Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 164, 14 August 1942, Page 7

Items From The ZB's

Oe a ee ee oe et NEW serial will begin on August 18, at 10.15 am. from 3ZB, called The Green House. This is the story of Fred and Nancy Green, a newly-wed couple who share their home with Eleanor, Fred’s sister, an old maid who has young ideas. She leads all the town’s social functions, belongs to all the clubs, knows everyone, and talks about everybody. Fred, an amateur inventor, owns a hardware store, where all the town’s characters come to buy and gossip, Each episode deals with some problem, humorous or serious, in this household, and interest increases when Eleanor falls in love with and marries an English Shakespearean actor who has come to the town to direct a local play and who stays to save the hardware business from ruin. WHAT strange experiences have you had? This is the question that the ZB stations are asking you. The new serial, Strange Experiences, is the dramatised version of some of the stories that have been sent in. The prize for having your story chosen will be £1 1s. The first episode of the series is the story told by a Mr. Collins of a visit that he paid to an old friend, a priest, in the slums of Glasgow-but we leave you to hear for yourself what happened. This programme has already started from 1ZB, 2ZB and 3ZB, It will begin from 4ZB on August 18, and from 2ZA on August 27, in each case on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m. .