SATURDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 91, 21 March 1941, Page 38

SATURDAY

NATIONAL

MARCH 29

i Yi : NY AUCKLAND ; 650 k c. 462 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 9 0 ‘Entertainers all" 10. O Devotional Service: Rev. J. Laird 10.20 "For My Lady": ‘"Lover’s lilts from the operas " 10.45 "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists: Peari Buck," by Margaret Johnston 41.0 ‘Domestic harmony " 12.0 Lunch music (12.15 p.m. and 1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 2.0 "Rhythm in relays" 3.30 Sports results 4.30 Sports results 6G. O Children’s session: (" Cinderella ’’) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical talk): Schubert Waltzes; ‘Dreaming Bells" (Krome); "Bubbling Over’ (Gibbons); "Py the Sleepy Lagoon" (Coates); "My Lucky Day" (Carste); Arie " Pur Dicesti’ (Lotti); "Down the Mali" March (Belton); "‘Vienna Maidens" (Ziehrer); ‘Marche Symphonique"’ (Savino); ‘Mississippi’ (Rodgers); "Danube Waves" (Ivanovici); "In a Persian Market" Ketelbey); "Dolores" (Waldteufel); ""Mooneams Dance" (Gibbons); ""Wine, Women and Song" (Strauss). 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 Topical talk from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Feodor Chaliapin with chorus and Balalaika Orchestra, "Merry Butterweek " Sieroff 7.36 Fritz Kreisler (violin), "The Maid with Flaxen Hair" " Boating " ..... piketiesshe Debussy 7.42 Studio recital by Ada Lynn (soprano), "Scenes That Are Brightest" Wallace "Bonnie Mary of Argyle" Nelson "T Love Thee" ............ Grieg "On Wings of Song" Mendelssohn 7.54 Andres Segovia (guitar), Tremolo Study ........ Tarrega 7.58 Leeds Festival Choir, Choral. Dance No. 17 from "Prince Igor"? ........ Borodin 8.10 Studio recital by Randolph Flood (tenor), "My Dreams" 4... Tosti "As I Sit Here" ........ Saunders . "When Shadows Gather" Marshall ‘Tll Sing Thee Songs of BLOB H? vcescssisnss>sesieseesetises AOLAY 8.22 Studio recital by Agnes . Shearsby (piano), "Seguidillas" ............... Albeniz "Automne" .......00+ Chaminade "Hungarian Impression " | Shearsby 8.34 Peter Dawson (bass-baritone) . "O Sing to Me an Irish Song" "Auld Songs of Hame" Geeh] 8.42 Queen’s Hall Orchestra, " Handel in the Strand " "Mock Morris" .... Grainger 8.50 e Kentucky Minstrels, "The Holy City" ........ Adams 8.57 Station notices ‘9. 0 NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 915 BBC news commentary

9.25 New Mayfair Orchestra, "White Horse Inn" selection Stolz 9.33 Frank Luther, Zora Layman and the Century Quartet, "Snow White and the Seven Diwerts ka wee Churchill 9.514 The Minstrel Singers with Banjo Band, "Minstrel Memories" 10. 0 Sports results 10.10 DANCE MUSIC 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN | Y 880kc¢. 341m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. O After dinner musie 7.45 . "Billy Bunter of Greyfriars" 8. 0 Week-end Joy-Wheel, with " The Dark Horse" at 8.30, and at 9.30, "Pilmland Memories": Songs from "Heart’s Desire,".. by Richard Taube: 10.30 Close down |Z AUCKLAND 1250k.c. 240m. 1. Op.m. Band music, vocal gems, light orchestral items, piano medleys, and light vocal recordings 2.40 Organ, piano-accordion, light popu-| lar and orchestral selections 4.30 Popular medleys, light vocal and orchestral music 5.30-6.0 Light popular and miscellaneous | items 7. O Sports results 30 Orchestral interlude 0 Dance session O Signal preparation for the Alr Force .25 Dance (continued) O Close down 2 y 570 kc. 526m. , In the event of Parliament being — broadcast, this yoegnas will be transmitted by 2 Usual hours of Parliament: 10.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2.30 to 5.30 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDON

