Saturday, March 27

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 456, 19 March 1948, Page 44

Saturday, March 27

] Y 650 ke. 462 m. 6. 0, 7.0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS 9. 4 Entertains All 10. 0. Devotions: Pastor J. Gordon Smith 10.20 For My Lady: The English Theatre: Ibsen and the New Drama 11. 0 Auckland Racing Club: Meeting at Ellerslie 72. 0 Lunch Music 2. O p.m. Rhythm in Relays 3.30 Sports Results 5. 0 Children’s Hour: ‘Larry the Plumber" 5.45 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 Local News Service 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME Lofdon Philharmonic Orchestra Over the Hills and Far Away Delius 7.44 Gladys Swarthout (soprano) lilac Time Chausson Romanza de Solita Pittaluga El Majo Discreto Granados 7.52 TESSA BIRNIE (piano) 20th Century Piano Music Mouvements Perpetuels (4, 2, and 3) Pastourelle Toccata Adagietto Poulenc (A Studio Recital) 8. 6 Lily Pons (soprano) and Giuseppe de Luca (baritone) Tell Me Your Name Verdi Can it Be Rossini 8.14 Frederick Grinke (violin) Larghetto Ballade Dvorak 8.22 Jeanne Dusseau (soprano) and Nancy Evans (contralto), with Sadlers Wells Chorus and Orchestra Easter Hymn Mascagni 8.26 Music of the People (BBC Programme) 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 "Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh"’ (BBC Programme) * 10. 0 Sports Summary 10.10 Masters in Lighter Mood 11. 0 LONDON NEWS 11.20 Close down UN AUCKLAND 880 kc. 34] m. 5. 0 p.m. Symphony Hour 6..0 Tea Dance 6.30 Teatime Tunes 7. 0 After Dinner Music . 8.0 Radio Theatre: "Speak of the Devil’ 8.30 In Sweeter Vein 9. 0 Music by Gluck "Mengelburg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra Alceste Overture 9. 9 Rose Bampton, with the Victor Symphony Orchestra No, it is Not a _ Sacrifice ("Alceste’’) Ah! Against My will (‘‘Alceste") 9.18 The Paris Symphony Orchestra Orpheus Ballet Music 9.27. Kathleen Ferrier What is Life ("Orpheus’’) 9.32 Franz Schubert Sargent and the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Overture in the Italian Style 9.41 Artur and Ulrich Schnabel Lebenssturme 9.54 Mafalda Salvatini To the Lute Restless Love ; 9.58 Henri Temianka and his Chamber Orchestra Rondo in A 10.10 Music by Gershwin , 10.30 Close down S : 1250 ke, 240 m, 11. O.am. The Light Programme 4.0 p.m. Cavalcade of Variety 6.30. Salon Music — ‘ 6.0 Masters of the Bow 6.30 Songs from the Shows 7.0 Music for the Moderns, with Len Hawkins and his Orchestra es {Studio Presentation) 7.30 Latin American Rhythm 8. 0- Dancing Time 41..0 Close down

V/ WELLINGTON 2 570 ke, 526m. 6. 0,7.0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWs 9.4 Band: Programme 9.32 jgor Gorin (baritone) 9.40 Music While You Work 10.10 Devotional Service 10.40 For My Lady: "fhe White Ccockade" 11.0 Variety 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. p.m. Saturday Afternoon Matnee Professional Boxing: Dave Sands (Aust.) v. Jackie Marr (N.Z.) 4.45 Sports Summary 5. 0 Children’s Hour 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 ‘Wake Mine Music": Fayourite Song "Hits. presented by Jean McPherson (A Studio Presentation) 8. 0 Picture Parade: a Magazine Programme on Films and Film Production (BBC Programme) 8.29. "Much Binding in =the Marsh": Richard arid and Kenneth Horne (BBC Programme) 9.0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 "On the Sweet Side’ 10. 0 Sports Summary 10.10 Make believe’ Ballroom Time 11. 0 LONDON NEWS 11.20 Close down AN WELLINGTON 840 ke. 357m. . 46 p.m. Ballad and Instrumental Programme 1.30 Bandstand (BBC Production) ra The Lighter Classics 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 Senes for Sale 6.30 atime 6.45 Music of Manhattan 7. 0 The Jumping Jacks 7.15 Sweet and Lovely (with Peter Yorke’s Orchestra) 7.30 Baritones and Basses

7.45 Serenade to the Stars (BBC Production) 8. 0 Classical Music Modern Russian recta 4 Benno with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr er No. 2 in C Minor Op. 18 Rachmaninoff 8.37 N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra conducted by Efrem Kurtz Excerpts from the Ballet Suite "Gayane" Khachaturyan 8.50..The London Symphony Orchestra. conducted by Albert Coates Chinése March ("Song of the Nightingale’’) Stravinsky Colonne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gabriel Pierne Polka and Galop (Suite No. 2). Fireworks Stravinsky 9. 5 The New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski Symphony No. 8 Shostakovich 10.0 Music in the Tanner Manner 10.30 Close down

