Friday, January 3

New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 392, 27 December 1946, Page 34

Friday, January 3

ie ae 6. 0, 7.0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS 9. 0 With a Smile and a Song 10. O Devotions: Mr. C. W. Maitland 40.20 For My Lady: "The House That ‘Margaret Built" 41. O To Lighten the Task 41.15-11.30 Music While You Work 12. 0 Commentary on the Plunket Shield Match, Otago Vv. Auckland at Eden Park 2. O0p.m. From Our Library 3.35 In Varied Mood 3.45 Music While You Work 4.15 Light Music 5. 0-56.30 Children’s Hour: Tales by Uncle Remus 6.15 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreel | 2.8 Local News Service | 7.15 Sports Talk by Gordon Hutter 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME Toscanini and the Philharmonic "Symphony Orchestra of New York Variations on a Theme by Haydn (St. Antoni Chorale) Brahms 7.48 Marian Anderson (contralto) with Male Chorus and the Philadelphia Orchestra Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 Brahms 8. 2 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Moldau Smetana 8.14 STEWART HARVEY (baritone) Anakreon’s Grave Sent Love 7 The Minstrel Weryla’s Song To Rest, To Rest Wolf A Studio Recital 8.26 Louis Kentner (piano) Concert Studies in F Minor and D Flat Major Liszt 8.34 VALERIE ISBISTER (mezzo-soprano) If There Were Dreams -to Sell Ireland Florian’s Song Godard Music I Heard With You Hageman What’s in the Air To-day Eden A Studio Recital 8.46 Constant Lambert and the Sadler’s Wells Orchestra Ballet Suite ‘Les Patineurs" Meyerbeer arr. Lambert 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Georges Thill (tenor) Medje — G ounod 9.34 Heifetz (violin) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto No. 4 in D Minor Vieuxtemps 10.0 "How to Blow Your Own Trumpet" BBC Programme 40.26 Music, Mirth and Melody 41. 0 London News and Home News. from Britain 11.20 CLOSE DOWN WN? > AUCKLAND i 880 kc. 341 m. 5. 0-5.30 p.m. Tea Time Tunes 7.0 #£=After Dinner Music 8.0 Variety Show 9. 0 Songs of the Islands 9.16 Light Opera 9.30 Norman Cloutier and the Mastersingers 10. 0 Players and Singers 410.30 Close down |

LUCSIM) fee tate 5. 0-56.30 p.m. Musical Parade:. Music, Song and Comedy 6. 0 Variety Hour : fe Evening Melodies: a Mus- ' feal Entertainment for -the Family 7.30 "This Sceptred Isle’’: | Wales 8. 0 Listeners’ Own Classical Corner 10. 0 Close down | ; D7 /a\ WELLINGTON 570 ke. 526 m. 6. 0,7.0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS Breakfast Session 9. 0 Melody Mixture: Light Orchestral and Organ Music 9.30 Morning Star: Alexander Brailowsky 9.40 Music While You Work 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Quiet Interlude 10.40 For My Lady: Musical comedy Stars: Elsie Randolph (England) 11. 0 Commentaries on Plunket Shield Cricket 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. 0 p.m. CLASSICAL HOUR The Concerto (14th of series) Double Concerto in A Minor, Op. 102 Variations on a Theme by Paganini Ever Softer Grows My Slumber : The Smith So Blue Thine Eyes Brahms 3. 0 "Inspector Hornleigh Investigates"’ 3.15 Variety 3.35 Music While You Work 4.0 Ballad Concert 4.30 Children’s Hour: ‘Atlantic Passage,’’ Chapter I "Broken Stowage," a story for Boys, by Andrew Elliot 5. 0-5.30 At Close of Afternoon 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreel 732 Local News Service 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME "I Pulled Out a Plum’: "Gramophan" presents some of the Latest Recordings 8. 0 JEAN FEARON . (contralto) Skye Boat Song arr. Lawson An Eriskay Love Lilt The Road to the Isles arr. Kennedy-Fraser A Studio Recital

8.12 National Symphony Orchestra The Three Elizabeths Coates 8.28 Shakespeare’s Characters: "Titania": One of a series of BBC Productions, introducing appreciations of famous figures from Shakespeare’s plays Produced by Mary Hope Allen 9..0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 For the Bandsman Band of H.M. Irish Guards Three Irish Dances John and Sam Overture Ansell

