BBC Programmes From The ZB Stations
‘THE ZB stations will present a variety of BBC transcriptions on Sunday, October 31, at 7.45 p.m. "Troise and His Mandoliers," to be heard from 1ZB. is a short programme of light music by Pasquale Troise and his band known as "The Mandoliers,’ the majority of the instruments being mandolins, with some guitars, a piano-accordion, and a piano. This combination has proved one of the most popular in the Music While You Work series of daily broadcasts to factory workers in the British Isles. Station 2ZB will present "Power for the R.A.F." In this BBC programme "Billy Welcome," who has made a name by portraying for radio the human side of Britain at war, takes the listener into one of the largest aero-engine factories in Britain. The broadcast is made from the canteen, and. the contributors are the men who make the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. From 3ZB will come "Men Behind Victory: the Men Who Beat the Magnetic Mine." One of those men was Lt.Cdr. Ouvrey who, when he went out alone to dismantle a mine beached on the Thames estuary mudflats, said: "If I get blown up, you’ll know you mustn’t make my last move with the next of these mines you collect. Now give me the tools." This was the spirit that led to victory over Hitler’s "secret weapon." "An English Family" is the title of ‘the programme from 4ZB, and "One of Our Aircraft is Missing" will be heard from 2ZA, _.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 226, 22 October 1943, Page 13
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250BBC Programmes From The ZB Stations New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 226, 22 October 1943, Page 13
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