THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 301, 29 March 1945, Page 4

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

HE best way we can indicate what goes on in the comedy that 3YA will broadcast at 10.30 p.m. on Monday, April 2, is to reproduce the illustration the BBC published when it was heard in England-for it is another BBC production from the London Transcription Service. And perhaps the best way to indicate the quality of the story is to remind you-for you may have read it once-that it was written by H. G. Wells. It was one of his earlier stories. Pyecraft was different from other human beings, for a while (in what way, the drawing shows). It was all very well, of course, as long as Pyecraft had everything under control. But we don’t advise you to try ‘it. MONDAY E Also worth notice: 2YA, 9.40 p.m.: "When Cobb and Co. Was King." 4YA, 7.30 p.m.: ‘Peacock Pie" (de la Mare) TUESDAY HERE was a time when women were so sheltered that they would not venture into the street by themselves. Anything more daring than having the vapours in front of the vicar never entered their mind. How they would have lived in a perpetual coma if they could have visualised all that women do today, for now there are women in engi‘neering, medicine, trade, and transport, ‘to mention only a few of the callings. Recently New Zealand appointed a woman bacteriologist for service overseas with the Army, and it is on the subject of Bacteriology for Women that Marjorie Fuller will speak from 2YA at 11.0 a.m., Tuesday, April 3. Also worth notice: 1YX, 9.0 p.m.: ‘ London" Symphony (Vaughan-Williams ) 3YA, 6.45 p.m.: Talk: "Birth of a Nation." WEDNESDAY N New Zealand the number of dental fillings and artificial teeth required is probably greater than anywhere else in the world. This is a dentist’s paradise. Research work is proceeding, however, which may one day help New Zealand to lose her unenviable reputation. A substance that_has long been known to have an effect on teeth is fluorine, but because an excess of this causes "mottled" enamel and bone decay scientists have shied away from it. To-day research is discovering helpful qualities in minute amounts. But for more information on this subject listeners should tune in to 2YA on Wednesday, April 4, at 11.15 a.m. Also worth_ notice: 2YC, 8.0 p.m.: Symphony No. 39 (Mozart). 3YA, 9.30 p.m.: Symphony No. 4 (Sibelius). THURSDAY , TATION 2YD’s new serial, which begins next week, is a new adaptation of Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge which has not been broadcast here before. It will be heard every Monday and Thursday (at 9.35 p.m. on Mondays, 9.30 on Thursdays). Barnaby Rudge was published in 1841 as part of Master Hurnphrey’s Clock. This was the earlier of Dickens’ two historical novels (the other was Tale of Two Cities), its period being that of the Gordon riots in 1780. Also worth notice: 2YC, 8.0 p.m.: Clarinet Qifintet (Brahms). 4YA, 9.25 p.m.: Violin Concerto (Bloch).

FRIDAY HAT the Brains ‘Trust will be specialising in matters Welsh next week (at 8.28 p.m., Friday, April 6, Station 2YA) is obvious enough from the names of the speakers, which you may find in the appropriate programme page. Lady Cary Evans is a daughter of Earl Lloyd George; Captain Griffiths (a former Lord Mayor of Cardiff) is known in most of the world’s seaports as "Cap-

tain Jim’; and Captain Meredyth is a Canadian writer and alpine sportsman of Welsh origin. They will discuss premonitions, the housewife and the humdrum life, and the characteristics of Welshmen, among other topics. Also worth notice: 2YA, 3.0 p.m.: Play: ‘Rembrandt Was Right." 3YA, 7.30 p.m.: "Cameo for Manxmen." SATURDAY ALISON PETTLE, who recorded the talk for the BBC that will be heard from 2YA on Saturday, April 7, is the women’s editor of a leading London daily; she wanted to know how the women of France, Belgium and Holland had been living during the war years, and she recently flew across to find out. In her conversation with the women of these countries she discovered that it was not at all as she had imagined; a formidable barrier separated them from her--four lost, irretrievable years. For her interesting report, tune in to 2YA at 11.0 a.m, Also worth notice: 1YX, 9.12 p.m.: "Emperor" Concerto (Beethoven). 3YL, 8.11 p.m,: Piano Concerto No, 3 (Beete hoven). SUNDAY = ‘THESE SERVED MANKIND," a short series in commemorati of certain notabilities who died during 1944, will begin on Sunday, April 8, at 2YA. The session will comprise tributes to some of the authors, artists, scientists, musicians, doctors, sportsmen, clergy, men of affairs, and others. In these days especially, news of the passing of many noteworthy people is not readily available to the public, and information about them is sometimes hard to secure. For some years 2YA has, in its feature "These Served Mankind," presented a survey of the careers of the famous. Also worth notice: 2YA, 8.5 p.m.: Opera ‘Falstaff’? (Verdi). 4YA, 9.30 p.m.: Play: "It’s in the Stars."