Wednesday, January 8

New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 393, 3 January 1947, Page 30

Wednesday, January 8

W AUCKLAND I 650 ke. 462 m. 6. 0,7.0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS 9. 0 Music As You Like It 9.30 Current Ceiling Prices 10. 0 Devotions: Rev. A. E. Walte 10.20 For My Lady: BBC Personalities: Big Ben 41. 0 Musical Highlights 41.15-11.30 Music While /Yot Work 42. 0 Commentary on the Plunket Shield Cricket Match: Auckland v. Canterbury at Eden Park 2. O0p.m. Music and Romance | 3.30 From Our Sample Box 3.45 Music While You Work 4.15 Light Music 5. 0-85.30 Children’s Hour 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreel 7. 0 Local News Service 7.15 Book Review 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME DOROTHY BROWNING (piano) Sonata in E Minor, Op.'7 Grieg A Studio Recital 7.51 Queensland State String Quartet Quartet No. 11 in D vee itt 8.11 DOROTHY HELMRICH, Australian mezzo-soprano, with Frederick Page at the piano Song Cycle ‘"‘The Poet’s Love" Schumann A Studio Recital 8.51 Joseph Szigeti (violin) "Capriol"’ Suite Warlock 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.19 Australian Commentary 9.30 Recital for Two ; 470. 0 Masters in Lighter Mood 411. 0 London News and Home News from Britain 11.20 CLOSE DOWN it NN7> Sy? AUCKLAND 880 ke. 341 m. 5. 0-5.30 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After Dinner Music 8. 0° Bands and Ballads 9. 0 Classical Recitals, featuring Raoul Koczalski Etudes, Op. 10 . Chopin 10. 0 With the Comedians 40:30 Close down (DzZiy) Seektane 5. 0-5.30 p.m. Melody Fair: Music and Song for Everybody 6. 0 Orchestral Hour 7. 0 Listeners’ Own Programme 470. 0 Clouse down 2} Y $70 ke. 526m. 6. 0,7.0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS Breakfast session 9, 0 Ted Steele’s. Novatones 9.15 Voices in Harmony 9.30 current Ceiling Prices 9.32 Morning Star: Paul Robeson (bass) 9.40 Music While You Work 40.10 Devotional Service 10.26 Quiet Interlude 10.28-19.30 Time Signals 410.40 For My Lady: "the Corsican Brothers" 41. 0 A.C.E. TALK: "Bottling Fruit" ‘ 11.15 Variety 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. Op.m. CLASSICAL HOUR Music by Rimsky-Korsakov The Symphonic Poem (4th of series) Antar Capriccio Espagnol "The Golden Cockerel’"’ Suite 3. 0 Mr. Meredith Walks Out 3.15 Comedy’ Time 3.24 Health in the Home 3.28 to 3.30 Time Signals 3.30 vars While You Work 4.0 Vari 4.16 , Scottish Listeners

4.30 Children’s Hour: ‘Coral Island" and "If Pigs Had Wings" 5. 0-5.30 At Close of Afternoon 6. 0 Dinner Music 30 LONDON NEWS 45 BBC Newsreel 0 Local News Service 15 Gardening Expert 30 EVENING PROGRAMME Boston Promenade Orchestra Entry of the Boyards Halvorsen Jealousy" Gade 7.40 Studio Programme featuring Ballads by JOAN AKERS (contralto) and CHARLES WILLIAMSON (tenor) s "Mr. Whistler Meets Mr. Wilde" A Satirical Play by John Gundry NZBS Production 8.28 Songs in a Farmhouse Traditional Songs, arranged by Fred Austin and sung by The BBC Singers, conducted by Leslie Woodgate BBC Programme 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.19 Australian Commentary 9.30 Send for Paul Temple Again. A new series of extracts from the case book of a famous detective BBC Programme 10.10 Harry James and his Orchestra 10.30 Songs by Dinah Shore 10.45 Red Norvo’s Sextette 11. 0 London News and Home News from Britain 11.20 CLOSE DOWN 2N7 WELLINGTON 840 ke. 357 m. 5. 0-5.30 p.m. Records at Random 6. 0 Dance Music 6.30 Songs for Sale 6.45 Rhythm in Retrospect 7. 0 -Revets in Rhythm 8. 0 SYMPHONIC MUSIC State Opera House Orchestra, conducted by Von Schillings "Manfred" Overture, Op. 115 ‘ Schumann 8.12 London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Ww alter Symphony No. 7 in C Major Schubert 9. 1. Jascha Heifetz (violin) and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Toscanini Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 Brahms 9.37 GRAND OPERA Music by Wagner : Philharmonie conduc> ted by Furtwangler Prelude and Love Death ("Tristan") 9.53 Lauritz Melchior (tenor) O king (‘‘Tristan’’) Rienzi’s Prayer (‘*Rienzi’’) 10. 0 Light Concert 10.30 Close down 6. 6. 7. 7. 7

