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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 76, 6 December 1940, Page 39

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NY, AUCKLAND 650 k c. 462m. ’ 7 6. Oa.m. 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 9.0 "With a Smile and a Song" 10. 0 Devotional Service, conducted by Pastor D. L. Wolf 10.15 "Records at Random" 411. 0 "Shoes and Ships and SealingWax," by Nelle Scanlan 11.16 "To Lighten the Task" 12. 0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM DAVENTRY) 2.0 "From Our Library" 2.30 Classical music 3.30 Sports results ‘ "In Varied Mood’"’ 4. 0 Special weather report for farmers and light music 4.30 Sports results 6. 0 children’s session: (‘‘Cinderella" and "Aunt Jean,’ with feature, "David and Dawn in Fairyland’) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Strauss Polkas’’ (Strauss); ‘PusztaMarchen" (Schulenburg); Popular Selection; | "Chinese Rhythm" (Hellier); "Happy. Journey" (Kunneke); "Song of Hawaii’ (Bories); "Chanson Bohemienne (Boldi); "Sunshine in Spring’ (Curtis); "Le Petit Capitaine’ (Raquelle); "A Gipsy Lament" (Rode); "Dream Waltz" (Millocker); "Carmen" Selection (Bizet); ‘Seville’ (Wood); "rm in Love With Vienna" (Strauss); "Serenade" (Pierne); "Speak to Me of Love" (Lenoir). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7.0 Local news service 7.15 Sports talk by Gordon Hutter 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Sir Adrian Boult with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, "Coriolan" Overture Beethoven 7.40 Reading of Poetry by Professor Sewell, "Lyrics": Tennyson, Arnold and Hopkins 8. 0 Felix Weingartner with the London Symphony Orchestra, Concerto Grosso in G Minor Handel 8.16 Studio recital by Leo Foster (baritone), "Ah! Poor Heart" .... Haydn "T Will Not Chide" : Schumann "O Shady Wood" ........ Brahms " None but the Lonely Heart " Tchaikovski 8.28 Albert Wolff. and the Lamoureux Orchestra, "Namouna" ccc Lalo. 8:54 Ninon Vallin (soprano), | 3 "T’Heure Exquise" .... Hahn 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 Vernon Bartlett, M.P. 9.25 Lauritz Melchior (tenor) and the Philadelphia Orchestra, "Only One Weapon Serves" "Beloved Swan" .... Wagner 9.33 Grand Symphony Orchestra, Suite "Algerienne" Saint-Saens

10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN IY AUCKLAND | 880k. 341m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After dinner music | 8. 0 "Rhythm ali the Time" 8.15 Radio romp 9.0 "Sing As We Go" 9.25 Favourites from musical comedies 10. O Light recitals 10.30 Close down 1250k¢, 240m. \02 AUCKLAND 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular programme 7. O Orchestral and instrumental music 8. 0 ‘ Maorilander’’: Tit-Bits 8.20 Instrumental interlude 8.40 ‘"Pamela’s" weekly chat 9. 0 Concert 10. 0 Close down 2 y 570k ¢. 526m. When Parliament is being broadcast, this programme will be transmitted by 2YC. Usual hours of Parliament, 10.30 a.m. to 1 p.m.. and 2.30 to 5.30 p.m. 6. O0a.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) District weather report Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 9. 0 Morning variety 10, 0 Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional service 10.25 Favourite melodies 10.2810 10.30 Time signals 10.45 ‘Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax," by Nelle Scanlan 11. 0 Versatile artists : 12.0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m, NEWS FROM LONDON) 41. 0 Weather report for aviators 2. 0 Classical hour 3.0 A.C.E. TALK: "Christmas Preparations" 3.16 Rhythm on the piano 3.28 103.30 Time signals Weather report for farmers, and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago 3.32 Popular tunes 4. 0 Sports results Celebrity session 4.15 Afternoon vaudeville 5. 0 Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and topical talk): "The Waltz Kings" (Lindemann); ‘‘Capricious Intermezzo’’ (Micheli); "Evening Belis" (Billi); "Doll Dance’ (Brown); "Moonlight on the Alster" (Fetras); "Baby's Birthday’ (Busch); "Fire Dance’ (Falla); "Ballroom Whispers" (Helmund); "Melodies from Scandinavia’; "When Budapest Was Young" (Milos); "Intermezzo" (Strauss). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 "Britain & s" 7.2810 7.30 Time signals 7.30 Reserved