Fairy Aviation Band, conducted by Harry Mortimer Bohemia Wright BBC Programme 10. 0 Rhythm on Record Ccompered by ‘Turntable’ 11. 0 London News and Home News from Britain 11.20 CLOSE DOWN | WiC WELLINGTON 5. 0-5.30 p.m. Records at Random 6. 0 Dance Music 6.30 Songs for Sale 6.45 Accent on Rhythm BBC Programme 27. 9 Revels in Rhythm 8. 0 Edmundo Ros and his Band 8.30 Melody Lingers On 9. 0 SONATA PROGRAMME Sonatas for Violin and Piano (10th of series) Fritz Kreisler (violin) and Franz Rupp (piano) Sonata-:No, 2 in A, Op. 12, No. 2 Beethoven 9.24 Noel Mewton Wood (piano) Sonata No, 1 in C, Op. 24 ~ Weber 9.45 Church Music of the Polyphonic School Palestrina Dijon Cathedral Choir From the Mass ‘‘Assumpta est Maria" 10. 0 Light Concert 10.30 Close down [27D _ Merete" 7. Op.m. Comedyland 7.30 Ye Olde Time Music Hall 7.43 With a Smile and a Song: a session with Something for All 8.25 "Krazy Kapers" 9.2 Stars of the Concert Hall 9.20 "To Have and to Hold" 9.45 Tempo di Valse 10. 0 Close down +Y4B} NEW PLYMOUTH ~_ 810 ke. 370m. 8. Op.m. Concert Programme 9.15 "Dad and Dave’’ 9.30 Concert Programme oO Close down

LGN tn) nr lee 7. 0, 8.0 am. LONDON NEWS Breakfast Session 9.0-9.30 Morning Programme 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch Music 5. 0 Salon Music 5.12-5.30 ‘Mother Ganga"

6.15 Sports Review: Hawke’s Bay Sporting Fixtures for the coming week-end discussed by our Sports Editor 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreel y Hawke’s Bay Stock Market Report 7.415 "Kidnapped" 7.30 Screen Snapshots 8. 0 With a Smile ‘and a Song 8.30 Your Dancing Date: Harry James and his Orchestra 9.0 Overseas and N.Z, News 9.30 Entertainers on the Air 9.50 "House of Shadows" 10. 0 Close down WAN EU, 920 ke. 327 m. 7. Op.m. To-morrow’s Sports Fixtures "Hopalong Cassidy" 7.30 Light Music 8. 0 Alfredo and His Orchestra Paganini Lehar 8.14 Grand Symphony Orchestra "South of the Alps" Suite Fischer 8.20 "Appointment with Fear’’: The Curse of the Bronze Lamp BBC Programme 8.49 Alexander Brailowsky (piano) Rondo a Capriccio in G Major Beethoven 9. 1 Grand Opera Favourites London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Constant Lamber "Orpheus in the Underworld" 9.22 Grand Symphony Orches- | | Overture Offenbach 9.10 Rudolf Bockelmann (baritone) Toreador Song Bizet 9.14 Jeannette MacDonald (soprano) Waltz Song Gounod 9.18 Heddle Nash (tenor) Questa O Quella Verd! tra Madame Butterfly Puccin! 9.30 Lauritz Melchior (tenor) Lohengrin’s Farewell Wagnes 9.42 Blue Hungarian Band 9.48 Memories of Hawali 10. 0 Close down ) 22S) GISBORNE 980 kc. 306 m. 7. Op.m. After Dinner Music 7.15 "Tradesmen’s Entrance" 7.30 Variety 8.0 Light Concert Programme 8.30 BBC Programme 9.2 Benilamipo Gigli (tenor) 9.20 London Symphony Orchestra 9.32 Comedyland 9.45 Dance Music 10. 0 Close down