227 [D) WELLINGTON 990 ke. 303 m. 7. Op.m. Accent on Rhythm 7.20 "Hills of Home’: Eileen Finlay’s Story of Storm Boyd and His Family 7.33 Music from the Movies BBC Programme 8. 0 Premiere: The Week’s New Releases 8.30 Orchestral Nights 9. 2 "The Man Who Could Make Nightmares," by Victor Andrews NZBS Production 9.30 A Poung Man with a Swing Band 10. 0 Close down | 2Y7 (53 Nel NEW PLYMOUTH 810 kc. 370m. 6.30 p.m. An Hour for the Childreu: "Birth of. the’ British Nation" . 7.30 Sports Session 8. 0 Concert Session 8.30 "Fortunate Wayfarer" 8.42 Concert session 10.0 Close down 4H a oy =e m. 7. 0, 8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS Breakfast. Session 9. 0 Morning Star 9.15 A.C.E. Talk: "Books for | Those in Their Teens" 9.30-9.32 Current Ceiling Prices 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch Music 5. 0 Waltz Time 5.15-5.30 For the Children 6. 0 "Bulldog Drummond" 6.15 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC N®wsreel 7. 0 Hawke’s Bay Stock Market Reports 7.15 After Dinner Music 7.30 "Rebecca" 8. 0 "Those Were The Days" Pre 1914, when Dancing really Was dancing, with Harry Davidson and His Orchestra 8.30 Let’s Dance! 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.39 Australian Commentary 9.30 Operatic and Orchestral Programme: tadlengyy Symphony Orchestra *-Russien and Ludmilla" Overture Glinka Lauritz Melchior (tenor) O king ("Tristan and Isolde’’) Wagner Felix Weingartner and the I.ondon Philharmonic Orchestra Eleven Viennese Dances Beethoven 410. 0 Close down

2 NaN PY, 920 ke. 327 m. 7.0 pm. "Halliday and Son": | Cecil Rhodes 7.15 Light Music 7.25 2YN Sports Review 7.46 "Dad and Dave"’ 8. 0 Light Symphony Orchestra conducted by Haydn Wood Shepherd’s Song Like to the Damask Rose Elgar 8.11 Dora Labbette. (soprano) My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair Haydn She Wandered Down the Mountain Side Clay 8.20 "Peacock Pie’ A selection of verses. from the book by Walter de la Mare with Music by Roger Quilter, played by BBC Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves BBC Programme 8.43 "Starlight"; featuring Tommy Handley BBC Programme 9. 7 Bulldog Drummond in "Challenge" 9.30 Band Music The R.A.F. Coastal Command Band The Old Grenadier Mighty Malta Archibdid Joyce BBC Programme 9.46 Massed Brass Bands conducted by Denis Wright The Navy on Parade arr. King 9.52 Raymond Newell (baritone) | The Devil of the Flora Dee Mendelssohn 9.55 Band of H.M. Life Guards conducted by Lieutenant Lemoine The Bride Elect Sousa 10. 0 Close down QJ GISBORNE 7. Op.m, After Dinner Music 7.15 "Dad and Dave" 7.30 Local Sporting Review 7.45 Variety 8. 0 Music Lovers’ Hour 9. 2 The Door. with the Seven Locks 917 "Samson and Delilah" Selections 9.30 Merrie England 9.42 Weltzland ‘ , 10. 0 Close down 3 CHRISTCHURCH 720 ke. 416 m. 6. 0,7.0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS 9. 0 Morning Programme 9.30 Current "Ceiling Prices ‘ Conrad Thibault (baritone) 9.45 Musie While You Work 10.10 For My Lady: Queens of Song: Lucy Monroe (U.S.A.) 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Excerpts from "fa Traviata" 11.0 A Contrast in Waltzes 11.15-11.30 Light Orchestras 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. 0 pm. Music While You Work 2.30 Songtime: Allan Jones 2.45 Xavier Cugat and his Wal-dorf-Astoria’ Orchestra 3.0 CLASSICAL HOUR With the Romantics Octet in E Flat Major, Op. 20 Mendelssohn Polonaise No. 5 in F Sharp Minor, Op, 44 Chopin 4.0 Operetta