7.45 8.32 8.36 8.57 9. 0 9.15 9.25 9.38 9.46 10. 0 EVENING .PROGRAMME: Melody Masters Grand Opera Orchestra, "Eugen Onegin-Waltz" : Tchaikovski 7.50 Stuart Robertson (bassbaritone), "Silent Worship" .... Handel 7.53 Fritz Kreisler (violinist), "Humoreske ". i,....000i. Dvorak 7.57. Richard Tauber (tenor) "SROVONRUG fx io ace Schubert 8. 0 Orchestra de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris, * Minnet sas ee Boccherini "Is Verse so Alarming?": A conversational piece, with illustrations, by Charles Thomas, "A Queen’s Secluded Garden" Julie Werry (soprano) sings from the studio, Modern French songs: "Chanson de Florian"..Godard SY OG A OEE cinctinn Rabey _" Obstination " .... Fontanailles "Vous Dansez Marquise" Lemaire Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, "Voices of Spring "....Strauss "T Pulled Out a Plum," by " Gramofan" Dominion and district weather reports, and station notices NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary, by Vernon Bartlett, M.P. Concert by the Trentham Military Band (conductor, Lieut. C, Pike) The Band, March, "Australasian " Rimmer Hymn, " Rutherford" Cornet duet, "The Titlarks " Hume "Meek’s Antiques": "The Munro Necklace" The Band, Humoresque, "Baa Baa Black NS a ite ee aR Campbell Descriptive, "A Rustic Fete" | Hawkins | March, "Machine Gun Guards" | "Rhythm on Record": A pro(approx.) gramme of new dance record11. 0 11.30 ings, compéred by "Turntable" NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN QV — = ty F: PAP F 10. 0 40.30 . Op.m. Tunes-for the tea-table Musical menu After dinner music Two of a Kind:.A programme by famous duettists Sonata and chamber music hour, featuring at 9.36, Willlam Pleeth (cello) and Margaret Good (piano), "Sonata No. 1 in B Flat" (Mendelssohn) Let’s have a laugh Close down

QW WELLINGTON 990kc¢. 303m. 7. Op.m. Showmen of Syncopation 7.35 People in Pictures 8. 5 Musical Digest 8.33 Carson Robison and his Buckaroos 8.45 ‘His Lordship’s Memoirs" 9.12 Medliana 9.32 "Thrills" 9.46 Tattoo 10. 0 Close down NAB NEW PLYMOUTH 810ke. 370m. 8. Op.m. Studio programme 9. O -Weather report and station notices 9. 2 Recordings 10. 0 Close down QV rl 750 ke. 395 m. 7. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 41. 0 Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. 0 For the children 6. 0 "The Japanese Houseboy" 6.15 ag FROM LONDON and Topical alk 6.45 Weather forecast. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" 7. 0 After dinnner music 7.30 Variety hour 8.30 Dance session 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news , 9.15 BBC News Commentary, by Vernon Bartlett, M.P. 9.26 Light music 9.45 "Tales from the Pen of Edgar Allan Poe" 10. 0 Close down VIN sate nm, Op.m. Light popular music .380 Carson Robison and his Pioneers . O Sketches, light music . Oo 30 Light classical Excerpts from Grand Opera 35 "Japanese Houseboy" Q Close down SOOOMM~IN 1

