Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 106, 4 July 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZB's

ZB stations are conducting every Sunday afternoon is producing some amusing results. The winner at 1ZB on a recent Sunday was a young man who gave a series of animal and other imitations, including what the station carefully refers to as "several not usually heard in this line." The second prize was won by another young man who played Vienna, City of My Dreams on a saw. The other eleven entries included songs, sketches, elocution items, and Dickens characterisations. One man came all the way from Frankton to sing two versions of IJ Bacio, one as sung by a prima donna and the other as sung by a Metropolitan basso. The quest is shortly coming to a close. 7 * * NEW session at Station 4ZB is Down Memory Lane, which is on the aif at 7.15 p.m. every Sunday and features Airini Grennell and Jimmie McFarlane in groups of once popular songs and ballads. Ian Watkins acts as narrator, -Other new sessions lately added to 4ZB’s programmes are Melodies in Waltz Time at 6.30 p.m. on Mondays; Soft Lights and Sweet Music, a restful quarter-hour continuity programme at 6.30 p.m, on Wede nesdays; and Hits and Encores, on Fridays at 6.30 p.m. The 4ZB Merry-Go-Round, a variety programme of quiz competitions, community singing and items by guest artists, is heard on Fridays at 10.0 p.m. Amateur Trials, with Peter Dawson as Master of Ceremonies, are back on the air on Saturday mights at 10.0 p.m. The week-end sports summary, formerly heard at 10.0 p.m. on Fridays, has been transferred to 7.45 p.m. on the same night. novelty radio quest which the Ea * O the layman the "innards" of a radio set are as complex and beyond understanding as the interior of the human. frame itself. Every Saturday morning, however, 3ZB’s "Radio tells listeners how to cure those common faults of radio-grit in the speaker, @ valve loose in its socket, a faulty aerial. On occasions he even gives advice on major problems such as replacing worn out condensers and resisters. The title of "Radio Doctor" hides the identity of Maurice King, announcer-technician at 3ZB, who has had many years’ ex perience in the technical side of radio. Although the session has not been on the air many weeks, listeners are taking full advantage of his offer to answer letters in his session, with the result that the 15 minutes between 11.30 and 11.45 is proving all too short. % * % HE best recordings of some of the most famous dance bands are featured in the session Kings of Jazz at the ZB stations. On Saturday, July 12, at 10.30 p.m. for instance, station 3ZB presents Bob Crosby and his band. As most swing fans know, Bob Crosby is a brother of the more famous Bing. He has appeared in several pictures, re sembles Bing, and also croons. On the same day at 9.45 p.m., 2ZB presents Mantovani and his Tipica Orchestra.