Saturday, March 6

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 453, 27 February 1948, Page 36

Saturday, March 6

LUNA ee | 6. 0,7.0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWs 9.4 Entertainers All 49. 9 Devotions: Dr. W. H. Pettit 10.20 For My Lady: Queens of Song, Germany 41. 0 Domestic Harmony 12. 0 Lunch Music 1. Op.m. Tennis: ‘Australia Vv. Auckland 3.30 sports’ Results 5. 0 Children’s Hour 6.45 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 ‘Local News Service~ 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME EMILE BONNY (’cello) and ESTHER PARKER (piano) Suite No, 1 Handel (A Studio Recital) 7.43 NOELINE GIBBONS (soprano) The Myrtle Shade Purcell The Green Hills 0’ Somerset Coates Don’t Come in, Sir, Please Daffodils Cyril Ccott (A Studio Recital) 7.565 Egon Petri (piano) Variations on a Theme by Paganini Brahms 8.12 RICHARD GWYNNE (bassbaritone) Storm Fiend Roeckel Mighty Deep dude Little Ships Loughborough (From the Studio) 8.24 Music for the People (BBC Programme) 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News %.30 Dance Music 10. 0 Sports Summary 11, 0 LONDON NEWS 11.20 Close down UN. AUCKLAND 880 ke. 341 m. 5. Op.m. Symphony Hour 6. 0 Tea Dance 6.30 Tunes of the Times 7.0 After Dinner Music ae Radio Theatre: "Handsome 8 8.30 In Sweeter Vein 8.0 Music by Tchaikovski London Philharmonic Orchestra Hamlet Overture 9. 9 Joan Hammond Tatiana’s Letter Scene ("Eugen Onegin’) 9.21 Kindler and the National Symphony Orchestra Symphony No. 3 in D, Op. 29 ("Polish") 10. 0 Brazilian Music The NBC Orchestra fl Guarany Overture Gomez 10, 8 Christina Maristany (soprano) Quem Sabe? Gomez A Casinha Pequenina Braga El. Clavelito en tos Lindos Cabellos Beila Granada Mignone 10.20 Ormandy and the NBC Symphony Orchestra Pracledeo for Eight ’Cellos Villa-Lobos 10.24. Stokowski and the NBC Orchestra. Brazilian Dance Fernandez 10.30 Close down . LISTENERS’ SUBSCRIPTIONS-Paia advance ot any Money Orde: Office: lwelve months, 12/-; — six months, 6/-. Ali pr in this issue ari t to The Listener, atid may nor be reprinted without verniission |

12y eee] 11. Oam,. The Light Programme 1. Op.m., Cavalcade of Variety | 5.30 6. 0 6.30 7.0 Salon Music Masters of the Bow Songs from the Shows Music for the Moderns with Len Hawkins and his Orchestra 7.30 8. 0 (A Studio Presentation) Waltz Time Dancing Time 11. 0 Close down AVASw os 6. 0,7 9. 4 9.30 9.40 10. 0 10.10 10.40 7.0, 8.0 a.m. | . LONDON NEWS Military Judy Garland Music While You Work Local Weather Conditions Devotional Service For My Lady: "The White Cockade"

12. 0 Luneh Music 2. O p.m. Saturday Afternoon Matinee 2.30 Professional Boxing: Dave Sands (middle and light-heavy- : weight champion of Australia) vy. Doug Roilinson (light-heavy- | weight champicn of N.Z.) 4.45 Sports Summary 5. 0 Children’s Hour: Uncle Ernest and Aunt Jane 5.45 Dinner Music 6. 0 Late Sports Results 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 Sports Results 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME In Reserve 7.45 JEAN McPHERSON (vocal) Make Mine Music (A Studio Presentation) \ ; 8. 0 "Picture Parade"; The music of Addinsell, introduced by Muir Mathieson "That Something Censor," talk by the late James Agate : Willfam Hartnell in "Appointment with Crime" 8.28 "Much Binding in the Marsh": Ricoard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne (BBC Programme) 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 "On the Sweet Side" 10. 0 Sports Summary 10.10 Dance Music 16.40 The Hit kit 11. 0 LONDON NEWS 411.20 Close down

