THURSDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 78, 20 December 1940, Page 32

THURSDAY

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| I Y 650 k.c. 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 O "Saying it with Music" 10. O Devotional Service, conducted by Rev. G. Moreton 40,15 ‘‘Melody Trumps" 11. 0 ‘More Bits and Piéces," by Isobel 11.15 ‘Entertainers’ Parade" 11.30 Running commentary on the Auckland Racing Club’s Meeting, relayed from Ellerslie Racecourse 1.15 p.m. NEWS FROM LONDON 2.0 ‘Music which Appeals" 3.30 Sports results 40 Special weather report for farmers, and light music 4.30 Sports results 5. O Children’s session (*‘‘ Cinderella ’’) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Talk): "When the Little Violets Bloom" (Stolz); "Fantasie Orientale" (Lange); "Long Ago" (Kudritzki);_ "Under _ the Starlit Sky" (Roland); "Tango of Longing" (Plessow); "Love in Idleness" (Macbeth); "Prunella" Bridgewater); "The Bartered Bride" uriant (Smetana); "Love's Sorrow" (Kreisier); "Nothing But Lies’ (Jary); "Poppies" (Moret); "Echoes from the "Puszta’ (Ferraris); "Kunz Revivals, No. 5"; "Wind at Night" (Gardens); "‘Delibes in Vienna" (arr. Walter). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7.0 Local news. service 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: London Palladium Orchestra, "The Rose" Selection of Eng- . lish melodies arr. Myddleton 7.40 "An English Christmas" 7.48 Deanna Durbin (soprano), "Alleluia" ......0...008+ Mozart "Love Is All" ..,.000.. Tobias 7.54 Hastings Municipal Orchestr a, "Welsh Rhapsody" . German Although German’s music for the theatre fs no doubt the most popular of all- his work, he has given us aps f instrumental and vocal music of which his Welsh Rbapsody is probably the best known piece. It was specially written for the Cardiff Festival of 1904 and produced there, and is built up on four traditional Welsh tunes. The last section of it is a rousing March on the Splendid tune "‘The Men of Harlech," which is known and enjoyed not merely by Welsh listeners but by music lovers wide world over. 8. 6 "Hard Cash": A dramatic presentation 8.18 "Wandering with the West Wind" .. 8.45 "The Fourth ae’ at St. _Percy’s" 8.57 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of t the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Music by British bands: Medley of Carols. y Lad ay" «- Hesse nder Balcony" r: He ber "The Beacon" ........... Young 5 "The Clarion Call". Hughes | Interlude, 9.34 "Dad and 10. 0 Old-time dance Pa 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, : followed by. meditation . 41.30 CLOSE DOWN ~

| Y 880k¢e. 341m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After. dinner music 8.0 Paul Kochanski (violin), Arthur Rubinstein (piano), "Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108" (Brahms 8.24 Richard Tauber (tenor): ongs from "Winter Journey" (Schubert) 8.36 Busch Quartet, "Quartet in B Flat Major, Op. 168" (Schubert) 9.0 Classical recitals 10. O Variety 10.30 Close down 12 AUCKLAND 1250k¢, 240m, 5. Op.m. Light ‘orchestral and popular session 7. O Sports session: Bill Hendry 7.30 Orchestral interlude | 7.45 "The Life of Cleopatra" 8.0 Old-Time Dance 9.0 Dance session 10. 0 Close down 2 y 570k ¢. 526m. 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 Songs of yesterday and to-day 10. O Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Favourite melodies 10.28 t0 10.30 Time signals 10.45 "Just Homes," by Major Lampen 11. 0 Musical snapshots Progress reports on play in the representative cricket match, Wellington v. Auckland, will be broadcast at 11.15a.m., 11.45, 12.15 p.m., 2.15, 2.45, 3.15, 3.45, 4.15 and 4.45 11,30 Light and shade 12. 0 Lunch music (1.15p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON)

# fe ooo 3.32 5. 0 5.45 "Leo Weather report for aviators Classical music Tunes of yesterday 3.28 t0 3.30 Time signals Weather report for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago Musical comedy 4.0 Sports results Radio variety Children’s session Dinner music (interrupted at 6.0 for progress report on the representative cricket match, and 6.15 for NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): Fall" Potpourrt (arr. Dostal); "Majarska’ (Schulenburg); "Dainty Debutante" .(Wood); "The Kiss" Serenade (Micheli); ‘"‘Rustle of Spring’ (Sinding); "Edward German" Selection (German); "Snappy Weather," ‘Vanilla Blossoms" (Shitkret); "H.M.S. Pinafore" Selection (Sullivan); "The Canary" (Poltakin). 6.45 6.55 7. 0 7.15 7.30 7.45 8.1 8.31 8.57 915 9.25 11. 0 11.30 Summary of the day’s play in the cricket match Dominion-and district weather reports Local news service **Britain Speaks" 7.2810 7.30 Time signals Reserved EVENING PROGRAMME: The Four Kings of Rhythm (A studio presentation) "A Marriage Has Been Disarranged": A comedy presented by the NBS Rainbow Melody, with the Swingtime Harmonists and Noel Habgood (saxophone) (A studio presentation) , Dominion and district weather reports and station notices NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary Special radio presentation of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera "THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD" | NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN

CAN A WELLINGTON 840kc. 357m. | 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea table 6. 0 Musical menu 7.0 After dinner music 8. 0 Chamber music hour, featuring at 8.28, Budapest String Quartet, playing "Quartet in B Flat, Op. 67" (Brahms) 9. 0 "Three Magic Words" (an Irish fantasy) 9.13 "The Tune Detective" 9.25 The best of the latest 10. O Light and bright 10.80 Close down QVOWELLINGTON Op.m. Premiere 0 "A Gentleman Rider" 0 "The Four Kings of Rhythm" 2YD Sports Club, featuring Australia'v. England Cricket Test at the Oval, 1882 8.20 The 2YD Singers 8.40 ‘Dad and Dave" 8.5 Console-ation 9. & Stories by Edgar Allan Poe 9.30 Youth must have its Swing 10. 0 Close down ON Malote wom 7. Op.m. » Recorded items 7.16 Sports talk and review 8. 0 Music, mirth and melody 8.30 Relay of community singing 9.30 Latest dance and other recordings 10. 0 Weather and station notices Close down 2 NAPIER 750 kc. 395 m. 7. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 11. O Light music 12, 0-2,0 p.m. Lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. O Light music 5.30 For the children: "Birth of the British Nation" 5.45 Light music 6. 0 ‘Homestead on the Rise" 6.15 pcg FROM LONDON and topicat a 6.45 Weather forecast. "Dad and Dave " 7. O After dinner music 7.30 Band programme 8. QO Leon Goossens (oboe). with Lener String Quartet, "Quartet in F Major" (Mozart) 4 Elsie Suddaby (soprano). 8 Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), ‘"Sonata in E Flat Major" (Beethoven) 6 Dino Borgioli (tenor) The Adolf Busch Chamber ‘Players, "Serenade in D Major" (Mozart) Essie Ackland (contralto) NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC news commentary Light music Close down 2 y IN] 920k¢. 327m. 7. Op.m. Light popular music 8.0 "Down Harlem Way": The Negroes entertain & "The Moonstone "* 9. 9.30 Dance music 10. 0 Close down 3 S29 Ra oe 7 °

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a CHRISTCHURCH 720k ¢c. 416m. ehabah ababab ab NN NA meooress B (eprox.) Breakfast session NEWS FROM LONDON Morning melodies Classical programme Devotional Service Hall of Fame "Just Welcomes," by Major F.: H. Lampen Light orchestral session Popular tunes Lunch music (1.15 p.m, NEWS FROM LONDON) Band programme Some comedy ou oo ooo o

i 2.45 Piano rhythm 3.0 Classical programme 4. 0 Frost and special weather forecast 4. 6 The ladies entertain 4.30 Sports results Music from the films B. O Children’s session: (‘Holiday Session’’) 5.45. Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Padilla Medley’; ‘Rigoletto’ Selection (Verdi); "Hora Staccato" (Matthey); "Bird Songs at Eventide’ (Wood); ‘"‘Castanets" (Schutze); "Only a Rose’ (Friml); "The Swan" (Saint-Saens); * Troubadour " (trad.); ‘"‘Pepita’ (Bourdon); "Two for Tonight" (Revel): "The Sleeping Beauty's Wedding Day’’ (Rhode); "Inverness Gathering" (arr. Whyte); "Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 6 (Liszt); "The Golden Musical Box’ (Krome); "Daddy Long Legs’ (Wright); "Curtain Up’ (Wood). 6.56 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Barnabas von Geczy and his Orchestra, "Monika" Tango .... Kotscher 7.33 "The Adventures of Marco Polo" 7.46 Debroy Somers Band with male quartet, "Savoy Soldiers’ Songs" 7.54 "The Mystery of Darrington Hall" — 8.7 FROM THE STUDIO: Irene Macdonald (contralto), "Chantons les Amours de FORT". Lo stecccccccsescess WW OCKOFIIN "Un Peu d’Amour" .... Silesu. "L’Anneau d’Argent" Chaminade "Philis Plus Avare Que Tendre" .............. Weekerlin "Parlez-Moi d’Amour" Lenoir

8.20 8.27 8.54 8.57 9. 0 9.15 11. 0 11.30 Louis Levy and his Orchestra, "Goldwyn Follies" Gershwin "Those We Love": A _ story of people like us, the Marshalls Barnabas von Geczy and his Orchestra, "Cara Magi a nicionis Zalden Dominion and district weather reports and station notices NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary DANCE MUSIC NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN

SIVA CHRISTCHURCH 1200kc. 250m. 5. Op.m. Recordings 6. 0 ‘‘ Music for Everyman" 7. O After dinner music 8.0 The bands play 8.30 Musical comedy moments 9. 0 Featuring Bert Hirsch’s Novelty Osechestra, and Walter Preston (baritone) 9.30 ‘‘The Queen’s Necklace " 9.43 Ballad time 10. O Merry moments 10.30 Close down B72 GREYMOUTH 940k c. 319m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 9.5 Morning music 10. O Weather report 10.10-10.30 Devotional Service 12. O Lunch music 1.145 p.m. NEWS FROM LONDON 3. 0 Afternoon programme Classical music . Recital Dance tunes Weather report. Variety "David and Dawn" Dinner music 2 ag FROM LONDON and topical ta "Addington stock market report Weather report and station notices Evening programme Melodies of the South Seas "The Buccaneers " Celebrated pianists Fred Hartley and his Quintet "The Masked Masqueraders " Fred and Ginger NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC news commentary Do you remember these? Close dowP 20 = & aooonos RSo58 i oo a off . a COO OCHMOMONNNOD Hoagtapaw = : on

a i 790 k ¢. 380 m. 6. Oam. 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 10.15 Devotional Service 10.50 "Just Some More Good-Byes," by Major F. H. Lampen 41. O Potpourri: Serenades 12. 0 And at intervals, running commentaries on the racing at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s Meeting (relay from Wingatui) Luneh music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 4. 0 Weather report (including for aviators) 2.0 Syncopation; Singers and strings; Musical comedy 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 6. 0 Children’s session: (Mouth organ) band and Mr. Stampman) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Strike Up the Band" (Gershwin); "Student Prince Waltz’ (Romberg); ‘"Im- | provisation" (Fraentzschel); "Tango Notturno" (Borgmann); "‘Siciltiana’’ (Apollonio); "Morning Paper’ (Strauss); "Dancing Doll’ (Poldini); "Maruschka"’ | (Leur); "Nursery Rhymes"’; "Piano Memories"; ‘‘First Love’ (Lehar); "Entry of the Boyards"’ (Halvorsen); "La Habanera’ (Bruhne); "Song of Paradise" (King); "Castles in the Moon’ (Lincke); "Around the Danube" (Charrosin). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Dame Ethel Smythe and the British Symphony Orchestra, "The Wreckers" Overture Smythe 7.40 Thomas L. Thomas (baritone), "To Lo Sais" ........... Torelli "BOIS OBIS s.00h.c-odecenseseee Lully 7.46 Walter Gieseking (piano), "Wedding Day at _ Troldhaugen" "To the Spring" "Butterfly"... seaceee GLieg 7.64 Eugene Goossens and the London Symphony Orchestra, "Coppelia Ballet" .../Delibes 8. 0 "Good-bye, Mr. Chips’: A radio adaptation of the novel by James Hilton (Adapted and produced by the NBS) 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 Antal Dorati and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Ballet Suite: Jeux d’Enfants" Bizet 9.41 Dora Labbette (soprano), "Should He Upbraid" Bishop "My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair" Haydn 9.48 Yelli d’Aranyi (violin), "Tango" ...isccocesesrreeee Albeniz "Jota" cen pir Sai = Po teed de Falla

9.54 10. 0 11. 0 11.30 Selmar Meyrowitz and the Paris Symphony Orchestra, "Bouree Fantasque" Chabrier VARIETY, introducing "Forty Minutes of Musical Comedy in Song and Story" NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN aly DUNEDIN 140k¢e. 263m. 5. Op.m. ‘Tunes for the teatable 6. 0 7. 0 8. 0 8.35 8.45 9. 0 10. 0 Melody and song After dinner music * Piccadilly’: "The Spider Web" Time for a tune ‘His Last Plunge" Hits, humour and harmony, featuring at 9.30, "*Rhythm All the Time" In order of appearance: Adolf Wolff (organ), Carlo Buti (tenor), Hillingdon Orchestra aN 2 7. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 8.45-9 11.0 ree session .0 NEWS FROM LONDON Recordings 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (1.15, NEWS 5. 0 5.15 6. 0 6.15 6.45 7. 0 7.15 FROM LONDON) Children’s session Dance music for everybody "Dad and Dave’ NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk ""Mittens’"’ Boxing Day sports results Cole Porter presents Let’s all have. a jolly good time "Scott of Scotland Yard’ Musical comedy meanderings Weather reports and station notices NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary Special Holiday Dance Programme, introducing the past year’s screen successes Close down + d

These programmes are correct as Bedi i press. Any last-minute be announced over the air. All mmes in this issue are copyright to The Listener, and may not be reprinted without permission.

REPRESENTATIVE CRICKET Progress reports on play in the representative cricket match Wellington v. Auckland will be broadcast by 2YA throughout the day on Wednesday, December 25, on Thursday, December 26, and Saturday, December 28, with summaries of the play at 6.45 p.m. each evening