Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 233, 10 December 1943, Page 19

Items From The ZB's

tee N Wings of Melody" is a feature programme which is now on the air at 1ZB, and which will begin at 2ZB on December 18 at 9.15 p.m. It will come to 3ZB and 4ZB early in the New Year. In this programme a quartet of stringed instruments and piano present music of general appeal. The four players are Helen Gray, Moya Cooper-Smith, June Taylor and Kathleen O’Leary. With the exception of June Taylor (who took the place of Marjorie Tiarks six months ago), the quartet has been playing together for more than nine years, and is known in Auckland as the St. James Quartet. The compere for this new session is Don McGregor, whose voice will be familiar to listeners who heard Ray Baber’s series of song recitals, The music the quartet will present is drawn from many sources, both classical and popular. a = * FORTHCOMING BBC programmes to be heard from the ZB’s "Eternity in An Hour," a dramatisation of the underground front in Occupied Europe, from 3ZB on Sunday, December 12; "Britain’s Life-lines of the Air," which tells how Britain’s merchant air fleet was built up in peace and war, from 1ZB on Sunday, December 19; and "Queen Victoria," a story beginning in June, 1837, when the young Princess Victoria came to the throne, which will be heard from 4ZB on Sunday, December 12, and from 2ZA on December 26, with Anna Neagle playing the role of the Queen. 3 By * * Two attractive features have recently ‘been chosen for inclusion in 2ZA programmes. They sré Nightcap Yarns, a series of original stories, told in a straightforward fashion, and Songs of Yesteryear, a programme which consists of songs that have remained in the affection of the public for a number of years. The items are accompanied by a commentary giving details of the origins of the songs and the history of the composers. Nightcap Yarns is heard from 2ZA on Tuesdays and Thursday at 8.45 p.m., and Songs of Yesteryear on Mondays and Wednesdays at the same time.