WEDNESDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 83, 24 January 1941, Page 30

WEDNESDAY

NATIONAL

JANUARY 29

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 9.0 Morning melodies 10. 0 Classical programme 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Hall of Fame 411. 0 Talk to women by " Margaret" 11.10 Light orchestral session 11.30 Popular tunes 12.0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 2.0 Melody and rhythm 2.30 Musical comedy 3. 0 Classical programme 4. 0 Rhythmic revels 4.30 Sports reeults Favourites old and new 6. O Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "La Finta Giardiniera"’ Overture (Mozart); "The Knave of Diamonds’ (Steele); "Strolling Along the Danube" (Joost); "Andantino"’ (Lemare); "Mardi Gras"’ (Grofe); "Spanish Gipsy Dance" (Marquina); "Escapada" (Phillips); "‘Melody Masters" (Friml); "Vibraphone Waltz" (Lohr); a Gipsy Camp Fire’ (Trad.); ‘"‘Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven’ (Kreisler); "Bolero" (Ravel); "Summer Days’ Suite (Coates); Panny All is Green and Blossoming’; a Song" (Mendelssohn); n~4 the Lilac Bush" (Krome). 7.0 Local news service 7.20 Addington Stock Market report 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Pau Casals (’cellist) with George Szell and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, "Concerto in B Minor" Op. ' 104 Dvorak 8. 7 READINGS by O. L. Sim- mance: "Hereward the Wake," by Charles Kingsley 8.27 The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, "Third Suite of Ancient Airs and Dances for Lute" Respighi 8.46 Recital by Beniamino Gigli (tenor), "" Occhi di Fata" ........ Denza "T’ultima Canzone" .... Tosti "QO del mio dolce ardor" Gluck Born in 1890 at Recanati in Italy, Gigli, although not intended for a musical career, sang in the churches of his native town at an early age. When seventeen years old he applied for a place in the ‘" Schola Cantorum" of the famous Sistine Chapel of St. Peter’s, Rome, then under the direction of Maestro Pérosi. Gigli eventually entered the celebrated Conservatoire of St, Cecelia to complete his musical education. He first attracted public attention by winning first prize in a competition at Parma, which led to his operatic debut in 1914. 8.57 Station notices 9.0 NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC news commentary 9.25 Evening Prayer: The Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Wellington 9.30 The London Philharmonic Orchestra, %: 3 bay ae No. om. E Flat " Gcathowest

10.25 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN S\/ CHRISTCHURCH 1200 kc. 250m. 5. Op.m. Recordings 6.0 "Music for everyman" 7.0. After-dinner music 8.0 "Leaves from the Diary of a Film Fan." 8.30 Light music 9. 0 Dance hits 10. 0-10.25 Signal preparation for Air Force 10.30 Close down S74 940k.c. 319m. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON 739 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON %. 0 Morning music 10, 0-10.25 Devotional service 12. 0 Lunch music ote heart NEWS FROM LONDON 3. Afternoon programme Classical music 4.0 Dance tunes and popular songs 4.30 Variety 5. O Children’s session (Norma) 6.30 ‘Carson Robison and his Pioneers" 5.45 Dinner music 6. O "The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s" 616 NEWS FROM LONDON and ‘topical talk 6.43 Fifteen minutes of brightness 6.57 Station notices 7.0 Evening programme 7A0 "The Woman in Black" 7.24 It’s out of the bag! 8. 0 or Variety A BBC. cari on

8.30 "Mittens" 8.43 Golden voices of the stars 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC news commentary 9.25 Evening Prayer: The Rt, Rev, the Bishop of Wellington 9.30 Musical all-sorts 10. Q Close down AY / 790 k.c. 380 m.:; 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 10.15 Devotional Service 10.50 Talk to women by " Margaret " 11. 0 Talk by Miss D. McStay: " Cooking Electricity " 11.15 Musical silhouettes; Tunes of the times 12.0 Lunch music (1.15p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 2.0 Rambling in rhythm; Duos, trios eng quartets; At the London Palium 3.30 Sports results Classical music 4.30 Cafe music 4.45 Sports results 6. 0 Children’s session (Big Brother Bill and the Travelman) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "The Leek" Selection ob peongaest ""Andalousian Dance" (Winkler); azelles"™ (Kuster); Ramee" (tees) Polka (Strauss); ‘Life tn Hungary" Se "A Garland of ecw eel i et OE let Music (Schubert); "El Relicario" es ae "Charm. of the ’ Valse" (arr, Deep in a Dream" (Heusen); Dreaming of the Hungarian Steppes" (Bruhnej; "‘Leda Valse" (Tongsca),

7. 0 Local news. service 7.16 Recorded talk by Erio Ramsden, of Sydney: ‘* Canoe Tracks to Tahiti " 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: The New Mayfair Orchestra, "Love Tales" ........ arr. Hall 7.40 "The Bold Bad Buccaneers" in humour and harmony 7.53 "The Hunchback of Ben Ali" 8. 6 The Cedric Sharpe Sextet, *" Adieu," " Serenade "....Elgar 8.12 Soloist and chorus, "Miniature Musical Comedies" Simpson "The Balcony Girl" 8.20 Stanley Holloway (humour), "The Rude Sailor" " Albert Evacuated ",.Conriche 8.25 Reginald Foort (organ), "The King Steps Out" Kreisler 8.31 "The Fourth Form at St, Percy’s" 8.43 "Live, Love and Laugh": A drama set to music, with Dobrinski’s Lyric Ensemble 8.57 Station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.156 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Evening Prayer: The Rt. Rev, the Bishop of Wellington 9.33 "The Life of Cleopatra" 10. 0 Mitchell Ayres and his Fashions in Music 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation musis 11.30 CLOSE DOWN ANY 1140 k.c. 263 m. 5. Op.m, Tunes for the tea table 6.0 Melody and song 7.0 After dinner music 8. 0 Orchestral masterpieces, featuring at 8.0, Philadelphia Orchestra, playing "Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 4125" ¢"Choral’’), (Beethoven) 9.10 At the opera 10. O The show goes on 10.30 Close down ; { AN, 77 INVERCARGILL 680kc. 441m. 7. 0am. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45-9.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 41. O Recordings 412. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) Children’s session: "Round the World with Father Time" Light opera and musical comedy Tunes of the day " Personal Column " NEWS FROM LONDON and topicat talk " Birth of the British Nation" After dinner music "Early Southland’: A series of weekly talks by Rosaline Redwood, "The First Settlement at Dusky Sound" 7.45 These were hits ;' 3 "Out of the Silence" 8.26 Troubadours'§ Male uartet and Charles ‘Williams (violinist) 8.45 "Here’s a Queer Thing" 8.57 Station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s . hews 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Evening Prayer: Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Wellington 9.30 Interlude 9.33 Radio Cabaret 10, 0 Close down i ° MND DOAN _~ = B08