SATURDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 38

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IW AUCKLAND 650 k ¢. 462 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDCN 7.30 (approx.) District weather report, followed by breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 9.0 ‘"Fntertainers All" 10. 0 Devotional Service 10.16 ‘In Holiday Mood" 11.0 "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists’: ‘‘George Eliot," by Margaret Johnston 911.16 ‘‘Domestic Harmony" 12. O Lunch music 4. 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 B. 0 Children’s session (‘* Cinderella ") 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Le. Carnival Romain" Overture (Berlioz); "Minuet" (Mozart); "My Heart's Melody" (Gellin); "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Kern); "Amoureuse" (Berger); "A Little Dance" (Brau); "Music of the Spheres" (Strauss); "Gipsy Eyes" (Trad.); "The King Steps Out" Medley (Kreisler); "Deep River" (Trad.); "Bal Masque" (Fletcher); "Molly on the Shore" (Grainger); "‘Two Jolly Fellows" (Conti); "Policeman's Holiday" (Ewing). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7.0 ‘ocal news service 7.15 Topical Talk from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: The Buccaneers Male Voice Octet, "The Cossacks " Van Norman 7.33 Studio recital by Betty Hall (piano), "Soaring" ........... Schumann "The Little Shepherd" Debussy "Nocturne in D Flat" Rowley "Little White Donkey" 7.45 TALK by Noel Coward 8. 0 The Dreamers Trio, "Come to the Sea" Old Italian Melody 8. 4 Richard Liebert (organ), "To Spring" ............ Gounod "Solveig’s Song" ........ Grieg "The Flatterer" . Chaminade 8.10 Studio recital by Gwen Salmon (soprano), "Celestial Weaver," "Spring" — Bantock "Butterfly Wings," ‘"Enchanted Forest" .... Phillips

8.22 Rosario Bourdon Symphony Orchestra, "Open Thy Window" . Bizet "The Hornet" ccuwe rad. 8.26 Studio recital by George Greenaway (baritone), "Sea Fever" ......0.... Ireland " Cargoes " Coningsby-Clarke "Thanks be to God" Dickson "When the Sergeant-Major’s on Parade" ........ Longstaffe 8.38 London Philharmonic Orchestra, * Rossiniana " Selection Respighi Here is one of those arrangements of tunes by his fellow countryman Rossini, in which the late Ottorino Respighi excelled. He won great praise for his skilful arrangement of another set of pieces by Rossini of which the score of the Diaghiley ballet "‘La Boutique Fantasque" was made. Respighi studied under RimskykKorsakov and Mux Bruch and was one of the most prominent Italian composers up to his death in 1936, 8.54 The Mastersingers Chorus, "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" ............ Foster 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 MODERN DANCE MUSIC 10. O Radio despatch from the New oie Forces in the Middle ast 10. 5 Sports summary 10.15 Dance programme 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN IVC meetin 7. 0 After dinner music 8.0 "Filmiand Memories": George Formby {[n songs from "Gunner George" 8.12 Charlie Kunz, Gracie Fields and Billy Cotton’s Band 8.30 "The Dark Horse" 8.45 Radio romps, with "The Sentimental Bioke" at 9.34 10.30 Close down 12 AUCKLAND 1250ke. 240m, 1. Op.m. Band selections, vocal gems, pens orchestral and popular selecons 2.40 Piano, piano-accordion and Hawalian music 3.40 Light orchestral and popular medieys, organ selections and ballads S. O Light orchestral and popular selections 7. 0 Sports results and comments: Bill Hendry 7.30 Orchestral programme 8. 0 Dance session 11. Q@ Close down

QV WELLINGTON 570k c. 526 m. 6. Oam. Station on the air for NEWS 6,50 y & ° 7.30 (approx.) District weather report 8.45 9. 0 10, 0 10.10 10.25 10.45 11. 0 12. 0 1.0 2. 0 "Autumn" (Chaminade); "Kunz Revivals," No. 8; Song, Violetta’’ (Lukesch); "Butterflies in the Rain" (Myers); "A Bouquet of Flowers"; "*Neath Sunny Skies’ Medley; "Gipsy Wine" 6.55 7. 0 7.15 7.30 7.45 8.44 8.57 9. 0 9.15 9.25 10. 0 10.15 11. 0 11.30 FROM LONDON Weather report for aviators NEWS FROM LONDON Breakfast session NEWS FROM LONDON Morning variety Weather report for aviators Devotional Service Popular melodies 10.28 t0 10.30 Time signals "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists ’: "Somerville and Ross," by Margaret Johnston Something for everybody Lunch music (1.15p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) Weather report for aviators and week-end forecast Saturday matinee 3.28103.30 Time signals 4.0 Sports results Children’s session Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "The Veleta" (Morris); "Hear My (Ritter), Dominion and district weather reports Local news service "Britain Speaks " 7.28107.30 Time signals Reserved EVENING PROGRAMME: TALK by Noel Coward "Krazy Kapers": Another instalment of this hilarious variety show Light Symphony Orchestra, " Offenbach Can Can" Heddle Nash (English tenor) in a studio presentation of "Gems from Musical Comedy" The Bijou Quartet present from the studio: "Cameo of North American Songs" " Dominion and district weather reports and station notices NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news | BBC news commentary DANCE PROGRAMME Radio despatch from New — Forces in the Middle ast 10. 5 Sports summary Dance programme NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN

2V/ WELLINGTON 840k¢, 357m, Op.m. Tunes for the tea-table O Musical menu 0 After dinner music QO Classicana: A programme of popu. lar classics 10. O Variety parade 10.30 Close down 2QW/ WELLINGTON 990k¢. 303m. 7. Op.m. "You Asked for it" session: From listeners to listeners 10. 0 Close down OW 810ke. 370m. 6.30 p.m. Children’s session 7.30 Sports results and reviews 8. Music, mirth and melody Weather report and station notices Recordings Close down 2) NAPIER — 750 ke. 395m. 7. OQam. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 11. 0 Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. O Light music 5.30 For the children: "Paradise Plumes and Head-Hunters" 65.45 Light music 6. 0 "Carson Robison and his Pioneers" 6.15 coo FROM LONDON and Topical a 6.45 Weather: forecast. Senior Cricket Results 7.0 After dinner music 7.15 Topical War Talks from the BBG 7.30 ‘The Circle of Shiva’ 7.45 Talk by Noel Coward 8. 0 Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, "Gipsy Baron Overture’ (Strauss) 8. 9 John Charles Thomas (baritone) 8.21 Symphony Orchestra, "Brahms’ Waltzes" 8.30 The Don Cossacks Choir, "The . Red. Sarafan,’ ‘March Prince Cleg’ (arr. Jaroff) 8.38 Lauri Kennedy (’cello), "Hungarian Rhapsody" (Popper), ‘Cradle Song"’ (Brahms), ‘Songs My Mother Taught Me" (Dvorak) 8.47 John McCormack (tenor) 8.49 Artur Schnabel and Karl Ulrich Schnabel (piano), "March in G@ Minor" (Schubert) 8.53 Grand Symphony’ Orchestra of Paris, "‘Rhapsodie Mauresque" (Saint-Saens) 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 "Thrills!" 9.40 Light music 10. 0 Radio Despatch from the N.Z Forces in the Middle East 10. 5 Close down 2 Y IN 920k.c. 327m. 7. Op.m. " Listeners’ Own Session" 8. 0 Viennese Waltz Orchestra, "Happy Vienna" 8.10 "Scott of Scotland Yard" 8.50 Light recitals 9.15 Dance music 9.30 Swing sessior 10. 0 Close down © onoo 10,

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SV CHRISTCHURCH 720k ¢. 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 410.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Hall of Fame 41. 0 "The Morning Spell’: "Manners, Good and Bad," by Mrs. Mary Scott 41.10 Light orchestral session 41.30 Popular tunes 42.0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m, NEWS FROM LONDON) 2. 0 Musical snapshots 2.30 Happy Memories 8.0 Radio allsorts 4. 0 Frost and special weather forecast 4. 6& Bands and Dasses 4.30 Sports. results Rhythm and melody 6. O Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Slavonic Dance, No, 2’ (Dvorak); ‘Cradle Song" (Mozart); ‘‘Moonlight on the Danube" (Gay); "The Student Prince’ Serenade (homberg); "Pussta’’ (Trad.); ‘""Melodious ntermezzo"’ (Kotscher); " Estrettita " (Ponce); "Serenade" (Toselli); "A Soldier's Life is Grand" (Olivieri); ‘One Bright Hit After the Other’ (Richartz); "The Old ey (Trad.); "Life Begins With Love" (Tobias); "Marigold" (Mayerl); ‘‘Cloches de Corneville" Waltz "Sanctuary of the Heart" (Ketelbey); "Hungarian Medley" (arr. Prout); ‘Last Rose of Summer" (Moore). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 Topical War Talks from the BBC 730 EVENING PROGRAMME: Debroy Somers Band, "Lionel Monckton Memories" 7.36 Alec Templeton (pianist), "Improvisation on Five Varied Melodies" | "The Lost Chord" | arr. Templeton "The Music Goes ’Round and PRP" « sriicvscossenivensss Hodgson 745 TALK by Noel Coward 8. 0 "Exploits of the Black Moth": "Trouble in Limehouse" 8.26 Studio recital by Thomas E. West (tenor), Pe Be AY" ° csvicicssrsees PTICTO | "Children of Men" . Russell PRON Cs cicseshabssakacesntb Rasbach "Come Back to Sorrento" Curtis "Too Late To-morrow" Langenburg 8.38 Some recent releases: Rudy Vallee (vocal), "Sing for Your Supper" ‘ a Rudy Vallee and Frances Langford, | "This Can’t Be Love" .... Hart: 8.43 Dick McIntire and his Harmony Hawaiians, "Hula Lola-Hula" ........ Auld "My Hawaiian Souvenir" Carlson 8.49 Bing Crosby (vocal), "April Played the Fiddle" ; "I Haven’t Time to be a Millionaire" "Meet the Sun Half foe ke