7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 8. 0 Morning variety /410.10 Devotional Service 10.26 Popular melodies 10.28 1010.30 Time signals | 10.40 For My Lady: "Great Expectations" 411.0 "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists ’: "Some Writers of De-« tective Fiction: Dorothy Sayers and Others," by Margaret Johnston 41.15 Something for everybody 42. O Lunch musie (12.15 p.m. and 1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) Running commentaries on the Wellington Trotting Club’s Meeting (relayed from Ifutt , Park) (Race commentaries will be broadcast through 2YC during the News from London) 2. 0 Saturday matinee 3.28 103.30 Time signals 4. 0 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and To ical Talk): "The Barber of Seville’ Overture (Rossini); "A Little Dance’ (Borschel); ‘‘The ABC March" (Foort); "Rainy Weather’ (Caros); ‘Grotesque’ (Kormann) ; "Fickle Fancy" (Strauss); "Love's Romance" (Sendry); "‘Chopin Melodies" "Entrance of the Little Fauns" "Mosquito Dance" (White); "Les Fleurs ‘Waltz" (Waldteufel); "Stay Close to Me" (Kreuder); "Shadows on the Wall" (Schutze); "By the Fireside’ (Hippmann). 7. 0 Official news 7.15 "Britain Speaks " 7.2810 7.30 Time signals 7.45 EVENING PROGRAMME: Shall We Waltz? Romantic music by Harry Horlick’s Orchestra 8.1 "Krazy Kapers": A further instalment in this hilarious variety show 8.28 Saturday night variety, featuring, Anne Luciano (soprano) Dan Foley (Irish tenor) Alan Shand (accordion) ’Arry and Lizzie Bertie the Babbler and John Parkin and Henry Rudolph at two pianos (a Studio presentation) 8.58 Station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC news commentary 9.25 DANE PROGRAMME 10. Sports results 10.10 of dance pro- | gramme 11. 0 FROM LONDON. followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN 2Q\ 84Qkc¢e. 357m. 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea table 6. 0 Musical menu 7. O. After dinner music .8. 0 Classicana: chem farres of light classics 10. 0 Close down . QV) Foca Sam" 7, Op.m. "You asked for it" session: From listeners to listeners 10. 0 Close down W713} NEW PLYMOUTH 810k.c. 370m. 6.30 p.m, Children’s session 7.30 Sports results and reviews 8. 0 Music, mirth and melody

9. 0 9.2 10. 0 Station notices Recordings Close down QV inl ie Li is m. 7. Oam., NEWS!FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45-9.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 11. 0 Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (12.15 and 1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) Dance music in strict tempo For the children: " The Adventures of Marco Polo" The International Novelty Orchestra Carson Robison and his Pioneers -* FROM LONDON and topical ta Senior cricket results After dinner music Topical war talk from the BBC 4 ¥ Nuisance" (NBS producon The London Philharmenie Orchestra, " Carnaval Romain" Overture (Berlioz) Webster Booth (tenor) Artur Schnabel .and Karl Ulrich Schnabel (piano), ‘Three Military Marches" (Schubert) Florence Austral (soprano) Alexandre Glazounov and Symphony Orchestra, ‘The Seasons Ballet" (excerpts) (Glazounoy) Nelson Eddy (baritone) The London Philharmonic Orchegtra, "Danse Bohemienne" (Bizet) NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news RBC news commentary " Thrills Medley from the shows Close down AYN sme sam, 7. Op.m. ‘Listeners’ own" session 8. 0 The Seville Theatre Orchestra, with Adele Dixon, Over She Goes" (Mayerl) "Scott of Scotland Yard" Light recitals Dance music Swing session Close down