4.30 Nocturnes 5. 0-5.30 Children’s Hour 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreel 7. 0 Local News Service 7.15 Addington Stock Market — Report 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent Overture in the Italian Style Schubert 7.38 FROM THE STUDIO Music by Schubert MARJORIE ROBERTSON (piano) Impromptu in A Flat, Op, 142, No. 2 impromee in E Flat, Op. 90, sieiaee ‘ HODGINS (mezzo-soprano) The Trout Thee, Love, I Greet Night and Dreams The Muse’s Gift 8. 0 Riddick String Orchestra Conducted by Kathleen Riddick Serenade for Strings Berkeley Sinfonetfa, Op. 52 Roussel BBC Programme 8.22 IRIS MOXLEY (contralto) Arabian Song Cycle Desert Love Song When Tired Caravans Are Resting I Have Hung My Tent in Crimson Fulfilment It is the Sunset Hour Spross From the Studio 8.34 Menuhin with the London | Symphony Orchestra concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 26 Bruch 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.19 Australian Commentary 9.30 The Halle Orchestra,. conducted by John Barbirolli Symphony No, 5 in D Major Vaughan Williams 10.10 Shakespeare’s Characters: Capulet BBC Programme 10.36 Music, Mirth and Melody 411. 0 London News and Home News from Britain 11.20 CLOSE DOWN NZ CHRISTCHURCH 1200 ke. 250 m. B. 0-5.30 p.m. Light Music 6. 0 Concert Platform 6.30 Melodious Orchestral Music y Theatreland in Music and Song s 7.30 "Hopalong Cassidy" 7.439 Cecily Courtneidge and Jeck Hulbert 8. 0 Recital for Two 8.30 Funny Side Up 8.45 Songs by Men 9. 1 Dancing Time 9.30 Swing Session 10. 0 Evening Serenade 10.30 Close down Sziz ee ] 7. 0, 8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS _ Breakfast Session 9.0 Let the Bands Play 9.30 Current Ceiling Prices 9.33 Seldom Heard 40. 0 Devotional Service 10.20 To-day’s Star: Connie Boswell 10.30 Roy Smeck Entertains 10.45 ACE. TALK: ‘‘Bottling Fruit’

a --- oa DOMINION WEATHER FORECASTS 7.15 a.m., 12.30 and 9.1 p.m.; 14YA, "2YA, SYA, 4YA, 2YH, 3ZR and 4ayz WELLINGTON CITY WEATHER FORECAST 2YD: 10.0 p.m.

COMMENTARIES ON THE THIRD CRICKET TEST, M.C.C. v. AUSTRALIA & 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 pm. a A SE Sa ES SE SS SSR EER LY

11. 0-11.30 Sing While You Work > 42. 0 Luneh Music 1.30 p.m. Orchestras and Ballads 2. 0 "They Lived to Tell the Tale’: The Shark’s Teeth 2.15 Kay Kyser Time 2.30 Stars of Variety 9.0 ‘The Philadelphia OrchesSyrian Domestica Strauss 3.39 Feature Time 4.0 "Sparrows of London" 4.14 Strings 4.30 American Dance Bands and Vocalists 5. 0 Children’s Hour: ‘Coral Island" 6.15-5.30 Accent on Rhythm 6.0 "The Rajah’s Racer" 6.14 Easy to Listen To 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreel 7..9 Danceland’s Favourite Melodies 7.46 "Rebecca" 8.10 Personalities on Parade 9.0 Overseas and N.Z, News 9.19 Australian Commentary 9.30 Melody Mixture: A light programme arranged and played by Jack Byfields and His Orchestra With James Bell at the organ ; 10, 0 Close down

D SEK 6. 0,7.0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS 9. 0 Serenades 9.15 Theatre Organ 9.30 Current Ceiling Prices 9.32 Music While You Work 70.20 Devotional Service 10.40 For My Lady: "To Have and to Hold" 11. 0 Variety 12. 0 Lunch Music 2O0p.m. Waltz Time 2.165 #$ Nancy Evans Sings 2.30 Music While You Work 3.0 #£=Band Stand $316 Songs of N.Z. 3.30 CLASSICAL HOUR Featuring. Piano Quintets Quintet in A Major Dvorak Symphonic Variations, Op, 78 Dvorak 4.30 Cafe Music 5. 0 Children’s Hour 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreel | 7. 0 "So You’re Sending Your Child to Secondary School," by J. D. MeDonald 7.415 Our Motoring Commentator 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME Columbia Vocal Gem DORIAN: Let’s Have a Chorus >