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 Victor Young and his Orchestra, with Judy Garland, featuring excerpts from "The Wizard of Oz" 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 music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN SIVA CHRISTCHURCH 1200k¢. 250m. 5. Op.m. Recordings 6. 0 ‘Music for Everyman" 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 Symphonic programme, featuring at 8.11, The Symphony Orchestra playing "Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. " (Brahms) ; and at 9.30, Prof. Georg Kulen--kamp (violin) and the Philharmonic Orchestra playing ‘Concerto. in D Minor" (Schumann) 10. O Favourite entertainers 10.30 Close down GREYMOUTH SIAR, 940k ¢. 319m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 9. 6 Snappy programme 10, O Weather report 12. 0 Lunch music and commentary of trotting club’s meeting, from Victoria Park 1.15 p.m. NEWS FROM LONDON 2. 0 Variety 5. O Bright spot 6.165 "Joan of Arc" 5.30 Dinner music 6.0 ‘William the Conqueror" 6.15 phe FROM LONDON and Topical a 645 Weather report; sporting results 7. O Bright spot 7.16 Topical War Talks from the BBC 7.45 Talk by Noel Coward 8.0 "The Channings’" 8.12 Spotlight parade, 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Dance with Carroll Gibbons and Savoy Orpheans, Joe Loss and his Orchestra, AS Cotton and Band: interludes by Ink Spot 10. 0 Radio pteares from N.Z. Forces in Middle East 10. & Close down AN) DUNEDIN 790 kc. 380m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 6.50 Weather reports for aviators 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 10. © Weather report for aviators 10.10 Random ramblings ; 10.50 "Some Remarkable Women I! Have Met": By Mrs. Vivienne Newson

11. © Melodious memories; Novelty and humour 12. 0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 4.0 Weather report (including for aviators) 2. 0 Vaudeville Matinee; Bands, banjos and baritones 3.30 Sports results 3.45 Revels, recitals and rhythm; Music in a Cafe 4,45 Sports results 5. O Children’s session: ("‘How to Make" Club) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Procession of the Sirdar’ (IppolitovIvanov); "My Blonde Dream" (Doelle); ‘In Old Budapest" (Krish); "Charlie Kunz Medley of Strauss Waltzes’; "The Gay Fellow" (Trad.); ‘Sweethearts’ (Smith); ‘Indian Summer" (Lohr); "‘Merry Nigger’ (Squire); "Largo" (Handel); "Fair Rosemary"’ (Kreisler); "Russian Slumber Song" (Gretchaninoff); ‘"‘Almita’’ (Racho); "Sarba" (Trad.); "Blaze Away’’ (Holzmann); ‘Who Knows?" (Lesso); ‘‘Sharaban" (Trad.). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. @ Local News Service 7.15 Topical War Talks from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Louis Levy and his Gaumont British Symphony, "Head Over Heels" selection Revel 7.38 The International Singers, "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young ae "Japanese Sunset" .... Deppen 7.45 TALK by Noel Coward 8. 0 Harry Horlick and his Orchestra, Two Mexican Melodies 8. 7 Studio recital by Lex Macdonald (baritone), "The Vagabond" "Linden Lea" Vaughan Williams 8.13 Eric Coates and Symphony Orchestra, "Cinderella" A Fantasy Coates 8.25 Millicent Phillips (soprano), "Spring’s Awakening" Sanderson "Sweethearts" ,........... Herbert "The Wren" .....+00000+-. Benedict 8.34 The Hillingdon Orchestra, "Sailors’ Patrol" Charrosin "Rendezvous" Intermezzo Aletter 8.40 Lex Macdonald (baritone), "Shortenin’ Bread" .... Wolfe "Her Name is Mary" Ramsay 8.46 Bernhard Levitow’s Salon Orchestra, "Love’s Dream After the Ball" Czibulka "Veil Dance" ........ Goldmark "Aubade Printaniere" Lacmobe 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 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 music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN / DUNEDIN at ©) 1140k.c. 263m. 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea-table 6. 0 Melody and song 7. 0 After dinner music 7.45 ‘The Crimson Trail" 8. 0 Instrumental and vocal interlude 8.30 ‘The Mystery Ciub": " The Missing Colonel " 8. 0 Band programme, with humorous interludes 10. 0 "People in Pictures" 10.30 Close down . al Y 680kce. 441m. 7. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45-9.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 11. 0 Recordings 12, 0-2.0p.m. Lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. O Children’s session 5.15 Saturday Special of New Releases 6. 0 "Carson Robison and his Buckaroos"’ 6.15 Si yg FROM LONDON and Topical a 6.45 Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Orchestra 6.50 To-day’s sports results 7. 0 Accordiana ; 7.156 Topical War Talks from the BBC 7.30 Screen snapshots 7.45 Talk by Noel Coward 8. 0 Shall we dance?: An hour of modern dance music. Interludes by Hughie Diamond 8.57 Weather reports and station notices 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.156 BBC News Commentary 9.26 Late sporting 5 For the musical connoisseur 10. 0 Radio Despatch from the N.Z. Forces in the Middle East 10. & Close down These programmes are correct as we to press. Any last-minute alterations announced over the air, All es in this issue are copyright to The Listener, and may not be reprinted permission, without