SATURDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 100, 23 May 1941, Page 38

SATURDAY

NATIONAL

MAY 31

| Y 650 k ¢. 462 m. @. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7,30 (approx.) Breakfast session 8.46 NEWS FROM LONDON 9.0 "Entertainers All" 10. O Devotional service: Rev. F, de Lisle 10.20 "For My Lady": Rachmaninoff, master pianist, composer and conductor 10.45 "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists: Tennyson Jesse," by Margaret Johnston 11. 0 ‘Domestic Harmony" 12, 0 Lunch music (12.15 p.m, NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.15 Headline news and views 2.0 "Rhythm in Relays" 3.30 Sports results 4.30 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session (‘ Cinderella ") 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Taik): "Czar and Carpenter" Overture (Lortsing); "Village Swallows from Austria’ {Sirauce)s "Fairy Tale" {Komzak); "A Tune ver the Air’ (Jager); "Chanson D'Amour" (Suk "Round the Films’’ (Lubbe); "River everies"’; "Dreaming Flowers" (Translateur); "Dances of the Polovtsian Maidens" (Borodin); "Deluge" (Saint-Saens); ‘‘Polonaise"’ (Jager); "‘Some Day My Prince Will Come" (Morey); "‘Entrance of the Queen of Roses’ (Rhode); "Pagliacci Serenade" (Leoncavallo), 7.0 Local news service 7.16 Topical Talk with BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Buccaneers Male Voice Octet, "Song of the Marines" "Night Over Shanghai" Warren "Oh! Ask of the Stars Beloved" ........... ea . trad. "Brothers of Romany" 7.44 Guila Bustabo (violin), "On Wings of Song" Mendelssohn Prelude and Allegro Stone Pugnani 7.53 Studio recital by Nancye O’Connor (soprano), of Irish traditional songs "I Once Loved a Boy" "Spinning Wheel Song" arr. Stanford "Tf I Had a Knew" "Garton Mother’s Lullaby" . "The Gap in the Hedge" arr. Hughes 8. 5 Eric Coates and Symphony Orchestra, "Cinderella" .........+ «» Coates 8417 Richard Tauber (tenor), ; "Don’t be Cross" ........ Zeller PONAGES 6..000.00050....0ee0ee00 eNO? "Can I Forget You?" . Kern $8.27 Studio recital by Winifred : Cooke (piano), "Moto Perpetuo" ......... Weber "Four Cuban Dances" Bare Cervantes "Bohemian Dance" ; Smetana

8.57 9. 0 9.15 9.25 10.10 11. 0 11.30 Studio recital by the Melody Maids, "The Umbrella Man" Stock "Oh Dry Those Tears" Del Riego "Patty Cake" ....... setae Razaf "A Nightingale Sang _ in Berkeley Square" .... Sherwin Erie Coates and Symphony Orchestra, "By the Sleepy Lagoon" Coates Station notices NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary VARIETY, featuring Geraldo and his Orchestra, Jessie Matthews and the Blackbirds 10. 0 Sports results Dance music NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN UV ZA ‘rote title a Light music 748 8. 0 10.30 / After dinner music "Billy Bunter of Greyfriars" Frolics and Fancies, with "The Dark Horse’’ at 8.30; and at 9.30, Filmland Memories: ‘Gracie Fields in songs from "The Show Goes On" = Close down 2 AUCKLAND — 1250k.c, 240m. 1. Op. m. Band music, miscellaneous numbers, piano, piano-accordion and organ selection® Light orchestral, popular and vocal selections, popular medleys Light orchestral and popular music, miscellaneous items Signal preparation for the Air Force Sports results Orchestral interlude Dance session Close down