SATURDAY

TIONAL

MARCH 29

SV, CHRISTCHURCH 720 k 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 410.0 "For My Lady": The world‘s great artists, Richard Crooks, popular American tenor 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Some rhythm 11,0 "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists: Mrs. Gaskell," by Margaret Johnston 41.10 Light orchestral session 91.30 Popular tunes 42. 0 Lunch music (12.15 p.m. and 1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 2. 0 Bright music 2.30 Happy memories O Tunes everyone knows O Bands and basses 4.30 Sports results Rhythm and melody 6. O Children’s session (‘ Mrs. Dalton’s Mandolins "’) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Polka" (Smetana); "Turkish March" (Mozart); "Chinese Wedain Procession" (Hosmer); "The Great Waltz’" (Strauss); ‘Ay-Ay-Ay" (Freire); "Memory" (Wright); "South of the Alps" Suite (Fischer); *‘Kol Nidrei" (trad); "Spanish Serenade"’ Bizet); "Compositions of Edvard Grieg’; ‘Ramona" (Wayne); "I Dream Too Much’’; *"Columbine’s Rendezvous"’ (Heykens); "Dance of the Comedians" (Smetana); Gladioles"’ (Lohr), : 7. 0 Local news service 7.16 Topical War Talks from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Bessie Pollard String Ensemble: "April’s Lady" ........ Ancliffe : RMU ee eis Elgar "Intermezzo" ............ Bridge 740 "The Exploits of the Black Moth: The Northumberland Tramp" 8.5 Bessie Pollard String Ensemble, "Fantasia on English Traditional Country Dance Tunes " arr. Pollard Steamboat, Greensleeves, Jenny Pluck Pears, Mr. Beveridge’s Maggot. Goddesses 8.12 "Erin-Go-Bragh," featuring Morton Downey, "My Wild Irish Rose" Oleott "When Irish Eyes are SmilLAG" sisedaeesas onsoneteiiitactaassect BNE "Where the River Shannon BOWE." | iitieawastilnr eet "The Rose of Tralee "..Glover 8.24 Bessie Pollard String Ensemble, "Indian Summer ".... Herbert "Valse Gentile" ........ Nevin 8.30 Song hits of the Twentieth Century: "Tell Me Pretty Maiden" Stuart "Tn the Shade of the Sheltering Palm" ...........000... Stuart "Just Because She Made Them Goo Goo Eyes"..Canno " Coon Coon Coon "....Jefferson "Lam’ Lam’ Lam’".,...Abbott 8.39 Lukewela’s Royal Hawaiians

8.50 8.58 9. 0 9.15 9.25 10.15 11. 0 11.30 New Mayfair Orchestra, "Music in the Air" Station notices NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary Variety programme, featuring instrumental solos with William Wirges Orchestra, Arthur Askey, the Mills Brothers and the Allen Roth Orchestra 10. 0 Sports results DANCE MUSIC NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN SIVA CHRISTCHURCH 1200k¢. 250m. 5. Op.m. Recordings | -@& 9 7. 0 8. 0 "Music for Everyman" After dinner music Symphonic programme, featuring the London Symphony Orchestra, playing Symphony (Walton); and at 9.35, Yehudi Menuhin (violinist), and the London oe rig 4 Orchestra, playing Concerto No. in G Minor, Op. 26 (Bruch) 10. 0-10.25 Signal preparation. for Air 10.30 Force Close down SAR tats ert 7. Oa.m. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 8.45 Breakfast session NEWS FROM LONDON 9. Og 3: Snappy programme a = wa gqoogoo ay oa 9. 0 9.15 9.25 10. 0 Lunch music (12.15 p.m. and 1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) Variety Bright spot "Joan of Arc"? Dinner music "Personal Column" NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk Sporting results, station notices Louis Levy and Gaumont British Symphony Topical war talks from the BBC Tommy Handley and his Pals in "Let’s Join in the Chorus" Harry Horlick presents his Orchestra "David Copperfield" (episode 1) Spotlight Parade NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC news commentary Dance with Ambrose, Joe Loss and Billy Cotton and their Orchestras. Interludes by Nick Lucas Close down ANY DUNEDIN 790 k c. 380 m. ONDON NEWS FROM LONDO DON 7:30 (approx.) Breakfast session 5 NEWS FROM LONDON Random ramblings "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists: Harriet erg Stowe," by Margaret Johnst or y Lady": oo ernest Maltravers " Melodious memories; Novelty and humour Lunch music (12.15 p.m, and 4.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) Vaudeville matinee; Bands, banjos and baritones 3.30 Sports resulte

