ANZACS TELL THEIR STORY

New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 408, 18 April 1947, Page 16

ANZACS TELL THEIR STORY

Special Programmes for April 25

four New Zealanders who took part in the, campaign, will be the principal Anzac Day studio programme bfoadcast by the NZBS. Entitled Four Who Were There, it describes the Gallipoli operation, not as the staffs planned story of Anza¢, told by

it, nor as the historians have since seen it, but as the man in the ranks endured it. It is a tale, not of tactics or strategy, but of blood and sweat, heat, thirst and flies, of cold winter snows,-and wounds. Eaclt of the four voices will tell a part of the story. The first will describe the landing and the desperate fighting to maintain it through the first few days. The second will describe the period of consolidation and the struggle to maintain a foothold through the , summer months. The third will take up °the narrative at the time of the August advance, and the last speaker will describe the evacuation. This programme will be broadcast over the majn National stations at 6.40 p.m. Local Services Services of remembrance in the different centres will be broadcast by the local National stations at various times. throughout the day, and a summary of these follows. Broadcasting hours on April 25 will be from 6.0 a.m. until 10.0 p.m. Auckland’s principal service-at the Cenotaph-will be held between 11.0 a.m. and noon and will be relayed by 1YA. The Wellington service this year will be relayed (at 10.15 am.) by 2YA from the Kilbirnie R.S.A. Hall, where an address will be given by His Excellency M. Armand Gazel, Minister for France. During the service a memorial will be unveiled to members of the R.N.Z.A.F. who fell in the late war. A special Anzac programme for children will also be broadcast in the Children’s Hour, later in the day. y : There will be three services for Christchurch listeners. The first will be broadcast by 3YA from the New Brighton Soldiers’ Memorial at 10.0 a.m., and the Christchurch Citizens’ Anzac Day service at King Edward Barracks will be relayed at 2.30 p.m, In the evening the annual Toc H and'R.S.A. joint service and Rededication, and the Ceremony of Grand Light, will be held in Christchurch Cathedral. .This also will be broadcast by 3YA, the relay beginning at 7.30 p.m. ‘ At 2.0 p.m. Dunedin’s Anzac Day Parade to the Cenotaph in Queen’s Gardens will be broadcast by 4YA, and the Town Hall service will be relayed an hour later. Stations 2YH and 2YN will each present half an hour of Ana music (from 10.30-11.0 a.m. and 8 | 9.0 p.m. respectively), and 2YH will also relay a service of commemoration at 2.30 p.m. Frém Greymouth, an Anzac. Day. concert, organised by the Greymouth Branch of the R.S.A., will be broadcast by 3ZR, beginning at 9.0 p.m. Invercargill’s Station 4¥Z has divided its own special programme into two half-hour sessions this year-"Memories of 1914-18," presented between 9,0 and 9,30 am., and "Memories of 1939-45," ‘between 10.30 and 11.0, The Invercargill Anzac service will be relayed ‘at 3.0 p.m., and at 9.45. p.m.. there will be (continued on next page) —

(continued from previous page) a recorded programme by the band of the 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd N.Z.E.F, In the Broadcast to Schools session on Thursday, April 24, a talk for children on "The Significance of Anzac Day" will be given at 1.30 p.m.