I Grow Up" Heymann "Animal Crackers in My CO nica . Henderson 8.46 Louis Levy and the Gaumont British Symphony, "Broadway Melody of 1938" 8.52 Bing Crosby (vocal), "Empty Saddles" ........ Hill "T’m an old Cowhand" Mercer 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.

8.57 Dominion and district weather 9. 0 9.15 9.25 11. 0 reports and station notices NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC news commentary by A. G. Macdonell Old Time Dance Programme to music by Colin Campbell’s Dance Orchestra (relayed from the Ritz Ballroom) 10. 0 Sports summary NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN STVALI CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. e. 7 0 0 p.m. Recordings "Music for Everyman" After dinner music

8. © Symphonic programme, featuring Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, laying "Symphony No. 4 in C inor, Op. 68" (Brahms); and at 9.28, Yehudi Menuhin (violin), and Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, playing "Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53" (Dvorak) 10. 0-10.25 Signal preparation for Air Force 10.30 Close down B72 GREYMOUTH 940k.c. 319m. a.m. Weather report for aviators NEWS FROM. LONDON Breakfast session NEWS FROM LONDON Snappy programme Weather report Lunch music p.m. NEWS FROM LONDON Variety "The Crimson Trail’ Dinner music "William the Conqueror" oe FROM LONDON and Topical alk Sporting results, station notices Bright tunes Topical war talks from the BBC "Joan of Arc" wey o a OND a POGTGAN*ANO® 1 MNND OME Fy a = wo gog gooceoo

8. 0 Roy Smeck and his Hawaiian Serenaders, and Vera Lynn 8.15 ‘"Here’s a Queer Thing" 8.30 Spotlight parade 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC-News Commentary by A. G. Macdonell 9.25 Here is correct tempo, played by Victor Silvester’s Ballroom Orchestra, Joe Loss and his Band, Mantovani and his Orchestra for Dancing. Interludes by Andrews Sisters 10. 0 Close down { Y 790 k.c. 380 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 10. O Weather report for aviators 10.10 Random ramblings 10.50 ‘The Morning Spell: The Amateur Psychologist," by Mrs. Mary Scott 411. 0 Melodious memories; Novelty and humour 0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 4.0 Weather report (including for aviators) O Vaudeville matinee; Bands, banjos and baritones 3.30 Sports results 3.45 levels, recitals and rhythm; Music in a Cafe 4.45 Sports results 5. 0 ce session ("How to Make" Club) 5.45. Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Maritana’ Overture (Wallace); ‘Apple Blossom’ (Siede); "The Dashing White Sergeant,"’ "‘What’s a’ the Steer?" ‘‘Sherramuir’ (arr. Whyte); ‘Follow the Fleet’ Selection (Berlin); "Love Tales’ (Siede); "Waltzing Doll’. (Poldini); "Thunder and Lightning’ Polka (Strauss); Ballet Music from ‘‘ Faust’’ (Gounod); "Cross for Criss" (Foresythe); "‘Angel’s Serenade" (Braga); "Woman's Life and Love" (Blon); "‘Serenata Appassionata’ (Steiner); "‘March of the Toys" (Herbert); "Valse Bluette"’ (Drigo); "Love's Serenade’ (Glan); "The Gnomes" (Reinhold); ‘Childhood Memories’ (arr. Somers). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 Topical War Talks from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Gil Dech and the 4YA Concert Orchestra, "Plymouth Hoe" Overture Ansell 7.38 Peter Dawson (baritone), "Sea Winds" ........... Harrison "The Legion of the Lost" Western 7.45 The Orchestra, "The Geisha" Selection Jones 7.53 Studio recital by Anne White (soprano), "The Wind’s in the South" Scott "May Dew" ........... Bennett 7.59 The Orchestra, "Miniature Suite" .. Coates 8.141 Peter Dawson (baritone), "The Old Superb" "Homeward Bound" 8.19 The Orchestra, { "Faust Fantasie" arr. Weninger 8.39 Anne White (soprano), "Off to the Greenwood" Brahe "Comin’ Thru’ the Rye" Stanford

8.46 The Orchestra, "Serenade of the Gondolier" Casson "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" ...00....0. Wood "Watling Street March" Johnston 8.57 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC news commentary by A. G. Macdonell 9.25 DANCE MUSIC 10. 0 Sports summary 10.10 DANCE MUSIC 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by Meditation Musie 11.30 CLOSE DOWN ANY © 1140 k.c. 263 m. p.m. Tunes for the tea-table Melody and song After dinner music "Marie Antoinette" Mainly instrumental The Mystery Club: "The Trapeze Act" For the band-lover "People in Pictures’ Close down Uh Y A 680k.c. 441m. 7. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45-9.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 41. 0 Recordings 42. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (4.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. O Children’s session 5.15 Saturday special of new releases 6.0 "Carson Robison & his Buckaroos" 6.15 NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk 6.50 To-day’s sports results 7. 0 Accordiana 7.15 Topical War Talks from the BBC 7.30 Screen snapshots 8. 0 Shall we dance? 8.57 Weather reports and _ station oooo OOD SRONSS oQCoo Of ad w notices 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary by A. G, Macdonell 9.25 Late sporting 8.30 For the music lover 10. 0 Close down