SATURDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 77, 13 December 1940, Page 42

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ll Y 650 k ¢. 462 m. 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 8 0 "Entertainers All" 10,0 Devotional Service, conducted by Pastor C. H. Barton 70.16 "In Holiday Mood" 41.09 "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists: Jane Austen," by Margaret Johnston 41.16 ‘Domestic Harmony" 42. 0 Lunch music 1. Op.m. District week-end ‘weather forecast (1.15, NEWS FROM | LONDON) 2.0 ‘Rhythm in Relays" 3.30 Sports results 4.30 Sports results GB. 0 Children’s session (‘ Cinderella’) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "A Thousand and One Nights’ (Strauss); "Japanese Intermezzo" (Chapius); Viennese Waltz Medley (Strauss); "Love's Lullaby’’ (Bourdon); "Summer Festival’ (Bruckner); Old England’ (arr. Krish); "Count of Luxembourg’ Potpourri (Lehar); "‘Londonderry. Air’ (arr. Grainger); ‘"‘Guitarre"’ (Mészkowsht); "Mind Your Step" (Fischer); ‘Moorish March" (Mohr); "Prelude in D" (Bach); "Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ (Bratton); ‘Fru Always Be Your Comrade True ee (Stolz); "Thine Eyes so Blue and Tender" (Lassen); "Dance of the Merry Mascots" (Ketelbey); "The Old Church Belis"’ | (Farrar). 6.55 Dominion and district weather Teports 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 Topical Talk from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: London Symphony Orchestra, "The Merrymakers" Miniature Overture ............. Coates 7.36 Studio recital by the Carina Trio (vocal), "Christmas Carol" (Hungarian folk song) ‘Nativity Song" . Plympton "Sleep, Holy Child" (old French Noel) "Lo, how a Rose e’er BloomSg TS sah. cclh ato . Praetorius 7.48 W. H. Squire (’cello), "Andante Religioso " , Thome 7 CPRGNOGN, ccttketiittortense SaquUek 7.56 Studio recital by Fred Frean (baritone), "Don Juan’s Serenade" Tchaikovski "Nelson’s Gone a-Sailing" Lohr "Yeomen of England," "Rolling Down to Rio" . German 8.8 Studio recital by Joyce Billing (piano), "Caprice Espagnole " Moszkowski "Clair de Lune" .... Debussy ' — Mote Perpetuo" York Bowen 820 Studio tal by Patricia 4 McLeod (soprano) in a group of Highland melodies, sung in Gaelic, Saivekoshoe’. s arr. Te te inser "Tittle Brown Island in the cean" trad. ' "Isle of My Heart" .... trad.

8.32 London Symphony Orchestra, Suite: "Meadow to Mayfair" Coates 8.44 Buccaneers Male Octet, "Maiden Fair, Oh Deign to PRE? essiczcesess Coven aaa eek Haydn "Give a Man a Horse" O’Hara 8.49 London Palladium Orchestra, "March of the Bowmen" Curzon "Sousa on Parade" arr. Palmer 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 9.25 Variety, featuring Fred Astaire, Patricia Rossborough, C. B. Cochran, as compére, and Frank Luther and Company 10. 0 Radio despatch from New Zealand Troops in the Middle East 10. 5 Sports summary 10.156 DANCE MUSIC 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON, fol-. lowed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN | NZ AUCKLAND $ 880k¢. 341m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 "Filmland Memories": Allan Jones in songs from ‘" The Great Victor Herbert " 8A2 Merry melodies | 8.30 "The Dark Horse" 8.45 Radio extravaganza 9.34 "The Sentimental Bloke" 10. O Variety 10.30 Close down P24 AUCKLAND 1250k¢e 240m. 41. Op.m. Band music, vocal gems, light orchestral and popular medleys 3. 0 Piano selections, light popular and Hawaiian items 5. 0 -_ orchestral and popular numers 7. O Sports results and comments: Bill Hendry .30 Orchestral session QO Dance programme O Close down 2 y . 570k ¢. 526m. When Parliament is being broadcast this programme will be transmitted b 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 6.50 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 410. 0 Weather report for aviators 40.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Popular melodies 10.2810 10.30 Time signals 10.45 "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists: Charlotte Bronte," by Margaret Johnston 41. 0 Something for everybody