2 y 570 kc. 526m. In the event of Parliament being broadcast, this proeranme will be transmitted by 2YC. Usual hours of Parliament: 10.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2.30 to 5.30 p.m. 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 9. O Morning variety 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Popular melodies 10.2810 10.30 Time signals 10.40 For My Lady: "Oliver Twist" 11.0 "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists: Mrs, Aeneas Gunn," by Margaret Johnston 11.16 Something for everybody 12. 0 Lunch music (12.15p.m,, NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.15 Headline news and views 2..:0 Saturday’ matinee 3.0 ne commentary on the Rugby Match (relayed from Athletic Park) 3.28 103.30 Time signals 5. O Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Ball at the Savoy’"’ (Abraham); ‘‘Love Me Forever’ (Schertzinger); Potpourri from the film "Truza"’ (Leur); "Mon Reve" (Waldteufel); "Gipsy Moon" (Borganoff); "A Musical Snuff Box’ (Liadow); "Souvenir de Cappri"’ (Becce); "I Love Thee" (Grieg); "Paganini Selection’ (Lehar); "Indra" Waltz (Lincke); "Songs of the Rhineland" (Schmidt). 7.0 Official news service 7.15 "Britain Speaks" 7.28107.30 Time signals 7.45 EVENING PROGRAMME: "Voices in Harmony": The Master Singers bring you a well varied quarter-hour weekly session 8.\0 "Over the Garden Wall": A little summer fantasy, (A BBC production) 8.14 Songs of the Day, featuring Thos, E. West (tenor), 8.26 Intermission: Billy Cotton’s Band, "Dixieland" Memories 8.29 "New Tunes For Old" Have the old tunes lost their lustre? Have the new tunes greater radiance? Decide for yourselves by listening to Olga Burton (soprano), James Rodgers (flute), Mrs. Chas MacDonald (pianist), and Shirley Wilson (soprano), Noel Habgood (saxophone), Pat Bell (pianist) (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 DANCE PROGRAMME 10. 0 Sports summary

10.10 Continuation of dance programme 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN QVC MELINGTON 3. 0-4.30 perm. Light music 5. O Tunes for the tea-table 6. O Musical menu 6.36 Signal preparation for Air Force 7. O After dinner music 8. 0 Classicana 10. 0 Variety 10.30 Close down DVip)WELLINGTON 990 k.c, 303 m. From listeners to listeners 10. 0 Close down QM) ©) NEW PLYMOUTH 810k.c. 370m. 6.30 p.m. Children’s session 7.30 Sports results and reviews 8.0 Music, mirth and melody 8. 0 Station notices 9.2 Recordings 10. 0 Close down QV irl 750 ke. 395 m. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON Breakfast session 45-9.0 NEWS FROM LONDON O Light music O-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (12.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) Headline News and Views Dance music in strict tempo For the children; ‘"*The Adventures of Marco Polo" "Savoy Cavalcade" Walter Midgley (tenor) "Evergreens of Jazz’ Pe FROM’ LONDON and Topical Talk Hawke’s Bay -Rugby results After dinner music Topical Talk from the BBC "The Nuisance" The State Opera Orchestra, Dances (Mozart) From the Studio: Ewan G. Collin (bass), ‘""Vulcan’s Song’ (Gounod); "The King’s Minstrel’ (Pinsuti) 8.18 The London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Rossiniana.’ Barcarolle and Sicililana (Rossini- Respight) 8.27 Ewan G, Collin (basa), ‘The DeathJess Army" (Trotere), "The Yeomen of England" "Glorle ous Devon" (Sanderson) 8.37 Eileen Joyce (piano). "Waldesrauschen" (Liszt), "Serenade" (Strauss), "Dance of the Gnomes" (Liszt) 8.47 Jeanette MacDonald (soprano) 8.55 The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Moto Perpetuo (Lotter) 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.26 ‘Thrills’ 9.40 Medleys from the Shows 10. 0 Close down 2 y NI 920ke¢. 327m. . bag "Listeners’ Own Session" Boston Promenade Orchestra, "Danube Waves" (Ivanovici) 8,10 ‘* Scott of Scotiand Yard pe e Light recitals $9.16 Dance music 9.30 Swing session 10, 0 Close down 1 1 io" oe oou SINND HHT gags mais aoa fe) . — a

