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OOKERY NOOK will . be heard for the first time over 1ZB on Friday, May 9, at 715 pm. The Ben Travers comedy has béen produced by the Clem Dawe company, and it is said to be as funny over the air as it was on the stage and the screen. Station 2ZB listeners heard the first episode on Friday, April 25. Station 3ZB will present the show on Friday, May 23, and it will go to Palmerston North and Dunedin later this month. * * STORY of English life, Scarlet Harvest, which started at 1ZB on Tuesday, April 29, will open at 2ZB on Tuesday, May 6, at 8.30 p.m., to be heard thereafter on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Station 3ZB will present it later. The tale, which concerns three generations, starts in late Victorian times and ends on VE Day. It has a long cast of characters and uses almost every dramatic device from blackmail and murder to pure romance. aK a a 7s ACTUALLY HAPPENED, which is replacing History’s Unsolved Mysteries, is a radio dramatization of unusual and sometimes little-known facts. It had its first broadcast from 2ZB on April 20, and will be heard from the other four Commercial stations this Sunday, May 4. Listening times are: 1ZB, 9.0 p.m.; 2ZB, 8.0 p.m.; 3ZB, 7.0 p.m; 4ZB, 8.0 p.m., and 2ZA, 3.0 p.m. This feature is scheduled as a regular Sunday item from now on. * ** * "7 HIS Sunday, May 4, a series of album recordings by Orson Welles, of great speeches, will start at the Commercial stations. Station 2ZB will lead off at
9.45 p.m. The first three (to be heard in one session) are the funeral oration of Pericles, the meditative essay of Jonn Donne, No Man is an Island, and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. On Sunday, May 11, the first series will be heard from 1ZB, while 2ZB will present the second, comprising Emile Zola, the French novelist, on Truth and Justice (one of his speeches in-defence of Dreyfus), John Brown’s On Behalf of the Despised Poor, and Liberty and Union, by Daniel Webster, American statesman and lawyer.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 410, 2 May 1947, Page 9
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353Programme Notes from ZB's New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 410, 2 May 1947, Page 9
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