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SAG CHRISTCHURCH 720k ¢. 416m. 6.:0a.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON ; 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) Breakfast sesison a NEWS FROM LONDON 0 O Morning melodies Q Classical programme 30 Devotional Service 5 Hall of Fame O "Shoes and Ships and SealingWax," by Nelle Scanlan 11.15 TALK: "Help for the Home Cook," by Miss J. M. Shaw 11.30 Popular tunes 12. 0 Lunch pupae (1.15 p.m, NEWS FROM 2.0 . Music on strings 2.30 Rhythm parade 3. 0 Classical programme 4. 0 Frost. and special weather forecast 4.5 Variety programme 4.30 Sports results Light orchestral and ballad programme 5. 0 Children’s session: ("‘Niccolo, Puzzle Pie, Book Lady" 6.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Talk): "The. Barber of Seville’ Overture (Rossini); "A Little Dance’’ (Borschel); "The A.B.C.. March" (Foort); "Rainy Weather" (Caros); ‘Grotesque’ (Kormann); "Fickle Fancy Wallis’ (Strauss); "Love's Romance" (Sendry); "Chopin Melodies" ; "Ginger Bread House" (Humperdinck); * "Serenade" (Drigo); "Cherry Ripe’’ (arr. Bridge).; "Td Bring the Heav ens to You" ‘Enirance of the Liitle Founs" (Pierne); ‘Mosquito Dance"’ (White); "Les Fleurs Waltz" (Waldteufel); "Stdy Close to Me"’ (Kreuder); ‘Shadows on the Wall" (Schutze) ; "By the Fireside" Beret : (Waldteufel). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Loval news: service 7.15 TALK: "Old-time South Westland." : ReeoHections by A, P. Harper 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: "Music from the Theatre" " Scheherazade" to the music of Rimsky-Korsakov 8.20 Studio recital by Lois Manning (pianist), "Prelude Minuet and Reel" Pitfield "Danse. Bohemienne " , Debussy "Flirtation in a Chinese Garden," "Rush Hour in Hong Kong RETRO aw. Chasins 8.33 ‘the ' Marie Campbell (contralto), "Oh to be a Gipsy" Forster " Melisande in the Wood" Goetz "My Dear Soul" Sanderson "Soul of Mine" ........ Barnes "Coming Home" .... Willeby 8.46 Yehudi Menuhin " God’s Worship" ........ Bloch "Malaguena" ........ Sarasate 8.57 Dominion and weather ‘reports and station notices 8. 0 NBS newsreel: A digest of ’ the day’s news 9165 BBC news ag cts by Vernon Bartlett, M 9.25 The 3YA ee (conducted by Will Hutchens, Mus.Bac.), "Sylvan Scenes" Suite tcher Fle rey Fletcher, who died in 1932, was a, composer of the best type of ular music, a man of experience in Peery department of the theatrical Cpt gene sion, and one who knew every inch of the theatre from the box-office to the stage door-for years he was musical director of His Theatre. He was, like his

colleague, Eric Coates, born in the Midlands, at Derby. Apart from his music: for the theatre, he produced a quantity of cleverly written, very tuneful and. extremely popular music, of which this Suite is a characteristic example, 9.37 Thomas L. Thomas (baritone) "De Glory Road" .... Wolfe " Dedication" .......... Franz "Sea Rapture" ........ Coates 9.47 The Orchestra: | "The World in the Open Air" Suite ......... Montague Phillips

10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music 171.30 CLOSE DOWN SIVA CHRISTCHURCH 1200 kc. 250 m. 5. Op.m. Recordings 6. 0 "Music for Everyman" 7.0 After dinner music 8.0 ‘Circle of Shiva" 8.14 Music of the flowers 8.33 ‘The kentucky Minstrels": A BBC recorded programme 9.0 Dance musie 9.30 ‘ Mittens" 9.43 Vaudeville 10. 0: Ligint music 10.30 Close down 5 YZARD) GREYMOUTH | 940k c. 319m. | ey pays Weather report for aviators NEWS FROM LONDON 730 Breakfast. session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 5 Morning music 9.30 Josephine Clare: "Good Housekeeping’ : O Weather report 10. 10-10.30 Devotional Serviée 12. O Lunch music 1.15 p.m. NEWS FROM LONDON 3.0 Afternoon programme 3.30 Classical programme " Dance hits and popular songs 4.30 Weather report. Variety 5. O Children’s session 5.30 Dinner music 6.15 eh Ws FROM LONDON and Topical alk 6.40 After dinner music

