Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 148, 24 April 1942, Page 21

Items From The ZB's

O date, Doreen Udell, the young Christchurch soprano who has been featured over 3ZB on recent Sunday evenings, has drawn principally on her repertoire of standard ballads. For Sunday evening, April 26, however, she has chosen a programme of songs entirely from light opera. The operas represented are New Moon, Rose Marie, Maid of the Mountains, and High Jinks. The broadcast will be at 7.45 p.m. NLIKE Christchurch, Wellington is not noted for its gardens, and the soil of city sections is especially rocky and hard to cultivate. But a certain section on the corner of Taranaki Street and Courtenay Place is an outstanding example of what can be done with a little determination and expert knowledge of garden. Three months ago, it was a rubbish dump, not an ordinary rubbish dump, but a classic display of old motor-cars and discarded hardware. Then, with the need to produce vegetables on every available plot of soil, it was taken in hand, and before long it was a first-rate vegetable garden. The other Saturday, "S.uowy," 2ZB’s gardening expert, conducted a relay from the section, holding it up as an example to timid Wellington gardeners of what can be done on the most difficult plots. A picture taken during the relay appears con the opposite page. * ee xs UNEDIN listeners’ musical knowe ledge is put to a critical test in a new novelty session from 4ZB, Musical Jingles. It is an audience participation session with no audience in the studio. A pianist plays extracts froth 20 well known compositions, and listeners are asked to identify them on a chart. There is a musical jingle to be solved also. The session had its first broadcast at 7.45 p.m. on Monday, April 20. * Ba ae N the past, the Commercial stations have played serials in quarter hours and half hours, but never in longer instalments. Station 3ZB, however, has decided that Christchurch listeners will welcome three-quarters of an hour at a time of Charlie Chan, which is being presented from 2.30 p.m. until 3.15 p.m. every Saturday. Another exciting serial The Enemy Within, is returning to the air at 3ZB, and will be heard every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon at 3.30. From April 25, David Combridge’s gardening session will be presented at 1.0 p.m. every Saturday. * ae . *® BETTE SPIRO, whose pleasant singing voice is well known to 1ZB listeners, and also, through recordings of Radio Theatre shows, to listeners to the southern stations, is now on the staff of 1ZB as a receptionist. Bette is an experienced character actress and script writer, and will in every way be a useful addition to the staff.