12.0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 41. 0 Weather report for aviators and week-end forecast 2.0 Saturday matinee 3.28 t0 3.30 Time signals 4.0 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): mi "Poet and Peasant Overture’ (Suppe); Yvonne" (Nicholls); "Don't Cry Little Girl" (Rays); "Coppelia Fantasy’ (Delibes); "Dorfkinder’" Waltz (Kalman); "Covent Garden’ (Coates); "The Chinese Story Teller" (Dreyer); ‘"‘Gasparone" Piano Medley; "Trouvle in Paradise" 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 "Britain Speaks" 7.28t0.7.30 Time signals 7.30 Reserved 7.45 EVENING PROGRAMME: A Voice, a Violin, a Wurlitzer, featuring Sidney Torch: "Ding! Dong! Ding!" .. Evans Olive Groves: "Smilin TROUT: | cccisccdicccecsctisininn Penn Albert Sandler: "Parted" Tosti Olive Groves: "Under Heaven’s Blue" ........... . Payan Sidney Torch: "Round the Marble Arch" ..........00 iin ae 8. 0 Popular orchestral and carol concert (relayed from the Town Hall) NBS String Orchestra and 2YA Concert Orchestra (augmented) (conductor: Andersen Tyrer) "Children’s Overture" Quilter Heddle Nash, the brilliant English tenor Combined Orchestra, "Water Music" Suite . Handel Nanette Andersen Tyrer (violinist), "Ave Maria" Schubert-Wilhelmj "Zigeunerweisen" . Sarasate Combined Orchestra, "Christmas Overture" Coleridge-Taylor 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 9.25 Combined Orchestra, "Pomp and _ Circumstance March No. 4" csscscessesee «. Elgar Heddle Nash, English tenor Combined Orchestra, "Merrie England’"’ Selection German Christmas carols by choir and audience 10. O Radio despatch from the New (approx.) Zealand Forces in the Middle East 10. 5 Sports summary 10.15 Dance programme 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN

QV, WELLINGTON 840kc, 357m. } . Op.m. Tunes for the tea-table Q Musical menu Oo After dinner music 0 A Christmas Party, featuring "Krazy Kapers" at 8.30 10. 0 Laughter and song 10.30 Close down OVO Soke itm 7. Op.m. You Asked For It session: From listeners to lsteners 10. 0 Close down 2} Y 810kc. 370m. 6.30 p.m, Children’s session 7.30 Sports results and reviews 8. 0 Music, mirth and melody 9. 0 Weather report and station notices 9.2 Recordings 10. 0 Close down QV nl 750 kc. 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 (1.45 NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. O Light music 5.30 For the children: " Paradise Plumes and Head-Hunters’"’ 5.45 Light music 6. 0 "Carson Robison and his Pioneers" 6.15 NEWS FROM LONDON and topical talk 6.45 Weather forecast. Senior Cricket results 7. 0 After dinner music 7.15 Topical war talk from the BBC 7.30 "The Circle of Shiva" 8.0 Grand Opera Orchestra, " Hungarian Lustspiel Overture" (Bela) 8. 6 Miliza Korjus (soprano) 8.15 The Boston Promenade Orchestra, " Coppelia"’ Czardas, "Dance of the Automatons" and " Waltz" Delibes 8.22 Recital by Joseph Hislop (tenor) 8.36 William Murdoch (piano), " The Bees’ Wedding," "Song Without Words No. 47" (Mendelssohn); "Hark, Hark the Lark" (Schu-bert-Liszt), "Waltz in C Sharp Minor" (Chopin) 8.45 The State Opera Orchestra, "Reminiscences of Grieg "’ 8.52 Eric Coates with Symphony Orchestra, "Symphonic Rhapsodies "* (Coates) 9.0 NBS news reel: A digest of the 5 day’s news 9 BBC News Commentary 9.25 " Thrills" 9.40 Light music 0. 0 Radio despatch from the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East 10. 5 Close down QIN ste arm. 7. Op.m. "Listeners’ own session" 8. "London Palladium Orchestra, "The Golden Valse’’ (arr. Winter) 8.10 "Scott of Scotland Yard" 8.50 Light recitals 9.15 Dance music 9.30 Swing session 10. 0 Close down