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SATURDAY

NATIONAL

MAY 31

¥ Y 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 8.46 NEWS FROM LONDON 8. 0 Morning melodies 410. 0 "For My Lady": Popular instrumental Combinations, Frank Bilffo’s Brass Quintet and Englemann’s String Quintet 10.30 Devotional service 11.0 "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists: Edna Ferber and Fannie Hurst," by Margaret Johnston 41,10 Light "®rchestral session 11.30 Popular tunes 412. 0 Lunch music (12.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.15 Headline news and views 2. 0 Bright music 2.30 Happy memories 3. 0 Relay from Lancaster Park of Rugby Football Match 4.30 Sports results Rhythm and melody 6. O Children’s session (" Riddleman ’’) 6.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "The Waltz King" (Lindemann); "Caprtcious Intermezzo’ (Micheli); ‘Evening Bells’ (Billi); "Doll Dance" (Brown); "Moonlight on the Alster" (F etras); "Baby's Birthday"’ (Busch); ‘Fire Dance’ (Falla); "Ballroom Whispers" (Meyer); "Clad in Lace and Silk’’ (Siede); ‘‘Under the Linden Tree" (Feliz); "Melodies from Scandinavia" ; "When Budapest Was Young’ (Milos); "Merry Melodies" (Roland); "Intermezzo" (Strauss). 7, 0 Local news service 7.15 Topical War Talk from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, "Acceleration Waltz" Strauss 7.39 "Exploits of the Black Moth": Final episode: "The Snake" 8. 4 Marek Weber and his Orchestra, "Tales from the Orient" Strauss 8. 8 From the Studio: R. W. Stevenson (baritone), "The Menin Gate" ........ Bowen "Captain Mac" ,... Sanderson "Son of Mine" ........ Wallace "Chorus Gentlemen" .... Lohr 8.21 Richard Liebert (organist), "All Through the Night" Porter "If There is Someone Lovelier Than You" ........ Schwartz "Peal OU iiscssiecsastecasscasene Lattio "PEST ORION ccastesnscickere Alstyne "Memory Lane" ............ Spier 8.33 Some Recent Releases: The Blue Hungarian Band, "Barcarolle" ("Tales of HoffMAN") sesscecscrsseeeeee Offenbach 8.36 The Smoothies, "Pretty Baby" ............ Alstyne "The Beautiful Buxom ond maid" Gro 8.42 Bob Knight guitar), "To You, Sweetheart Aloha" Owens "Pagan Love Song" .... Brown 8.48 Turner Layton (tenor) "If I Should Fall in Love Again" .................. Popplewell "Sleepy Lagoon" ........ Coates 8.54 The Blue Hungarian Band, | "Faust Waltz" v0. Gounod |

8.58 Station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 VARIETY 10. 0 . Sports summary 10.156 DANCE MUSIC 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN NVA CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. 3. 0-4.0 pm. Light music 5. O Tunes for the tea-table 6. O Music for everyman 6.35 «Signal preparation for Air Force 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 Symphonio programme: Modern composers, featuring ‘The FireBird Suite" (Stravinsky), Violin Concerto in D Minor (Vaughan Williams); ‘Rhapsody on a Theme ee Op. 43" (Rachmanino 10. 0 Favourite entertainers 10.30 Close down SZ GREYMOUTH 940k.c; 319m. 7. Oa.m. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 9. 0-10.0 Morning music 12. 0 Lunch music Nf. i5 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON 41.16 Headline News ai Views 2.0 Variety 3. 0 Football from Rugby Park 5. O Variety 6.30 Dinner music 6. 0 "Personal Column" 6.15 oon FROM LONDON and Topical a 6.43 Sporting results and station notices 7. 0 Hi, ho, the merry o 7.15 Topical Talk from the BBG 7.30 Famous orchestras 7.45 Voices of the air 8. 0 "David Copperfield" 8.24 Spotlight parade 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Radio rhythm revue 10. 0 Close down