2N7C WELLINGTON 840 ke. 357 m. 1. 0 p.m. * Ballad and Instrumental Programme 1.30 Bandstand ~* (BBC Production) 2.0 Light Classical Programme 2.30 The Sweetwood Serenaders 2.45 Singing for You (BBC Production) 3.15 © Light Music 5.0 Sweet Rhythm 5.30 Tea Dance = 6. 0 Songs for Sale 6.30 Novatime 6.46 Music of Manhattan 7.0 The Jumping Jacks 7.15 Sweet and Lovely: Peter Yorke’s Orchestra 7.30 Baritones and Basses 7.45 Serenade to the Stars (BBC Production) 8.0 Classical Music The London Philharmonic Orchestra Symphony in D Minor Franck 8.42 Walter Gieseking (piano), and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Henry Wood Symphonic Variations ranck 8.58 Charles Kullman (tenor), Kerstin Thorborg (contralto), and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra The Song of the Earth Mahler 9.54 Vienna Philharmonic Oring conducted by Robert eger Love Music Strauss 10. 0 Music in the Tanner Man-} ner ’ ;

10.30 Close down 990 ke. 303 m, 7. 0 p.m. "You Asked For It" 10. 0 wees District Weather Report Close down 2N7 (33 NEW PLYMeeTe| a 810 ke. 370m. 6.30 p.m, An Hour for the Children: Favourite Fairy Tales 7.30 Sports Session 8.0 Concert Session 8.30 "Cappy Ricks’ x: 8.42 Concert Programme 10. O Close down

LQNC inl one Se | 7. 0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS 10.30 12. 0 "intermision" Lunch Music Hawke’s Bay, Poverty Bay Centre: Junior and Women’s Track and Field Championships from Nelson Park 2. Op.m. Afternoon’ Variety 5. 0 5.30 5.45 6. 0 6.15 6.30 7.0 7.15 7.30 Children’s Hour: © Helen Tea Dance Accordiana Dinner Music Race Results LONDON NEWS After Dinner Music Sports Results Evening Programme Saturday Night Variety: Including the latest record releases 8. 0 London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Einar Nilson The Miracle Selection Humperdinck 8. 8 MAUREEN PLOWMAN (soprano) ; altz Song German The Old Refrain Kreisler The Blue Danube Dreams Strauss | Cherry Ripe Lehmann 8.20 (A Studio Recital) Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra Highlights from Porgy | and Bess 8.30 9. 0 9.30 10.15 10.30 Gershwin "ITMA" Overseas and N.Z. News Romance in Rhythm District Sports Roundup Close down

WAN BPE 920 ke. 327m. 7. 0 p.m. Listeners’ Own Session 7.20 Local Sports Results 8.30 "Stand Easy" 93 Eugen Wolff and his Orchestra Warsaw Night Express Mohr Sunshine in Spring Waltz De Curtis 9.10 "Enter a Murderer" 9.32 Blue Hungarian Band Moszkowski Dances 9.38 ito Schipa (tenor) Vivere Torna Piccina 9.44 Anla Dorfmann (piano) Grande Valse in A Flat Impromptu No. 1 in A Flat Chopin 9.51 Gwen Catley To-night You’re Mine The Waltz of Delight 9.57 Grand Hotel Orchestra Denia, Tango Serenade 10. 0 Close down

