Items From The ZB’s

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 124, 7 November 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZB’s

HE week-day programme contri. buted every night at 6.30 o’clock from 1ZB by Eric Bell atthe Novachord are also heard from the other Commercial stations, The programmes are: Monday, "Past Favourites," a session of songs of several decades back; Tuesday, "Music in a Sentimental Mood," the title of which is self explanatory; Wednes. day, "Contrasts"-of classical and mod ern hits, of waltzes and tangos, old time and modern; Thursday, "Music From the Films"; and Friday, "The Latest Song Hits." There is a guest artist every night. Station 1ZB’s Sun. day resumé of highlights of the previous week’s radio theatre shows is another programme heard from CBS stations now. * es ® WRITERS in Australian and American radio journals have heard about Julian Lee, the young blind pianist who conducts a regular session from 4ZB every Sunday evening, and have expressed’ amazement that he is able to handle the recording turntables and complicated control apparatus with ease and confidence. His session, they think, must be unique in broadcasting. They would be even more impressed, however, could they see Julian preparing his programmes, selecting records from the closely-packed racks in the programme department, trying them over, and returning them to their correct places without faltering. 7 * ca OST New Zealand picturegoers are almost as well versed in film news and gossip as if they lived in Hollywood itself and it is to these picturegoers who insist on knowing who’s who and what’s what in films, that Station 3ZB appeals with the Hollywood Reporter session on Friday mornings at 10.15 o’clock. The people who compile the session keep an ear to the ground, and are usually well posted regarding films due for future release in the Dominion. The news is varied with music from the films. STATION 2ZB’s "Quizmaster" (in private life John Morris) is finding the session he conducts on Tuesdays and Thursdays more entertaining than he ever imagined. The age limit for the children who can enter for the quiz is between 8 and 15, and all questions pertain to New Zealand. The answers bring the usual number of howlers, one of the latest coming from a youngster who calmly stated that Ao-tea-roa meant land of daylight saving. The standard of general knowledge of the average young contestant however, is surprisingly high. One lad of eleven years, for instance, when asked what mistake Captain Cook had made in his‘ original chart of New Zealand, replied promptly and correctly that he had shown Banks Peninsula as an island and Stewart Island as a peninsula.