IS NY/ CHRISTCHURCH 720 ke. 416 m. 6. 0,7.0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS 9. 0 Morning Programme 9.30 Foden’s Motor Works Band 9.45 Music While You Work 10.10 For My Lady: Famous Pianists: Stanislaus Niedzielski (Poland) 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 American Orchestral Music 11. O Arrangements for Two Pianos 11.15-11.30 Folksongs and Dances 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. Op.m. Music While You Work 2.30 Operetta 2.45 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra 3. 0 CLASSICAL HOUR Symphony No, 1 in E Minor, Op, 39 Sibelius 4. 0 Instrumental Ensembles 4.30 "Those Were the Days" 5. 0-5.30 Children’s Hour 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreel 7. 0° Local News Service 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME National Symphony Orchestra. of England conducted by Anatole Fistoulari "Mignon" Overture Thomas 7.39 TUI K. RICHARDS (mezzosoprano) Songs by Roger Quilter Fair House of Joy Slumber Song Maidens Blush and Night Piece from Song Cycle "To Julia" A Studio Recital 7.51 Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin (pianos) Suite No, 2 Rachmaninoff 8.10 "The Written Word: Tho Development of the English Novel: The’ Brontes and George Eliot" BBC Programme 8.25 Christchurch String Group of the National Orchestra, conducted by Harry Ellwood Suite for Strings Sinding, arr. pune Six Pieces Lully Prelude in G Minor Rachmaninoff From the Studio 8.55 Webster Booth (tenor) O Vision Entrancing ("Esmeralda’’) Thomas 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Berlioz and His Music 10.0 The Masters in Lighter Mood 11. 0 London News and Home News from Britain 11.20 CLOSE DOWN SYL wae 5. 0-5.30 p.m. Light Music 6. 0 "Departure Delayed" 6.14 Choirs and Choruses 6.30 Light Orchestras and Bale lads 7. 0 Tunes from the Talkies 7.30 ‘"Hopalong Cassidy" 7.43 Champagne Bubbles; Cham. pagne Galop 7.49 Aboard the Windjammer

DOMINION WEATHER FORECASTS 7.15 a.m., 12.30 and 9.1 p.m.; 1YA, "OVA, SYA, 4YA, 3ZR ‘and 4vz WELLINGTON CITY WEATHER FORECAST 2YD: 10.0 p.m.

COMMENTARIES ON THE THIRD CRICKET TEST, M.C.C. vy. AUSTRALIA ° Friday, January 3: 1YA, 2YA, 3YA, 4YA: 3.15, 6.0, 9.15, 11.15 p.m. 3ZR: 3.15 p.m. 2YH, 3ZR, 4YZ: 6.0 and 9.15 p.m.

8. 0 8.15 Strike Up the Band "The Count of Monte Cristo" (first instalment) 9. 1 9.30 "Devil" 3.43 Highlights from Opera "Owen Foster and the The Three Elizabeths Coates 10. 0 "ITMA": The BBC Show featuring Tommy Handley 10.30 Close down GREYMOUTH ISL 940 ke. 319 m. 7. 0, 8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS | Breakfast Session 9. 0 9.30 10. 0 10.20 Musle of Ireland Music While You Devotional Service To-day’s Star: Ninon Vallin Work 10.30 Waller, at the Piano and Organ 10.45 Latin Favourites 11. 0-11.30 Radio Round Up 712. 0 Lunch Music Commentaries on 1st Day of the Greymouth Trotting Club’s Meeting at Victoria Park 1.30 p.m, Listen and Relax 2. 0 Laugh Time 2.15 Let’s Be Gay 3. 0 Melodies We Love 3.30 ‘Miscellaneous Recordings 6.15-5.30 Children’s Hour: ‘Alice in Wonderland" 6.30 6.45 LONDON NEWS BBC Newsreel ;

7. 0 Listen to the Bands 7.16 Your. Cavalier: Romance Set to Black and White ma lings 7.40 From the Hit Parades 8. 0 Science at Your Service: "Beyond the Stratosphere: The Great Galaxy" 8.15 Musical Dramatizations of Famous Songs 8.30 "They Lived to Tell the Tale: Escape from Buchenwald" 8.45 The Show is Yours 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Dr. Henry Hotlips Levine and His Barefooted Dixieland Philharmonic 9.36 "Overture to Death" 10. 0 Close down DU GAN mre ie 6. 0, 7.0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS 9. 0 Light Music 9.30 Music While You Work 10.20 Devotional Service 10. 0 For My tLady: Famous Women: Baroness Mary Vetsera 11. 0-11.30 Variety 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. Op.m. Music of the Celts 2.16 Bright Stars 2.30 Musié While You Work 3. O Recital: Fritz Kreisley