CLES) GISBORNE 980 ke. 306 m. 7. Op.m. After Dinner Music 7.15 Local Sporting Results 7.30 "Coronets of England" 8. 8 Mavis Bennett (soprano) 8.21 BBC Wireless Military Band 8.28 ."Student Prince’ Memories 8.57 Rudy Starita (xylophone) 9.4 BBC Programme 9.34 Dance Music 10.0 Close down ) : 3 V/A\ 720 ke, 416 m. 6. 0,7:0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS 7.68 Canterbury Weather Forecast 9. 4 Dusting the Shelves 2.30 The Latest Releases 10. 0 Orchestral Selection by Novello 10.10 For My Lady 410.30 Devotional Service

110.45 Popular Overtures: Leonora No. 2, by Beethoven, played by the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam 11. 0 Cricket Commentary: The Fijians v. Canterbury 11.30 Tunes of the Times 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. Op.m. Bright Music 4.30 Sports Results Saturday Siesta 5. 0 Children’s Session: Stories Old and New, "The Drums of Manalao," "Black Beauty" 5.45 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 Local News Service 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME The Novelettes, Melodies arranged for nine ladies’ voices, directed by Anita Ledsham (A Studio Presentation) 7.50 Mantovani and his Orches- * tra El Toreador Tell Me, Marianne 7.55 *"PDombey and Son’ (A BBC Transcription) 8.25 *‘Much Binding = on = the « Marsh," featuring Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne {A BBC Transcription) 8.55 Ambrose and his Orchest ra ’ El Samba 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 "The Goodwin Sands" (A BBC Transcription) 10. 0 Sports Summary 10.15 Modern Dance Music 11. 0 LONDON NEWS 11.20 Close down SL WMeisreuunce | 5. Op.m. Tunes for the Teatable 6. 0 Concert Time 7. 0 Musical What's What 7.16 March Music 7.30 "How Green Was My Valley" 743 Bright Music trom Popular Stars

8. 0 Symphonic Programme The Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by — Frederic Stock Overture On Italian Gomedy Benjamin 8. 6 The Concerto, the sixth in a series of programmes tracing the development of the Concerto 9. 0 Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire conducted by Piero Coppola Nocturnes Debussy 9.22. The Halle Orchestra conducted by Leslie Heward : Symphony in G Minor Moeran 10. 0 Huthour and Harmony 10.30 Close down PSYZARY GREYMOUTH 940 ke. 319m. | 7. 0, 8.0 am, LONDON NEWS 9. 5 Our Garden Expert: R. P, Chibnall 9.18 You Ask, We Play 11. 0 Everyman’s Music 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. 0 p.m. The ‘Saturday Afternoon Matinee 4.40 Sports Summary 5. 0 Children’s Hour 5.30 Dinner Musi¢e 6.0 "Random Harvest" : 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 Sports Summary No. 2 7.15 Concert Artists of To-day 7,30 Evening Programme 8.0 "@nter a Murderer" (Final episode)

DOMINION WEATHER FORECASTS 7.15. a.m., 9.0, 12.30 p.m., 9.0, 1YA, 2YA, 3YA, 4YA, 2YH, 3ZR, 4yzZ.

wean tee ee -_----- CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL ¢ The following programmes will be broadcast to correspondence school pupils by 2YA and rebroadcast by 1YA, SYA, 4 2YH 3SZR. and 4¥Z: ¢ 4 TUESDAY, MARCH 2 9. 4am. Dr. A.»G. Butchers: A Talk by the Headmaster. 9.13 Miss B. L. Rose: Poems for Little People. 9.20 Miss M. L. Smith and K. H. S. Allen: Parlons Frangais. FRIDAY, MARCH 5 9.4am. Miss R. C, Beckway: Folk Songs of Different Countries (1). 9.14 L. Lidgard: More About ‘Forestry. 9.24 Miss E, R. Ryan: Shorthand Dictation. . --