-_--- Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadie: Guards, Sidney Burehall (baritone), Cairns Citizens’ Band Mirthmakers on the air: Flanagan and Allen, Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees, Reginald Gardiner Play, orchestra, play Songs that have sold a million Raymonde and his Band of Banjos Hits from the movies NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s -news RBC News ¥ eseee aed by Vernon Bartlett, M.P

9.256 ‘Carson Robison & his Pioneers" 9.37 Louis Levy and his Orchestra 9.44 Plays for the people: "Eat and Grumble" 10. 0 Close down : r 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 10.0 Weather report for aviators 10.15 Devotional service 10.50 "Shoes and Ships and Sealing-Wax," by Nelle Scanlan 11. 0 A talk by Miss J. Ainge: "Cooking by Gas" 11.15 hits and pieces; In my garden 12,0 Luneh music (1.15 p.m., NEWS ‘ FROM LONDON) 1.0 Weather report (including for aviators) 2.0 Music of the Celts; Rhythms of the Keyboard; Afternoon reverie 3.15 A.C.E. TALK: "Holiday Routine" 3.30 Sports results Classical music 4.0 Weather report and special frost forecast for farmers 4.30 Music in a Cafe 4.45 Sports results 5. O Children’s ‘session. (Big Brother Bill) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and topical talk): "Orpheus in. Hades’ Selection (Offenbach); "In Gipsy Land" (arr. Michaelojf); "Golden Shower’ (Waldteufel); "The Litt of Lehar’; "The Grand Duchess" Galop (Offenbach); "Danee the Moonlight Walts With Me" (Greene); ‘"‘Radetzky"’ March (Strauss); "EBili, Bili’’ (Trad.); "La Boheme" Selection (Puccini); "Serenade" (Moszkow-

ski); "Carmen Sylva" (Ivanovici); "Indian Mail" (Lamothe); ‘Viva el Torero" (Mackeben); "I'm in Love all Over Again’’ (McHugh); "Wedding Dance Waltz’ (Lincke)s "Entrance of the Little Fauns’’ (Pierne). 6.55 Dominion and district weather re7. 0 anal news service 7.10 Recorded talk by Rev, G. H. East~ man, "Building Christian Civilisation in Britain’s Remotest Colony" 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Geraldo and his Orchestra, "Follow the Fleet" Selection Berlin 40 "Dad and Dave" 53 "Rhumba Rhythms and Tango Tunes" 8. 8 "The Theatre Box": "The Stolen Bride" Burlesque 8.21 Variety: Harry Breuer Group, the Dreamers (vocal trio) and Richard Leibert (organ) 8.43 "The Cirele of Shiva" 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 Vernon Bartlett, M.P. 9.25 BBC Symphony Orchestra, "Pomp and _ Circumstance BRO ccedictrepsetn iasiebooes, MURR 9.30 Prof. T. D. Adams, Readings from Shakespeare "Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king" (Richard IT.) 10. O Dance music by Dick Colvin and his Music 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN aly DUNEDIN 140k ¢. 263 m. 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea-table 6.0 An hour of melody and song 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 For the music lover 9. 0 Fireside memories 9.15 Dancing time 10. 0 Humour and harmony . 10.30 Close down Al, Y 680kc, 441 m. 7. Gam. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 bneakfast session 8.45-9.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 11.0 Kecordings 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. 0 Children’s session: "Round the World with Father Time" 5.15 Merry moments 5.45 eee on Parade: Merry Macs , 9.0: "Thrlis?: 6.156 NEWS FROM LONDON and topical talk ee 6.45 To-morrow’s sport budget, by the "Sportsman" 7. O After dinner music 7.30 Gardening talk 7.43. Symphonic programme, introducing Dvorak’s "Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op.. 95’ (‘From the New World’), played by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra i 8.30 Presenting for the first time8.57 Weather reports, station notices 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary by Vernon Bartlett, M.P. 9.25 "London Calls the World" (BBC x programme) 10. 8 Close down