3.35 CLASSICAL HOUR: Featuring ‘Cello Sonatas Sonata for *Cello and Piano Delius Quintet for Oboe and Strings Bax Eventyr Delius 4.30 Cafe Music 5. 0-56.30 Children’s Hour: "Swiss Family Robinson" 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreel 7. 0 Local News Service 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME. "Appointment with Fear" BBC Programme 8. 1 "ITMA." The Tommy Handley Show BBC Programme 8.30 "Dad and Dave" 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 The Menges Sextet Sextet in A Major, Op. 48 | Dvorak 10.0 Harry Roy and His Orch- __ estra 10.15 Woody Herman. and His Orchestra 10.30 Ted Heath and His Music 10.45 Jimmy Wilbur and His Swingtette 11. 0 London News and Home News from Britain 11.20 CLOSE DOWN

‘4INZ©) DUNEDIN 1140 ke. 263 m, 5. O p.m. Popular Bagritones 5.15-5.30 At the Theatre Organ 6.0 #£Hits of Yesterday 6.30 Light Recitals 7.0 #£="In a Sentimental Mood" 7.15 Popular Pianists 7.30 Variety 8. 0 Music by Modern British Composers: (6) Benjamin Britten ’ Boyd Neel String Orchestra "Simple Symphony 8.20 ‘The Morrison Boys’ Choir, conducted by Ivor Sims Harp: Maria Korchinska A Ceremony of Carols 8.40 Clifford Curzon and Benjamin Britten (duo-pianists) Introduction and Ronda Alla Burleska Mazurka Elegiaca 9. 1 "Alice in Wonderland," featuring well-known artists, with Orehestra and Chorus conducted by Clifford Greenwood 9.17 Variety 9.30 Dance Music 10. 0 This Week’s Featured Composer: WAGNER London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham Faust Overture 10.12 The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Stokowski Excerpts from ‘The Rhinegold" 110.30 Close down

[avg Nee 7. 0, 8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS Breakfast Session 9. 0-9.30 Morning Variety 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch Music 5. 0 Children’s Hour: "Alice i@ Wonderland" 5.15-5.30 Waltz Time 6.15 Budget of Sport from th@ Sportsman 6.30 LONDON NEWS 645 BBC Newsreel 7.10 After Dinner Music 7.30 On the Dance Floor 8.0 Favourites from Grand Opera 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Band Programme by Welle ington Waterside Silver Band — This Band won the A Grade Victory Band Contest in 1946 The Band ‘ The Epic Symphony Fletoher 9.44 Harold Williams (baritone) The Roads Beside the Sea She Walks in Beauty. Keates 9.50 The Band Joan of Arc Dennis Ravenswood March Rimmer 10. & Close down

Friday, January 3

News from London, 6.0 a.m., from the ZB’s.

Local Weather Report from the ZB’s: 7.33 am., 1.0, 9.35 p.m.

1ZB eens 280 m. MORNING: 6. 0 London News 8. 0 Aunt Daisy’s Morning Recipe session 9.45 We Travel the Friendly Road with Jasper 10. 0 My Husband’s Love 10.16 Three Generations 10.30 Ma Perkins 10.45 Personality Programme 11.10 Shopping Reporter (Sally) AFTERNOON: 12. 0 Lunch Music 2.0 #£'The Life of Mary Southern 2.30 Home’ Service session (Jane) 4.0 Women’s World (Marina) EVENING: 6. 0 Uncle Tom and His Merrymakers 6.30 Friday Nocturne 7.15 Backstage of Life 7.30 Reflections In Romance 7.45 A Man and His House 8.5 Nick Carter 8.15 Hollywood Holliday 8.45 Sporting Blood 9. & Doctor Mac 9.20 Drama of Medicine 10. 0 Sports Preview (Bill Meredith) 10.15 Hits from the Shows 11. @© Just on the Corner of Dream Street 11.15 Dance Music 12. 0 Close down