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5) y 720k c. 416m. 6. Oa.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 10. 0 Classical programme 10.30 Devotional Service 10.46 Hall of Fame 11. 0 "The Morning Spell’: "The Cheerful Taker," by Mrs. Mary Scott 11.10 Light orchestral session 11.30 Popular tunes 12. 0 Lunch music (1.145 pm, NEWS FROM LONDON) 2. 0 Musical snapshots 2.30 Qpening of Christmas Party for the children of overseas soldiers (relayed from the Automobile Association rooms) Radio Allsorts Frost and special weather-forecast Bands and basses 4.30 Sports results Rhythm and melody &. 0 Children’s’ session: (Mrs. Dalton’s Mandolins) ; 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM | LONDON and Topical Talk): "Immortal Strauss"; ‘"‘Sevillana’’ (Ferraris); ‘"‘"Venetian Gondola Song’ (Mendelssohn); "‘Aubade Printaniere’ (Lacombe); "Yes Madam?" Selection; "‘Donkey’s Serenade" (Friml); "Salut D’Amour" (Elgar); "Land of Smiles’ Selection (Lehar); "Veil Dance" (Goldmark); ‘Kleiner Tanz’ (Borschel); "‘Montmartre March’’ (Wood); "‘The Alpmaid’s Dream" (Labitzky); "Three O'Clock in the Morning’ (Jerriss); "Circus March" (Smetana). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7.0 Local news service 7.15 Topical War Talks from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: The Alfredo Campoli Grand Orchestra, "The Eric Coates Parade" 7.39 "Exploits of the Black Moth": "Surprise for Smithers" 8. 3 FROM THE STUDIO: Rita and John in a Musical Romance 8.18 New Mayfair Orchestra, "Old Music Hall Memories" 8.25 Harry Horlick and his Orchestra, : "Memory Lane" ............ "Cecile Waltz" ........... MeKee Pagan Love Song" .... Brown "Meet Me To-night in Dreamland" ........:........... Freidman 8.35 FROM THE STUDIO: George Titchener (comedian), "The Siren of Spain" pp aco Handley "The Girl Who Thought" Gibson 8.45 Louis Levy and his Orchestra, "Everybody Sing" .... Jurman "Broadway Melody of 1938" 8.57 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 8. O NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 8.156 BBC News Commentary 9.26 DANCE MUSIC 10. 0 RADIO DESPATCH from the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East 10. 5 Sports summary 10.156 DANCE MUSIC 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation musie 11.30 CLOSE DOWN

SIVA CHRISTCHURCH 1200kc¢. 250m. 6. Op.m. Recordings 6. 0 ‘Music for everyman’ 7. O After dinner music 8. 0 Symphonic Programme, featuring at 8.24, the London Symphony Orchestra, "Falstaff Op. 68" (Elgar); and at 9.24, Viadimir Horowitz (piano), and the London Symphony Orchestra, "Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30" (Rachmaninoff) 10. O Favourite entertainers 10.30 Close down SAR Ma eae tr 6.50 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 Bright spot "Joan of Arc" Dinner music "William the Conqueror" ht FROM LONDON and Topical a Sporting results, station notices Merry moments Topical War Talks from the BBC International Novelty Orchestra "The Channings " Spotlight parade, featuring at 8.30, "Here’s a Queer Thing" NBS Newsreel BBC News Commentary Dance with: Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, Maxwell Stewart and his Ballroom Melody, Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra; interludes by Kenny Baker 10. O Radio d@spatch from the N.Z. Forces in the Middle East 10. 5 Close down NV 4 DUNEDIN 790 k c. 380 m. 6. Qa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON Hom Rosmoonoccanso ao Boh PONNNS® SoggTINA=Noow@rN R= ago 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx) Breakfast session 8.456 NEWS FROM LONDON