ay Y 790 k c. 380 m. 6, Gam. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 10. 0 Random ramblings 10.40 "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists: Winifred Holtby,’" by Margaret Johnston 11.0 "For My Lady": "Ernest Maltravers" 11.20 Melodious memories: Novelty and humour 11.30 At intervals, running commentaries on the Dunedin Jockey Club’s meeting (relayed from Wingatui) 12. 0 Lunch music (12.15 p.m, NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.15 Headline news and views 1.30 Running commentary on_ senior Rugby match 3.15 Running commentary on football match at Carisbrook 445 Sports results 5. 0 Seusrens session (‘How to Make" ub) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "The Silken Ladder’ Overture (Rossini); "Adua"’ March (Olivieri); "The Phantom Watch" (Haarhaus); "You're Here, You're There. You're Everywhere’ (Kahal); ‘"‘La Paloma" (Yradier); "It Happened in Vienna" (Muhr); "If My Songs Were Only Winged" (Hahn); "Barcarole" (Grothe); "Pagliacct"’ (Leoncavallo); "Rumanian Shepherd Song and Dance’; "The Mikado Selection" (Sullivan); ‘‘Ninna-Nanna’"’ (Micheli); "Black Orchids’ (Richartz); "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers’ (Jessel); "The Mill in the Black Forest" (Eilenberg); "Spanish Dance" (Moszkowski); ‘Grieg Waltz" (Grieg). 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 Topical talk from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: The New Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra, "Britannia Overture" McKenzie 7.40 The Four Voices, "In Old Madrid" ... Trotere "In the Gloaming" ........ Hill 7.46 Dajos Bela Orchestra, "Electric Girl" ......... Holmes "Eldgafeln" .....i...000. Landen 7.54 H. Gerber (piano), "Tl Bacio" OUI, wisciihticdewsccihacd, ae 8. 0 Gil Dech and the 4YA Orchestra, with Studio vocalists Trevor Thomas (baritone), Dorothy Sligo (soprano) "Down the Mall" March Belton "Badinage" .......... Herbert 8. 8 Trevor Thomas, "Those Sad Blue Eyes" Sanderson "My Lovely Celia" .... Wilson 8.144 The Orchestra, "SL YNGHUTEC « .icssceveence wwe Gray "The Dancing Clock" 8.20 Dorothy Sligo, "Achal by the Sea" Lawrence "QO Could I but Express in Song" s.sccccsesseeeeee Malashkin ‘Damon" ....0dreee Stange 8.28 The Orchestra, "London Again Suite" Coates 8.43 Trevor Thomas, "Till I Wake" "Less Than the Dust" Woodforde Finden

8.50 The Orchestra, "Bells Across the Meadow" Ketelbey "Just a Little Closer" Pe Meyer 8.58 Station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Dance music 10. 0 Sports resulte 10.10 Dance music 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN 4) Y 140k¢. 263m. 5. 4 p.m. Tunes for the tea-table 6. Melody and song 7. ° After dinner music 7.45 ‘The Crimson Trail" 8. 0 Hits of the day 8.30 "The Moonstone " 9. O Strike up the band 10. 0 "People in Pictures" 10.30 Close down av INVERCARGILL | 680k.c. 441m. 7. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.380 Breakfast session 8.45-9.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 41. 0 Recordings 42. 0-2.0p.m. Lunch music (12.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.15 Headline News and Views 5. O Saturday special 6. 0 Bot Arm ga of the Pirate Ship ultu 6.15 ae lag FROM LONDON and Topical 6.46 Raymonde and his Band o’ Banjos 6.48 To-day’s sports results 7.0 Accordiana 7.15 ‘Topical Talk from the BBC 7.80 Screen snapshots 8. 0 Shall We Dance? Interludes by Turner Layton 8.57 Station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.156 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Late sporting 9.28 For the connoisseur: Russian composers, io ie Moussorgsky’s "A ay a Bare Mountain," and ndov's "The Enchanted Lake" 10. 0 Close down

SS] Gardening Talks 1YA: 2YA: 3YA: 4YA: 1ZM: 4YZ: 1ZB: 2ZB: 3ZB: 4ZB: 2ZA: Tuesday, May 27, 7.10 p.m. Wednesday, May 28, 7.30 p.m. : Monday, May 26, 7.10 p.m. Thursday, May 29, 7.10 p.m, Monday, May 26, 7.20 p.m. Friday, May 30, 7.30 p.m. Saturday, May 31, 12.45 p.m. Saturday, May 31, 8.30 a.m. Saturday, May 31, 8.15 a.m. Saturday, May 31, 5.45 p.m. Tuesday, May 27, 6.45 p.m.