Marina of 1ZB, Peggy of 2ZB, Joan of 3ZB, and Alma of 4ZB present "Women’s World" from their respective stations at 4.0 p.m. A session of exclusive feminine interest. A A NS ce OR

| 27ZB WELLINGTON 1130 ke, 265 m. MORNING: 6.0 London News 9. 0 Aunt Daisy’s Morning Recipe Session Bi, 10. 0 My Husband’s Love 10.15 Housewives’ Quiz (Marjorie) 10.30 Ma Perkins 10.45 Personality Programmes 11.10 Suzanne, Our Shopping Reporter AFTERNOON: 12. 0 Mid-day Melody Menu a The Life of Mary Southern 2.30 Home Service Sessian (Daphne) 3. 0 Vocal Duets 3.15 Organ and Piano 3.30 With the Classics 4. 0 Women’s World (Peggy) 4.45 Band Time EVENING: 6.30 Little Theatre 7.185 Backstage of Life 7.30 Reflections In Romance 7.48 A Man and His House 3. 0 Nick Carter 8.20 Hollywood Holiday 8.45 The Stars Parade 9. 5 Doctor Mac 9.15 Drama of Medicine 9.30 Recordings 10. 0 Dancing Time 10.30 Overseas Library 411. 0 Our Feature Band 12. 0 Close down

Another re-creation from the past in tonight’s very topical presentation of Great Days in Sport. 3ZB broadcasts The Story of Don Bradman at 6.30 p.m.

3ZB CHRISTCHURCH 1430 ke. 210 m. MORNING: 6. 0 London News 8. 0 ; Breakfast Club with Happi Hil " 9. 0 Aunt Daisy’s* Morning Recipe Session 10. 0 My Hushand’s Love 10.15 Piano Parade 10.30 Ma Perkins 10.45 Personality Programme 11.10 Shopping Reporter (Elizabeth Anne) AFTERNOON: 12. 0 Lunchtime Fare 2.0 The Life of Mary Southern 2.30 Home Service Session 3. 0 Musical Programme 4.0 Women’s World (Joan) 445° Mr. Garden Man 5. 0 The Children’s Session | EVENING: 6. 0 Places and People (Teddy Grundy) 6.30 Great Days in_ Sport: Cricket; The Story ‘of Don Bradman 6.45 Junior Sports Session a. 2 Reserved 7.15 Backstage of Life 7.30 Reflections in Romance 7.45 Scrapbook 8. 5 Nick Carter 8.20 Hollywood Holida 8A5 Chuckles with ry 9. 0 Doctor Mac 9.15 Drama of Medicine 9.30 Variety 10. 0 3ZB’s Sports Session by Toff 10.15 Waltzes of the World 10.30 Of Interest to Motorists 11. 0 Variety Programme 12. 0 Close down

ALB ta ins MORNING: 6. 0 London News 6. 5 Start the Day Right with 4ZB’s Breakfast Session 6.30 Morning Meditation 7.35 Morning Star 9.,0 Aunt Daisy’s Morning Recipe Session 10. 0 My Husband’s Love 10.15 Three Generations. 10.30 Ma Perkins 10.45 The Greenlawns People 11.10 Shopping Reporter (Jessie McLennan) AFTERNOON: 412. 0 Lunch Hour Tunes 1.0 Luncheon Melodies 2.0 #£='The Life of Mary Southern 2.30 Home Service Session 3. 0 These Were Your Favour3.30 Music in the Modern Man0 Women’s World (Alma Oaten) 4.45 Juniors in Song and Story EVENING: 6.0 Bright Horizon 7.0 Reserved 7.15 Backstage of Life 7.30 Reflections in Romance 7.45 Reserved | 8. 5 Nick Carter 8.20 Hollywood Holiday 8.45 Flying 55 9.3 Doctor Mac 9.18 Drama of Medicine 10. 0 Sporting Blood 10.30 Week-end Racing and Sporting Preview (Bernie McConnell) 12. 0 Close down ;

22, PALMERSTON Nth, 1400 ke. 214 m. MORNING: London News Reveille Music for Breakfast Pack Up Your Troubles Good Morning Request Ses Close down EVENING: Music at Tea Time New Songs for Sale Pot Pourri Reserved Backstage of Life Short, Short Stories Music in the Air The Life of Mary Southern Hollywood Holiday Musical Moments Entr’acte Doctor Mac Drama of Medicine Three of a Kind Preview of the Week-end "Sport by Fred Murphy 0. 0 Close down

Medicine has its victories and gallant men sacrifice their lives in its cause. These thrilling stories make very good listening in The Drama of Medicine tonight at 9.20 p.m. from your local Commercial station, x * Sports previews of the first New Year weekend from 1ZB and 3ZB at 10.0 p.m., from 4ZB at 10.30 p.m., from 2ZA at 9.40 p.m., and from 2ZB at 8.15 tomorrow morning,