7.40 Sporting Life: cage 3 s Superstitions 7.52 Lew Stone and His Band On Your Toes 8. 0 Songs from the Shows Featuring Victoria Sladen, Roderick Jones and other artists with the BBC Revue Orchestra and Chorus 8.29 9.0 9.19 9.30 10. 0 BBC Programme _ "Goodnight, Ladies" Overseas and N.Z, News Australian Commentary "Star for To-night" Rric Winstone and His Orchestra 10.14 Carl Barriteau and His Orchestra 10.30 Erskine Butterfield and his Orchestra 10.45 Glenn Miller and the Band of the Army Air Forces Training Command 11.0 London News and Home News from Britain 11.20 CLOSE DOWN LENVO) DUNEDI 1140 ke. 263 m, 5. 0-56.30 p.m. Strict Tempo Dance Music 6.0 Favourite Vocalists 6,30 Light Orchestras 6.45 For the Pianist 7.0 Popular Music 7.30 Spotlight on Music

8.0 SYMPHONIC PROGRAMME Orchestral Works by Edward Elgar (8th of series) The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adrian Boult Enigma Variations, Op, 36 8.24 Dora Labbette, Harold Williams, Hubert Eisdell, Dennis Noble, and Robert Easton, with the Halle. Chorus By the Wayside ("The Aposties’’) , 8.32 Beatrice Harrison (’cello) and the New Symphony Orchestra concerto $3 A Century of French Music Roussel and Poulenc Lamoureux Concert Orchestra Symphony in G Minor Roussel 9.25 Francis Poulenc (piano) and Straram Concert Orchestra Aubade-cConeerto for Piano and 18 Instruments Poulenc 9.43 Music from Mozart’s Operas "The Magic Flute" The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Toscanini Overture | 9.51 Joan Cross (soprano) Ah; ’Tis Gone 9.55 Oscar Natzke (bass) O Isis and Osiris 10. 0 This Week’s Featured Composer: Falla 10.30 Close down [aN7z2 _VERCARGIEE) 7. 0, 8.0 am. LONDON NEWS Breakfast Session 9. 0 Morning Variety 9.20 Devotional Service 9.30-9.32 Current Ceiling Prices

12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch Music 5. 0 Children’s Hour: "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’"’ (final episode) 5.15-5.30 These Were Hits 6. 0 "The White Cockade" 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreeél 7. 0 After Dinner Music 7.30 "Beduvatiet"’ 7.52 Negro Spirituals 8. 0 Music of Vaughan Williams Halle Orchestra: Conductor, Jobn Barbirolli Symphony No. 5 in D Major BBC Orchestra with Soloists: Conductor, Sir Henry J. Wood Serenade to Music London Philharmonic Orchestra: Conductor, The Composer Facade Suite No. 2: Spanish Night and Old Sir Faulk 9.0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 All Time Hit Parade, conducted by Frank Beadle 10. 0 Close down Re 1010 ke. 297m. 6. Op.m. An Hour with You 7.0 The Smile Family 8.0 Especially for You 9. 0 Mid-week Function 9.30 Cowboy Round-up 10. 0 Tunes of the Times 10.30 New Releases 41. 0 Close down

Wednesday. January 8

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

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

1ZB nm ne MORNING: 6. 0 London News 9. 0 Aunt Daisy's . Morning Recipe Session 9.45 We Travel the Friendly Road with Uncle Tom 10. 0 My Husband’s Love 10.15 Three Generations 10.30 Ma Perkins 10.45 Personality Programme 11.10 Shopping Reporter (Sally) AFTERNOON: 12. 0 Lunch Music 1.45 1ZB Happiness Ciub (Joan) 2.0 The Life of Mary Southern 2.30 Home Service Session (Jane) 4. 0 Women’s World (Marina) 6. 0 Travelling with Aunt Daisy EVENING: 6. 0 if You Please, Mr. Parkin 6.30 Chuckles with Jerry ‘en Early Days in N.Z. 7.15 Officer Crosby 7.30 A Case for Cleveland 7.45 Popular Fallacies 8. 0 Nick Carter 8.15 Hollywood Holiday 8.45 Radio Editor: Kenneth Melvin 9. 0 Passing Parade: The Leper Priest 10. 0 Behind the Microphone (Rod Talbot) 11. 0 Melodies to Remember 11.15 Dance Music 12. 0 Close down

