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Yr; PETER the Pilot," which has been a popular children’s feature during winter months of previous years, is starting again on March 25, and in future will be heard on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5.30 ‘p.m. from all ZB stations. There is a new "Peter the Pilot" album for which children may apply at any ZB station. The contents are chiefly an educational series of photographs of various activities of the Army, Navy and Air Force. * * * INCE Major Bowes starte@ the first and biggest amateur hour over an American radio station, amateur hours have been responsible for bringing to light a great deal of talent. Some of it has been unable to stand the test of time, but nevertheless many worthwhile artists have been discovered in this manner. The latest amateur hour session from the ZB stations is conducted at 4ZB by Peter Dawson, with Ian Watkins as his assistant. The artists are all young, and already some promising talent has been heard. On the opening night first prize went to a girls’ quintet of three violins, piano, and ’cello, which played Brahms’ "Hungarian Dance No, 5." Other pers formers were a young coloratura soprano, a baritone and a contralto. As well as ballads and classical music there is plenty of variety on the " Amateur Hour" programme, including hill-billies, swing combinations, and light instrumental trios. The session is on the air every Saturday at 10.0 p.m. a * * OR three years 1ZB listeners have been entertained on Sunday after. noons by relays of organ music from the Civic Theatre. Compere of the session from the start has been Guy Nixon, who arranges the programmes with the organist, and writes the continuity. Four organists have been broadcast during this period, two Australian artists in Charles Tuckwell’ and Lionel Corrick, and two local musicians, Ewart Lyne and Howard Moody, who is the present organist. Howard Moody started his professional musical career early in life, and was conducting his own theatre orchestra at the age of 17. He toured with J. C. Williamson companies both as pianist and musical director, and wrote the score of a pantomime, "Jack and the Beanstalk,’ which was staged in Invercargill. * 5 BS NE of the best known outside performers from 3ZB is Gwen Webster, who plays the piano and guitar and has a pleasant soprano voice. What listeners have not known up to now is that she has been blind from birth, and works with the aid of Braille scripts. She has been heard chiefly in children’s sessions, but now 3ZB is presenting her in a session from 5.30 tp 6.0 p.m. every Sunday evening which should reach a much wider audience. She will play recordings and also sing to her own accompaniment, varying the programme with mandolin-guitar numbers. Far from relying on other people to assist her, Gwen Webster prepares her own scripts, typing two copies herself, one in ordinary typescript and one in Braille.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 91, 21 March 1941, Page 25
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