8.30 ‘Seremade" 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.17 Programme of Old Tine Daneing and Singing 9.36 Dance Music 10. O Sports Summary 10.10 Popular Jazz Groups 10.30 Close down OyAG ee 6. 0,7.0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS 9.4 Tunes of the Times 9.31 Music While You Work 10.0 Gipsy Music 10.20 Devotional Service 10.40 For My Lady: "The Vagabonds" 41: O Songs of the Islands 11.30 The Symphony of Music 12. 0 Sports Announcements and cancellations 412. Sp.m. Lunch Music , | Saturday Matinee Commentaries on N.Z, Athletic Championships 4.45 Sports Summary 6. 0 Children’s Hour 5.45 Dinner Music 6. 0 Sports Results 6.30 LONDON NEWS roe Local Announcements Sports Summary 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME 4YA Concert Orchestra and Gil Dech

8. 0 IAN’ HARVEY (piano) and DORIS ADCOCK (contralto) (A Studio Programme) 8.13 Strings. of. the George Melathrino Orchestra (BBC Feature) 8.28 The Story of Words and Music Musical Director: Bertha Rawlinson (A Studio Presentation) 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Dance Music 10. 0 Sports Summary 10.410 Masters in Lighter Mood 11. 0 LONDON NEWS 11.20 Close down

aC) DUNEDIN: 1140 ke. 263 m. 530 p.m. Saturday "Proms" 6. 0 Dance Music 6.30 Songs of the West 6.45 Novatime 7. 0 Popular ‘Parade 7.30 "Hopalong Cassidy" 7.45 Harmony and Humour 8.15 Music Hall Memories 8.30 "The White Cockade" 9. 0 Classical Music The Boyd Neel String. Orchestra Symphony in B Flat 9. 6 Ossy Renardy (violin) ‘Sonata in E Minor . Corelli

9.14 Blanche Thebom (mezzosoprano) I Attempt from Love’s Sickness to Fly Purcell Siciliana Handsi 9.20 Dennis Brain, with the Halle Orchestra Horn Concerto No. 4 in E Flat, (.495 Mozart 9.37 Webster Booth (tenor) Mine Be Her Burden | To Her I Love Now I Hasten ("Don Giovanni’) Mozart 9.45 Alexander Borowsky (piano) English Suite in G Minor S. Bach 9.57 The Boyd Neel String Orchestra Fugue in A Minor Bach 10. 0 Light and Bright 10.30 Close down . ANY O24 INVERCARGILL : €80 ke. 441 m. 7. 0,8.0a.m LONDON NEWS 9. 4 "Homestead on the Rise" (final episode) 9.16 Variety Round-up 10. 0 Devotional Service 10.30 ‘Krazy Kapers"’ 11. 0 Invercargill Trotting Club’s Meeting at Southland Racecourse 11. & "To Have and to Hold" 11.42 Songs of the Prairie 12. 0 Lunch Music 2.0 p.m. Radio Matinee 4. 0 The Floor Show 6. 0 Children’s Hour 5.30 Music for the Tea Hour 6.5 Late Sports Summary 6.10 Crosby Time 6.30 LONDON NEWS aS Sports Results 7.30 "Palace of Varieties"

8. 0 "Fifty Years a Promenader": This talk is particularly valuable as an introduction to the Henry Wood Promenade Concert to-night at 9.45 8.15 Reg Lewis and his Prince Edward Theatre Orchestra 8.30 Musical Comedy Theatre 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.15 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 10.30 Sports Summary 10.35 Close down

Saturday. March 6

Sports Summaries: 2.0, 2.30, 3.0, 3.30, 4.0, 4.30 p.m.

