Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 295, 16 February 1945, Page 13

Items From The ZB's

"(\UT OF THE ETHER," a new session of special interest to DX’ers is broadcast each Saturday at 1.0 p.m. from 3ZB. Compiled from the diary of "Aerial," it provides listeners with information about ovérseas stations which might otherwise be known to them only as a call signal. "Aerial" is a member of the N.Z. DX Club, the All Wave-All World DX Club, Universal DX Club of America, British Long Distance Listeners’ League, Radex Club of America, and the Russian Listeners’ Club. bf }ORMERLY a Rugby referee, and also a player in many Gilbert and Sullivan operas in various parts of New Zealand, Bill Meredith, veteran sports announcer for 1ZB, does two weekly .sessions, football relays in the winter and racing forecasts and summaries. He spends a good deal of his spare time atranging .concert parties and is programme organiser for the Onehunga Orphans’ Club and some other bodies. %: % me LEASANT songs and musical items before and after the story assist "Hot Dates in History," heard from 2ZB on Saturdays at 8.45 p.m. Each episode deals with a notable event, dramatised by a picked cast. : , * Es * OR home participation, the Movie Quiz heard each Friday night at 6.30 from 2ZB uses half-a-dozen or so recordings of screen stars and orchestras featured in films during the last five years. Listeners are invited to name the singers, the film in which the item was heard, and the orchestra. In other cases tunes are played ‘and listeners are asked to name the melody and its film. A money prize and double tickets provide an incentive. a tt Pa

"MORNING MELODIES," on Mondays and Wednesdays at 10.15 from 2ZB, is a selection of songs and music designed to provide a restful morning tea interlude with a big range of variety. * * * NEW feature at 1ZB contains an ingenious idea. Produced by Arthur Collyns, it is the result of a brief plot or synopsis which is handed to two different script writers, who each build up a story. The interest lies partly in the dramatisations themselves and partly in the coritrast shown between the two variations on a single theme. For the writing of the scripts Mr. Collyns employs talent drawn from the ranks of well-known New Zealand writers and : people in public life. This session, which is entitled "One Way and Another," is heard every Monday evening from 1ZB at 7.45. be Ht ae N dramatised form, the Robert Louis Stevenson story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has come to the radio. The story is heard each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night at 8.45 from 4ZB. > * ® * FTER a rest of some weeks, "Brains Trust Junior" returned to the air at | 4ZB on a recent Saturday at 7.45 p.m. The Questionmaster is Don Donaldson, and the other participants are known as John, Harold, Barbara, and Ian.