THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 269, 18 August 1944, Page 4

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

MONDAY "Who said ‘Peacock Pie’? The Old King to the Sparrow. Who said ‘Crops are Ripe’? Rust to the harrow. Who said ‘Where sleeps she now, Where rests she now her head, Bathed in Eve’s loveliness’? That’s what I said." AND that's what Walter de la Mare said in his poem "Peacock Pie", which is the title piece of a collection of his poems and of a BBC recorded programme featuring selections from this collection. No one who has read these poems can deny their delight, but to hear them read by Hermione Hannen and V. C. Clinton-Baddeley with selections from the lilting "English Dances" of Roger Quilter gives them new enchantment. This is the programme for connoisseurs. Listen into it from 2YA at 7.53.p.m. on Monday, August 21. Also ,worth notice: 3YA, 3.0 p.m.: "Winners v. Winners." 4YA, 8.28 p.m.: Two-piano recital (studio). TUESDAY ‘ OU remember G. B. Shaw’s Pygmalion? And Leslie Howard? And the scene in Covent Garden in which Leslie Howard told some very surprised people exactly what parts of England, and even London, they came from by noting their accents? And you didn’t believe it possible? But the BBC knows there is something in it, and has produced a feature called "Every Accent Tells a Story," which you may hear at 8.14 p.m. on Tuesday, August 22, from Station 1YA. It may not be the guessing game that Shaw made the hero play, but if the BBC promises a story, then we take them at their word, and suggest that you tune in to 1YA at the appropriate time. Also worth notice: 1YX, 8.0 p.m.: Symphony No. 2 (Beethoven). 2YA, 8.30 p.m.: Symphony No. 88 (Haydn). WEDNESDAY, ON Wednesday, August 23, at 5.0 p.m., tation 3ZR Greymouth will start a new’ serial in its children’s session, called Cinnamon Bear. It is a tale of the ani-~ mals on a Christmas Tree (including Paddy O’Cinnamon, a spicy little fellow of Irish extraction) who come to life, steal the star from the top. of the tree because it looks nice, and set off round the world in the company of the children of the man who bought the tree. They even go to the North Pole where they meet Jack Frost and Father Christmas himself, and to a strange land where the people are made of blotting paper. It all sounds very absorbing. Also worth notice: 2YC, 8.0 pm: "Jupiter’ Symphony (Mozart). 4YO, 9.0 p.m.: Violin Concerto (Bela Bartok). THURSDAY E must be fruit conscious, ‘even if it’s only frozen fruit. We must make our spare time more fruitful even if we do so by .making apple-pie beds, or dancing the "Big-Apple" with the apple of our eye. All of which, you could easily say, is just’ apple-sauce. But for sensible ideas and suggestions on this subject, listen in to the A.C.E. Talk, "Ways of using apples", from 1YA at

10.45 a.m. on Thursday, August 24, from 3YA at 2.30 p.m. on the same day, and from 2YA at 10:25 am. on Friday, August 25. If you agree with the French in calling the potato the apple-of-the-earth, then you could prepare for this fruity programme by listening in to the A.C.E. talk from 4YA, "Use more Potatoes", to be broadcast at 10.0 a.m. on Wednesday, August 23. Also worth notice: 2YC, 8.0 p.m.: Quartet in F Major K.590 (Mozart). 4YA, 8.32 p.m.: Suite in Five Movements (Purcell). FRIDAY F you had to be in India to-day, which would you rather be, an,Indian, loving your pwn country and loathing its rulers, feeling that they have no right there, or en Englishman in the Civil Service, feeling thoroughly out of place and knowing that whatever you do, it will be wrong in the eyes of an Indian. You probably understand the problems of both types if you have read E. M. Forster’s Passage to India. You probably misunderstand the whole problem if you think it is just as the Western Brothers or Noel ‘Coward might state it in a comic turn or slick lyric. We don’t know (because we haven’t heard it) whether the BBC programme to be heard from 2YA at 8.28 p.m. on Friday, August 25, will take you much further but you might tune in if you are interested. It is called "Our Chaps in_ India". Also worth notice: 1YA, 8.0 p.m.: Organ recital by Murray Fastier. 3YA; 8.0 p.m.: Music from Gluck’s "Or pheus" (studio). SATURDAY SOME people might think that there would be plenty of excitement in yachting round Banks Peninsula from Lyttelton to Akaroa, but Mrs. Ruth France has called her talk on this subject "Sailing Without Excitement." Perhaps an experienced sailor becomes im- . pervious to the thrills of dodging the boom and luffing up the wind. If this is the case then Mrs. France probably feels no excitement, for she and her husband and young son have made a hobby of sailing, and this talk is one of a series she has given on the subject. It will be heard at 11.0 a.m. from 3YA on Saturday, August 26. Also worth notice: f 1YX, 9.0 p.m.: Russian Masters (IX.). 3YL, 8.0 p.m.: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, SUNDAY iE throbbing of a Squadron of bombers seems an incongruous accompani- ment for the trilling of a nightingale, yet to one listener in an English wood, the combination sang of English unity. And this is the atmosphere that permeates the short BBC programme to be heard from 3YA at 5.45 p.m. on Sunday, August 27. The programme is entitled "The Pilot and the Nightingale" and bears the sub-title "An English Miniature." It is written and narrated by Charlotte: Edmunds. Also worth notice: 2YA, 9.50 p.m.: "Her Shop" (NBS play). 9.22 p.m.: Serenade for Strings (Dvorak).