Sports Summaries: 2.0, 2.30, 3.0, 3.30, 4.0, 4.30° p.m, ;

B AUCKLAND 1070 ke. 280 m. 6. 0 am. Music for a Leisure Morning 8.15 Late Sports Preview 8.45 Auckland District Weather Forecast, followed by Drive Safely 9. O Bachelor Girl (Betty) 9.30 Current Ceiling Prices 9.45 We Travel the Friendly Road with the’ Traveller 10. 0 Tops in Tunes 10.15 Variety Programme 11.30 Sports Postponements 12. 0 Music and Sports Flashes 12.30 p.m. Sports Postponements Gardening Session (John Henry) 1.30 1ZB Happiness Ciub (Joan) 2.0 Sports Summaries’ every half-hour to 4.30 Priority Parade (Hilton Porter) 2.30 Musical Variety and Sports News 3.15 Saturday Serenade 3.30 From the Musical Comedy Stage 4.15 Papakura Programme 4.30 Summary of Afternoon’s Sports Results . Milestone Club (Thea) 5. 0 Sunbeam Session (Thea) 5.30 For Boys and Girls (Gil Cooke) EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Reserved 6.15 Fairy Tales: The Three Tasks 6.30 Great Days in Sport 6.45 Sports Results 7. 0 Please Play for Me 7.30 Empress of Destiny 7.45 The Romance of Famous yma The Black Prince’s Ruby 8. Challenge of the Cities What’s New in Records 8.45 The Dark Horse 9. Hatter’s Castle 9.1 Everybody’s Favourites Serenade in Rhythm 3 Famous Dance Bands: Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra 11. 0 Dance Littie Lady 11.15 Party Musio 12. 0 Close down 0 5 Music for Stay-at-Homes 1 ao 10. 10. 10. °

2ZB WELLINGTON 1130 ke, 265 m. 6. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 7. 0 Hawaiian Guitars 8. 0 Dark Harmony 8.15 Late Sports News 8.30 Show Tunes with Gershwin 8.45 Drive Safely 9. 0 Bachelor Girl Session 9.45 In a Spanish-American Way 10. O Gardening Session 10.15 Housewives’ Sessian 10.30 New Recordings 10.45 Pageant of Stars: Frances Langford, George Formby 11.15 Harry Roy and his Orchestra 11.30 Sports Sessions, Cancella. tions and Postponements 12. 0 Mid-day Melody Menu 12.30 p.m. Cancellations and Postponements 2. 0 Sports Summaries every half-hour until 4.30 2.15 A Spot of Humour 3.15 New Releases 4.15 The Merry Macs 5. 0 Orchestral Melodies 5.15 News from the Zoo EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Reserved 6.15 Fairy Tales: The Babes in the Wood 6.30 Tunes of the Times 6.45 Sports Results , ae Please Play For Me 7.30 Empress of Destiny 7.45 Romance of Famous Jewels: The Jewel of Destiny 8. 0 Challenge of the Cities 8.30 What’s New in Records 8.45 Masters of Song 9. 1 Hatter’s Castle

9.15 The Latest from Overseas 10. 0 Music That Will Live — There Ain’t No Fairies: The ink 10.45 Vaughn Monroe and the Moon Maids 11. O In the Modern Idiom 12. 0 Close down

3ZB CHRISTCHURCH 1430 ke. 210 m. a.m. Break o’ Day Music Breakfast Club Sports Session Drive Safely Bachelor Girl Session u Nitwit Network 0.0 Bevy of British Dance Bands and Artists 10.15 Movie Magazine 10.36 Striking a New Note 11. O Spotlight on Alan Eddy 11.30 Sports Cancellations For the Week-End Gardener, Gavin Henderson 12, O Lunchtime Fare 12.15 p.m. Vegetable Growing in the Home Garden 12.30 Sports Cancellations 1.3 Screen Snapshots 1.15 Men in Harmony 1.45 Wanderers of the Hills . QO Sports summaries’ every MMOD fofhace half-hour until 4.30 At Your Service 2.15 Hawaiian Harmony 2.30 Masters of the Keys 2.45 Let the Bands Play 3. 0 Shepherd’s Pie 4.30 Sports Summary Children’s. Garden Circle 4.45 Children’s Session: Long, Long Ago 5. 0 Kiddies’ Concert | EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Reserved 6.15 Fairy Tales: The Animal Music Quartette * 6.30 Let’s Get Together 6.45 Final Sports Results 7. 0 Please Play for. Me 7.30 ‘Empress of Destiny |

