Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 98, 9 May 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZB's

[FF Enemy Within, the spy drama which was heard over the ZB’s early last year, has started again from station 2ZB, and is heard every Monday and Tuesday at 6.30 p,m. The scene of the story is Australia, and it deals with Nazi espionage in the Commonwealth. The leading part of Franz Beckendorf, a German spy sent to organise Nazi activities in Australia, is taken by . Walter Pym, who produced and took leads in the serials Grand Hotel, Blood Relations, and Emile Zola. * %* * ISTENERS to Jerry sometimes hear references to Jerry’s dog, and probably imagine. that, along with Fanny, he exists only in a world of fantasy. But Jerry’s dog is a real live animal named Buddy, and is a well known figure around the 1ZB studio. A Manchester terrier, he has a full repertoire of tricks and is inseparable from his two friends. * % * HEN the first Apple Quest was con- ‘ ducted over the ZB stations a week or two ago, it was announced that prizes of cases of apples would be given to listeners who sent in suitable lists of articles for future quests. The result was surprising. Within two days the ZB’s had received a huge pile of mail, representing well over a thousand suggestions. Needless to say, there are sufficient useable lists for a good many sessions to come. To preserve complete secrecy in future Apple Quests, lists of articles will be sent to the various stations in sealed envelopes which will not be opened until the night of the broadcast. The session has proved so popular that ways and means of extending it to larger provincial towns are being discussed. % * * . DOROTHY HAIGH, who inaugurated the Young Marrieds’ Circle at 3ZB and conducted it for just on twelve months, said farewell to listeners the other day and introduced her successor, "Philippa." Miss Haigh has joined 3ZB’s copywriting staff. " Philippa," who is well known in Christchurch, is one of the leading lights on the Entertainment Committee of the Territorial Forces, and has done a good deal of repertory work. She was the Christchurch winner of the "Search for Beauty" film contest conducted throughout New Zealand some years ago. Colin Tapley was New Zealand winner in the men’s section, ae a FROM about the middle of May, the ZB programme Mighty Moments takes a new twist, For two months the feature has dramatised incidents in early New Zealand history; now the scene shifts to a more contemporary: setting, and future episodes will discuss the achievements of such famous New Zealanders as Lord Rutherford, Dr. J. G. Myers of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Captain A. M. Hamilton, who built an important road through Kurdistan, and Sir Hugh Walpole, the Auckland born novelist. Mighty Moments plays over all the ZB stations and 2ZA Palmerston North every Friday «: 9.0 p.m.