"FOR MY LADY"
NBS Sessions For Everywoman
his wireless set a "fount of the fabled music of the spheres." The average New Zealand woman listener would never dream of using any such highflown phrase, but experience teaches us that there are no keener appreciators of radio than women. There are times when even the most hardened radio critics (and aren’t we all radio critics?) pause in their faultfinding and acknowledge that things might be very much worse. With all the grumblings and the growlings there js a way of getting the best out of wireless programmes-if only we have the good sense to use them in the right way. The wise listener is the one who knows what to listen to-and for women that means A MODERN poet once called
a new series of week-day morning programmes commencing at 1YA, 2YA;3YA and 4YA on Monday next, February 3. The series has a title of three simple words that can be memorised in a mo-ment-"For My Lady"; and for my lady the programmes have been planned and executed. In the main they are designed to present the stories and art of hundreds of different musical and other artistic personalities. The sub-headings or group titles of a few of the features will give women listeners some idea of the wide range of interests to be covered in the first few months. Here they are: Famous Pianists, Queens of Song, Makers of Melody, World’s Great Artists, Tenors and the Girls. They Sing About, Famous Violinists, Popular Comedians, Maori Music, Popular Instrumental Ensembles, Musical Miniatures, Popular Cinema Organists, Lovers’ Lilts from the Operas, Famous Choirs, Let’s Gossip to Music, Popular Baritones and Basses, Vocal Ensembles. In addition at all four stations on two mornings in the week chapters of the following serials will be presented in sequence in the "For My Lady" sessions -‘Your Cavalier," "Dombey and Son," "Martin’s Corner," "Great Expectations," "Ernest Maltravers," and "Oliver Twist." Lovers of Dickens all know that Oliver Twist asked for more. In anticipation of
hp all a similar demand from women listeners, the "NBS has in. preparation numerous further series of "For My Lady" sessions. The best way to enjoy the new sessions is to watch the columns of The Listener and plan morning programme listening from 1LYA, 2¥A, 3YA and 4YA.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 44
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385"FOR MY LADY" New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 44
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