CHRISTMAS RADIO FARE
EASONAL programmes have been well distributed over the national stations for the Christmas period. As well as traditional carols, the programmes include two plays, a pantomime, a relay of a BBC Christmas programme, and church services. Harold Williams will also sing a
special selection on Christmas Day. Auckland listeners will hear carols sung by the St. Andrew’s Vocal Quartet at 8.5 p.m. on Wednesday (1YA); " Christmas Cheer, a festival programme on records," at 8.30 p.m. on Thursday (1YX); and hymns and carols at 10 a.m. on Thursday (1ZM). In Wellington from 2YA on Thursday evening "The
Shadow," a Christmas play produced by the NBS, will be presented, followed by carols sung by the St. Martin’s Choral Society. The station will stay on the air to relay the BBC Christmas programme from 1 a.m, to 2.15 am. Station 2YC will broadcast Cinderella, a Christmas pantomime, at 9.25 p.m. on Thursday. Christchurch listeners are well catered for this Christmas. On Wednesday evening O, L. Simmance’s 3YA reading will be entitled "How They Spent Christmas," and after this comes Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. At 11,30 p.m. the Carol Singers, conducted by Victor Peters, will give a special session, and at midnight Bishop Brodie will conduct a short devotional service. On Christmas Day, 3YA will have a special programme at 11 am., a carol service from the Christchurch Cathedral at 7.30 p.m. and then at 8.35 appropriate songs by Harold Williams, At 9.25 W. Graeme Holder’s NBS produced play Four Looked Down on Christmas Morn, will be broadcast. Stations 1YA, 2YA, 3YA, 3ZR, 4YZ, and 2YH will re-broadcast the BBC Christmas programme at 6.40 p.m. on Friday. Station 4YA has two special items on Thursday evening, Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, and the "Shepherds’ Christmas Music" from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Nor will Christmas be forgotten at . Station 2YD, Wellington, which will hold "Christmas Parties" at 7.43 p.m, and will end its programme with Christmas music, The other auxiliary NBS stations will all be entertaining their listeners with appropriate music. Followers of sport will have a wide variety of broadcasts to follow.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 10
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348CHRISTMAS RADIO FARE New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 10
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