Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 294, 9 February 1945, Page 9

Items From The ZB's

OME time ago Joan Kinmont, an Australian, wrote a poem, "This Is My Son." The narration by Jessie McLennan (her photograph appears on page 16) was heard from 4ZB. The publishers were so impressed with the good effect on the sales of the poem that they have written to the NBS with the result that arrangements were made for them to hear the disc. The poem is said to have aroused great interest in Australia and requests have been made for Miss McLennan’s record to be made available to Australian listeners. Miss McLennan has had professional experience in plays and drama in Australia and New Zealand, and conducts the Shoppers’ Session from 4ZB. * * * OME people say that Peter B. Kyne’s character "Cappy Ricks" actually existed. If he didn’t, then there were probably some shipping owners somewhat like him, It should make no difference, however, to your enjoyment of the breezy presentation of Kyne’s story from 2ZA every Monday and Tuesday evening at 7.30. * t Ea "1JAVE you a secret problem-a secret worry? Bring it to Professor Blank," who will no doubt put it right-for a fee. But the only fee asked by the ZB stations for their new feature along these lines is the annual license fee which everybody pays. "Personal Problems," with an American, Mrs. Allie Low Miles (said to be an authority on affairs of the heart), at the microphone, will start from 1ZB on February 9, 2ZB on February 23, 3ZB on March 9, and 4ZB on March 23, the broadcast being at 2.15 p.m. every Friday. : + * * ROM the long-sealed tombs of Egypt. " to the middle of the Atlantic, "The Hawk," a new thriller from 1ZB, travels the way to the "perfect crime," according | to radio crime experts. It goes further, and ends up in the United States, with Scotland Yard tagging along to keep the hero company. "The Hawk" comes from 1ZB every Tuesday and Thursday at 5.0 p.m. | fs Eo * * characters of Charles Dickens ate still vitally alive but living in a vastly different age. They have become radio personalities: Bill Sykes, Fagin, Bumble the parish beadle, and the Artful Dodger make their radio appearances in "Oliver Twist," heard every Tuesday evening from 2ZA ‘at 8.45.