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LL the Commercial stations have made special arrangements for the Christmas season. At 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve, -3ZB will present in dramatised form the story of how the carol "Silent Night, Holy Night" came to be composed. From the small village of Oberndorf, near Salbury, this song by Joseph Mohr, parish priest, and Franz Gruber, schoolmaster and organist, has encircled the globe. The local radio production of this special Christmas programme is of a high standard, featuring the Christmas Cathedral Choir under C. Foster Browne. and leading members of the Christchurch Repertory Society. At 1ZB and 4ZB the same programme will be heard at 9.30 p.m. on Christmas Day. The Dunedin cast will be headed by the Rev. O. Baragwanath, . a chaplain recently returned from overseas. The producer is Jessie McLennan. Station 3ZB’s Children’s Christmas session will prove a fitting close for the children’s big day, for Santa Claus will be present on Christmas night somewhere in the studio, ahd Gracie and Jacko have been promised a host of interesting items for the Christmas Tree, items all designed to give real entertainment to the young listener. There will be special Christmas stories, music and competitions, and Santa Claus himself has promised to be at the microphone somehow to say hello and good-bye to young Christchurch before he journeys back to his home,
"Big Ben Looks Down" For close on 86 years Big Ben has looked down over the Empire’s capitala sentinel of its joys, its sorrows, its pageantry. A few years ago, Les Strachan, now acting programme organiser of 2ZB, broadcast a special programme covering some of the _ historic events which Big Ben has witnessed or overheard since first he was hoisted up to his eagle’s eyrie above the Thames. This programme, which has been revised to cover events up to the present, will be one of the feature programmes from 2ZB on Sunday, December 24, Christmas Eve. In it, Les Strachan will deal with all phases of London life, In order to present the type of programme that Manawatu listeners are exe pecting from their Commercial stations on Christmas Day, 2ZA ‘has made arrangements to stay on the air right throughout the day instead of observing the customary break from 9.30 a.m.: Beginning at 9.30 with special Christmas recordings, 2ZA will present carefully chosen programmes, covering all listeners’ tastes, CHRISTMAS SPORTS BROADCASTS AUCKLAND:-Auckland Racing Club meeting, at Ellerslio, LYA, Tuesday, December 26. WELLINGTON:-Representative Cricket, Auckland v. Wellington, 2YA, Christmas Day. At 3.0 p.m. and intervals. CHRISTCHURCH:-Representative Cricket, Canterbury v. Otago, 3YA, December 23, 25 and 26. Ball-to-ball commentaries from time to time. DUNEDIN:-Dunedin Jockey Club meeting at Wingatui, 4YA, Tuesday, December 26. INVERCARGILL:-South Island Bowling Championships, 4YZ, starting December 26. Times not yet fixed, The National stations will broadcast sports results at the usual times on Saturday, December 23. Station 3ZB will have additional sports sessions at 9.0 a.m, and 7.0 p.m. on Boxing Day. 2 ~
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 287, 22 December 1944, Page 9
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