3.45 Revels, recital and rhythm; Cafe music 4.45 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session (‘How to Make" Club) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "The Chocolate Soldier Selection" (Straus); "Eternelle Ivresse’ (Ganne); "Serenade" (Moszkowshi);. "Lovelight in Thine Eyes’’; "Monkey Tricks" (Groitzch); "An Hour With You?" (Eisele); "My Treagure" (Becucci); "By the Tamarisk" (Coates); "Delicatesse’’ (Deltour); ‘‘Russian Fantasy" (arr. Bor); "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" (Kenbrovin); "Fairies in the Moon" (Ewing); ‘Melody Masters, Franz _Lehar’; "The Whistler and His Dog" (Pryor); "Blanca Flor’ (Mateo). 7.0 Local news service 7.15 Topical War Talks from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Light orchestras and ballads The Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, "The Bronze Horse Overture" Auber Auber’s opera ‘‘ The Bronze Horse" ‘sg a Chinese fairy opera, wherein Stella, the Grand Mogul’s daughter, too shy for earth, is translated to the paradisal groves of the planet Venus. There Prince Yang-Yang flies to her on the magic bronze horse, but those who visit Venus must not tell what happens to them, and the Prince joins other flyers (the Mandarin Tsing-Tsing and Yanko, the Chinese country boy, both of whom love Peki, the tea-house keeper’s daughter) as a wooden image before the agoda. Finally Peki makes the trip, keepng her own counsel, and disenchants the tattlers, and pagoda gongs chime for Yanko and herself, Stella and the Prince. 7.40 The Madison Singers, "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair" ............ Foster "A Night, a Maid, a Kiss" Buck "Eileen Aroon" 7.46 The New Light Symphony Orchestra, "London Suite" ........ Coates 7.58 Raie da Costa (piano), "No, No Nanette-Medley " Youmans "Rio Rita" .......00. Tierney 8.4 Albert Sandler and his Orchestra, "Play of Butterflies " Heykens "Speak to Me of Love" Lenoir "Play it Again" .... Brodsky 8.13 Studio recital by L. E. Dalley (tenor), "JT Hear You Calling Me" ) Marshall "Passing By" ....04.... Purcell y SIUBR. T sadasibewibienaccns MEOH 8.20 Debroy Somers Band, "This England" 8,28 Studio recital by Valda McCurdy (soprano), "April is a Lady "....Phillips "Love’s Valley" ........ Forster "The Enchanted Forest" Phillips 8.37 The Jacques String Players, "The Faery Queen — Three Dances " ........ssc00eerereeeee Purcell " Berenice Minuet" .... Handel 8.45 L. E. Dalley (tenor), "I Know of Two Bright Eyes" Clutsam "A Farewell" ............ Liddle 8.51 The Light Symphony Orchestra, "Wood Nymphs" ........ Wood "Homage March" ........ Wood |

8.58 Station notices 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 5 BBC News Commentary 5 DANCE MUSIC 10. 0 Sports results 10.10 Dance music 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN CIO) DUNEDIN — © 1140k¢, 263m 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea table 6. O Melody and song 7. O After dinner music 7.45 "The Crimson Trail’ 8. 0 Hits of yesterday and to-day 8.30 "The Mystery Club: The Antarctic Adventure" 9.0 Brass and military band programme : 10. O People in pictures 10.30 Close down al, Y 680k.c. 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 (12.15 and 1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. O Children’s. session 5.15 Saturday special 6. 0 Carson. Robison and his Buckaroos 6.15 nce FROM LONDON and Topical Talk 6.45 Alfredo Campoli and his Orchestra 6.48 To-day’s sports results 7. 0 Accordiana 7.15 Topical war talks from the BBC 780 Screen Snapshots 8. 0 Shall we dance? Interludes by Vera Lynn 8.57 Station notices 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Late sporting 9.30 For the musical connoisseur, introducing Elgar’s "Enigma Variations, Op. 36." played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra 10. 0 Close down

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