27ZB WELLINGTON 1130 ke. 265 m. MORNING: 6. 0 London News 9. 0 Aunt Daisy’s Morning Recipe Session 9.30 Current Ceiling Prices 10. 0 My Husband’s Love 10.15 Music While You Work 10.30 Ma Perkins 10.45 Personality Programme 11.10 Shopping Reporter (Suzanne) AFTERNOON: 12. 0 Mid-day Melody Menu 2. 0 The Life of Mary Southern 2.30 The Home Service Session (Daphne) 3. 0 Waltz Time 3.15 Favourites in Song 3.30 With the Classics 4. 0 Women’s World (Peggy) 445 With the Bands 5. 0 Travelling with Aunt Daisy 5.15 Treasure Isiand EVENING: 6. 0 If You Please, Mr. Parkin 6.30 Dramatic Interlude 7. 0 Early Days in N.Z, 7.15 Officer Crosby 7.30 A Case for Cleveland 7.45 So the Story Goes 8. 0 Nick Carter 8.15 Hollywood Holiday 8.45 King of Quiz 9. 0 Big Ben 9.4 Passing Parade: The Last Days of Saint Pierre 10.30 Hits from the Shows 411. 0 Dancing with the Roseland 12. 0 Close dawn

3ZB CHRISTCHURCH 1430 ke. 210 m. MORNING: 6. 0 London News a. Breakfast Club with Happi ] 9. 0 Aunt Daisy’s Morning Recipe session 9.30 Current Ceiling Prices 10. 0 My Husband’s Love 10.16 Movie Magazine 10.30 Ma Perkins 10.45 Personality Programme 11.10 Shopping Reporter (Elizabeth Anne) AFTERNOON: 12. O0- Lunchtime Fare 2.0 The Life of Mary Southern 2.30 The Home Service session (Molly) 4. 0 Women’s World (Joan) 4.45 Children’s session 5.0 #£Travelling with Aunt Daisy EVENING: 6. 0 If You Please, Mr. Parkin 6.15 Late Recordings 6.30 Gems from the Opera 7. @ Early Days in N.Z. 7.15 Officer Crosby 7.30 A Case for Cleveland 7.45 Two Destinies 8. 9 Nick Carter 8.20 Hollywood Holiday 8.45 Popular Fallacies 9. 0 Passing Parade: The Holy Shroud 10. 0 3ZB’s Sports session (The Toff) 10.30 Reserved 11. 0 Variety Programme 12. 0 Close down

4ZB 1310 a ae ™. * MORNING: 6. 0 London News 6. 5 Start the Day Right with 4ZB’s Breakfast Session 6.30 Morning Meditation 7.36 Morning Star 9. 0 Aunt Daisy’s Morning Recipe Session ‘ 9.30 Current Ceiling Prices 10. 0 My Husband’s Lave 10.15 Little Theatre 10.30 Ma Perkins | 10.45 The Greenlawns People , 11.30 Shopping Reporter (Jessie McLennan) 12. 0 Lunch Hour Tunes AFTERNOON: 2.0 #£'The Life of Mary Southern 2.30 Home _ Service Session (Wyn) 3.0 Summertime Songs 3.30 Melody Time 4.0 Women’s World (Alma Oaten) 5. 0 Travelling with Aunt Daisy EVENING: 6. 0 If You Please, Mr. Parkin 6.30 Souvenir 7.0 Early Days in N.Z. 7.15 Officer Crosby 7.30 A Case for Cleveland 7.45 Two Destinies 8.5 Nick Carter 8.20 Hollywood Holiday 8.45 The Flying 55 9. 3 Passing Parade: Has Your Ship Come In 10. O Dramatic Interlude 10.15 Hits from the Shows 10.30 Adventures of Peter Chance : 12. 0 Close down

22, PALMERSTON Nth, 1400 ke. 214 m. MORNING: 6. 0 London News 6. 5 Reveille 7.0 Music for Breakfast 8. 0 Musical Clock 9. 0 Good Morning Request Session / 9.30 Current Ceiling Prices 9.32 Close down ~ EVENING: 6. 0 Music at Tea Time 6.30 New Songs for Sale 6.45 Mittens 7. 0 Early Days in N.Z, 7.18 If You Please, Mr, Parkin 7.30 Man in the Dark 7.465 A Case for Cleveland 8.5 The Life of Mary Southern 8.20 Hollywood Holiday age Romance in Rhythm 9. 1 Passing Parade: Have You Got a Match? 9.30 Motoring Session with Harold Tatterfield 10. 0 Close down

From Station 4ZB at 10,15 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays are old favourites under the title of Hits from the Shows.

2ZA offers New Songs for Sale at half past six to-night. mn ~ a At 845 p.m. 2ZB’s fight royally entertaining session "King of Quiz." * ae * One of the outstanding ZB features is Passing Parade’s | half hour dramatization backed by documentary evidence: Every Wednesday at 9.0 p.m. from all the Commercial stations. iin er |