Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 264, 14 July 1944, Page 15

Items From The ZB's

[LISTENERS to 1ZB at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays wiil hear a programme which has its setting in the bleak northlands of Canada, and has the work of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as its theme, Each episode is complete in itself, and tells in dramatic form the many adventures, unusual occurrences and perilous escapes in the life of Sergeant Blair. Blair of the Mounties commences on Wednesday, July 19, from 1ZB. * * * N unusual quizz session was recently presented from 2ZB when competitors, instead of having to answer the questions in the Give It a Name Jackpots quizz, each took a turn in asking the compere, Maurice Hawken, the question. If he answered correctly, the prize money for the question was jackpotted for the next show, but if he failed to give the correct answer the prize money in each case was paid to the competitor asking the question. Hundreds of people sent in questions, and the eight questions selected were sealed and handed to the competitors just before the session began. Maurice Hawken was unable to answer the big question-"Who was the composer of the Marseillaise?"--which earned the competitor £4. Give It a Name Jackpots has proved very popular with 2ZB _jisteners, and in the past four years, more than 2000 questions have been asked. Prize money amounts to no less than £150 a year. %* *- mm [t may come as something of a surprise to many listeners to learn that the session Easy Aces is soon to be discontinued. Because of a change in the American © broadcasting arrangements, discs will no longer be available, and the final broadcast of this long-estab-lished feature will take place from 2Z2B on July 14, from 1ZB and 3ZB on July 31, from 4ZB August 4, and from 2ZA on August 2. Though the passing of Easy Aces will be regretted by many, it is to be followed by a serial which should take its place in popularityThe Story of Susan Lee, the story of a young mother. It is also the story of a great maternity hospital, of its doctors, its patients and its nurses. This serial will be heard from all ZB stations each Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening at &20, beginning on Monday, August 7. * Ea e REPLACING A’ Doctors Case Book from the ZB stations at ‘7.15 on Tuesdays and Thursdays is an exciting production entitled Crime on the Highway. Centred along the northern coast of Australia, the story opens undrqmatically enough with the disappearance of a military truck carrying Diesel oil somewhere on the highway. But when a second and a third truck disappear, then the sequence of events takes on @ more sinister significance that seems to go far beyond the original explanation of a simple case of black market "hijacking." Crime on the Highway starts at 1ZB on Tuesday, July 18, at 2ZB on August 1, at 3ZB and 4ZB on August 29, and thereafter will be heard every Tuesday and Thursday at 7.15.