7.45 Tusitala, Teller of Tales: Almost a V.C., by Railton Holden 8. 0 Challenge of the Cities 8.30 What’s New in Records. 8.45 Orchestral Interlude 9. 1 Doctor Mac 9.18 Armchair Corner 10: 0 Thanks for the Song 10.30 Famous Dance Bands: Les Brown and his Orchestra 10.45 From the Jolson Story 11. 0 Dancing Time 12. 0 Close down

4ZB DUNEDIN 1310 k.c. 229 m 6. Oa.m. London News 6. 5 Start the Day Right 6.30 Morning Meditation 7.35 Morning Star 8.45 Drive Safely 9.45 Rhumba Fantasie 10. 0 Ted Heath and his Music 11. 0 Frankie Masters and Six Hits and a Miss : 11.30 Sports Cancellations — 12. 0 Mid-day Melody Menu 12.30 p.m. Sports Cancellations 1.0 Of Interest to Men 1.15 King Bing 2. 0 Sports Summary 2.15 Wonder Man: Danny Kaye 2.30 Sports Summary 2.45 Carroll Gibbons and his Boy Friends 3. Sports Summary 3.15 Alfredo Campoli and Peter Dawson 3.30 Sports Summary 4.15 Frances Langford and Denny Dennis 4.30 Sports Summary 4.45 Voice of Youth 5. 0 For the Kiddies 5.30 Orchestras of Victor Young and Harry Horlick EVENING PROGRAMME 6.15 Fairy Tales: Little Brother and Sister 6.30 Chicot the Jester 6.45 Sports Results 7. 0 Please Play for Me 7.30 Empress of Destiny 8. 0 Challenge of the Cities 8.30 What’s New in Records 8.45 Out of the Night 9. 0 Doctor Mac 9.15 Celebrity Spotlight: Kenny er 0 Evensongs 10. 0 Band Wagon 10.30 &11.20 Town Hall Dartce 11.45 12. 0 At Close of Day Close down LS Te A popular Saturday programme is "Fairy Tales" at 6.15 p.m. The verse speaking choir employed in the production of this feature makes attractive listening.

27, PALMERSTON Nth. . 1400 ke. 214 m © 7. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 7.15 Dominion Weather Forecast 8. 0 Saturday Specials 8.15 Late Sports News 8.30 Drive Safely Talk 9. 0 Morning Request Session 9.30 Say it with Music 10. 0 Workers’ Playtime 10.45 Variety Calls the Tune 11. 0 Harry Horlick’s Orchestra 11.15 Five Hits by Hoagy Carmichael 11.30 ‘Sports Cancellations 11.35 Strictly Instrumental 12. 0 Music and Song 12.25 p.m. Sports Cancellations 12.30 Dominion Weather Forecast Gardening Session Fos, Sports Summaries Every " Half-hour until 4.30 2.1 Bandstand: A.B.C. ‘National Military Band 2.15 Song Spinners 2.45 Rendezvous with Rhythm 3. 0 The Melody Lingers On 3.45 Music of Our Time 4. 0 Orchestral Miscellany 4.30 Sports Summary 4.45 Sunset Round-up 5. 0 Silvester Time 5.30 Long, Long Ago: The Mon-= key and the Jellyfish 5.45 Variety Bandbox EVENING PROGRAMME 6.15 Saturday Serenade 6.30 Dark Stars of Light Musid 6.45 Sports Results 7. 0 Twilight Time 7.15 The Todds 7.30 New Song Favourites 7.45 Record Roundabout 8. 0 Challenge of the Cities 8.30 Music That Will jLive 9. 0 Doctor Mac 9.2 Let’s Dance 10. 0 Close down This morning at 11 o’clock, 3ZB sary the radio spotlight on baritene Alan Eddy, who toured New Zealand last year with the Gladys Moncrieff Company.