10. 0 Weather report for aviators 10.10 Random ramblings 10.50 "A Shelter in Your Garden," by Mrs. Prior 11. 0 Melodious memories; Novelty and humour 12.0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.0 Weather report (including for aviators) 2. 0 Vaudeville Matinee; Bands, Banjos and baritones 3.30 Sports results 3.46 Revels, recitals and rhythm; music in a cafe 4.45 Sports results 6. 0 Children’s session: ("How to Make"? Club) ; 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Merry Widow" Selection (Lehar); "Mouse in the Clock" (Hunt); ‘"‘Holladrio"’ (Schmidseder); "Oh, My Dear Ones" (Trad.); "Mon Cherie, Mon Ami" (Stolz); "Carmen" Capers (Bizet); "Caprice Viennois’’ (Kreisler); "Snow (Lowry); "Why Should We Fall in Love?" (Trad.), "Nina" (Livschakoff); "‘Mighty Lak’ a Rose" (Nevin); "‘In the Marionettes Shop’ (Rich); "The Music Comes" (Straus); "Coronation March" (Kretschmer); ‘Faust’ Frolics (Gounod). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 Topical War Talks from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: g Marius B. Winter and his Orchestra, "State Ball Memories" 7.40 Margaret Eaves (soprano), "T Love the Moon" .... Rubens "T’ll Walk Beside You" Lockton 7.46 Rosario Boumlion Symphony, "Changing of the Guard" Flotsam and Jetsam "Gipsy Dance" "Ouvre ta Fenétre" .... Bizet PAHO SLOUORG © gcickkvostivcsins trad. 7.57 Dunedin Harmony Four in a Studio recital, "Bells of Seville" ............ Jude "Lovely Night" ..... Churatai 8. 3 The New Light Symphony Orchestra, "Four Ways Suite" .... Coates 8.15 Studio recital by Marion Duncan (contralto), "Four Ducks on a Pond" Needham "Fisher Lad" ........ ittidua Day 8.23 The Chenil Orchestra, "The Damask Rose" Selection arr. Clutsam 8.31 Dunedin Harmony Four, "Come Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl’’ ......... euial Lee "Sweet Kitty Clover" . Hewitt 8.37 Barnabas von Geczy Orchestra, "Bavarian Wedding" . Rixner "Monika" Tango . Kotscher 8.43 Marion Duncan (contralto), "My Ships?" .....cc..ccocse Barratt "Harvester’s Night Song" Power 8.49 Boston Promenade Orchestra, "Eugen Onegin" Polonaise Tchaikovski "Stars and Stripes for Ever" Sousa 8.57 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices

9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC Commentary 9.25 Dance music 10. O Radio despatch from the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East 10. 5 Sports summary 10.15 Dance music 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation musie 11.30 CLOSE DOWN aw DUNEDIN 140kce. 263m. 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea-table . © An hour of melody and song O After dinner music 45 "The Crimson Trail" O Mainly instrumental 30 The Mystery Ciub: " The Wishing Stone" OQ Military and brass band programme 10.0 People in pictures 10.30 Close down AY INVERCARGILL , 680k c. 441m. 7. Oar. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45-9.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 41. 0 Recordings 12. 0-2.0 p.m. ee eens (1:15, NEWS 5 p FROM LON . O Children’s fein 6.15 Saturday special of new releases 6. 0 "Carson Robison and his Buck- " aroo 6.15 a FROM LONDON and Topical 6.50 To-day’s sports results 7.0 =Accordiana 7.15 Topical War Talks from the BBC A Screen snapshots 8. 0 Shall we dance? An hour of modern dance music; interludes by The Street Singer 8.57. Weather reports, station notices 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.156 BBC News Commentary 9.26 Late sporting 9.80 For the musical connoisseur, introducing Wagner’s " Magic Fire Music " from ‘" The Valkyries," and Liszt’s " Tarantelle" from ‘" Venezia Napoli" 10. 0 Radio despatch from the N.Z. Forced in the Middle East 10. & Close down

Gardening Talks 1YA: 2YA: 3YA: 4YA: 4YZ: 1ZB: 2ZB: 3ZB: 4ZB: 2ZA: Tuesday, December 17, 7.10 p.m. Wednesday, December 18, 7.30 p.m. Monday, December 16, 7.10 p.m. Thursday, December 19, 7.10 p.m. Friday, December 20, 7.30 p.m. Saturday, December 21, 12.45 p.m. Saturday, December 21, 8.30 a.m. Monday, December 16, 9.30 p.m. Wednesday, December 18, 9.30 p.m. Saturday, December 21, 6.0 p.m. Tuesday, December 17, 6.45 p.m.