Vp W WELLINGTON 990 ke. 303 m. 7. 0 p.m. "You Asked For It" 10. 0 Reape be District Weather Report Close down 2N7 NEW PLYMOUTH 810 ke. 370m. 6.30 p.m. An Hour for the Children; Favourite Fairytales 7.30 Sports Session 8.0 Concert Session 8.30 "Cappy Ricks" 8.42 Concert Programme 10. 0 Close down ea AH| NAPIER 750 ke. 395 m. 7. 0, 8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS | 10.30 ‘Intermission’’- ) Commentaries on Cricket, Fijiv. Hawke’s Bay 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. Op.m. Afternoon Variety 5. 0 Children’s Hour: Aunt Helen 5.30 Tea Dance 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.15 Race Results 6.50 LONDON NEWS 7.0 After Dinner Music 7.15 Sports Results 7.30 Evening Programme "Those Were ihe Days" (BBC Programme) 8.30 "ITMA" 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Romance in Rhythm 10.15 District Sports Round-up 10.30 Close down

OXVAN | NELSON 920 ke. _327 m. 7. Op.m. Listeners’ Own Session 7.20 Local Sports Results 8.30 "Stand Easy" 9. 3 Alfredo and his Orchestra "Paganini" Selection Lehar 9.10 "Enter a Murderer" 9.32 Eugen Wolff and his Orchestra Supper in Vienna 9.38 Hilda Bor (piano) 9.44 Jeannette MacDonald (soprano) A Little Love, a Little Kiss Silesu The Maids of Cadiz Delibes 9.51 Lauri Kennedy (’cello) Serenade Mendelssohn 9.54 Harry Horlick and his Orchestra Sari Waltz Kalman Where the Lemons Bloom Strauss 10. 0 Close down

7. 0 p.m. Gisborne Invincibles 7.30 "Coronets of England" 8. 0 Concert "Programme: The Milan Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Kreisler (violin), Frazer Gange (baritone), Duncan McMillan (accordion) 9. 2 BBC Programme 9.30 Dance Music 10. 0 Close down S\V/ CHRISTCHURCH 720 ke. 416 m.

6. 0,7.0,8.04a.m. LONDON NEWS 7.58 Canterbury Weather Forecast 9. 4 Dusting the Shelves 9.30 Six New Releases 9.50 Modern Music 10.10 For My Lady: "Music is Served" 10.30 Devotional. Service 10.45 N.Z. Metropolitan Trotting Club’s Easter Meeting 11. 0 Light Orchestras 11.30 Tunes of the Times 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. 0 p.m. Bright Music 4.30 Sports Results Saturday Siesta 5. 0 Children’s Session: Gulliver’s Travels — 45 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 Local News Service 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME THE TRAMWAY HARMONISTS _ Song of the Jolly Roger Candish Long, Long Ago arr. Parkes Two Roses Werner Beloved Melody : Brandl, arr, Bartelo The Trumpeter arr. Salter (A Studio Presentation) 7.43 Oscar Levant and the Philadelphia Orchestra Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin 7.56 "Dombey and Son" (A BBC Transcription) 8.25 "Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh,"’ Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne (A BBC Transcription) 8.53 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra Song of the Volga Boatmen 9.0 Overseas and N.Z. News

9.80 "Picture Parade"; Fr Comments on the Film World (A BBC Transcription) 10. 0 District Sports Summary 10.15 Modern Dance Music 11. 0 LONDON NEWS 11.20 Close down SVL CHRISTCHURCH 1200 ke. 250m. 5. Op.m, Tunes for the Teatablg 6. 0 Concert Time 7. 0 Musical What’s What 7.15 March Music 7.30 "How Green Was My Valley" (final episode) 7.43 Bright Music from Populag Stars 8. 0 Symphonic Programme The BBC Symphony Orchestra "Leonora" Overture No. 4y Op. 138 Beethoven 8. 8 The Concerto: Tracing it¢ history and development 9. 0 The London Philharmonig Orehestra Symphony No. 6 in ¢ Schubert 9.28 The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sargent "The Perfect Fool’ Ballet Music Holst 9.40. Edna Phillips (harp) and the Philadelphia Orchestra cone ducted .by Harl MacDonald Suite "From Childhood" * MacDonald 10.0 Humour and Harmony 10.30 Close down [Sz4iQ Remo | 7. 0, 8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS9. & Our Garden Expert: R, Chibnall . = 9.18 You Ask, We Play 41. 0 Music For All 12. 0 Lunch. Music 2. 0 p.m. Saturday Afternoon Matinee

4.40. Sports Summary No, 4 5. 0 Children’s Session: Aunt Dinner Music 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 Feature Time i 8. 0 "Room 13" 8.30 "Serenade" 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.15 Revue Time b 9.45 Old Time Dance Session .« 10. 0 Sports Summary No. 3 .- 10.10 Popular Swing Bands a 10.30 Close down 4) Y 4 790 kc, 380 m, 6. 0, 7.0, 8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS \ 9.4 Tunes of the Times 9.19 From the Noel. Cowarg Shows baa! Hightand Pipe Band Cone st the Street March) 10. © Music for All: Smetana 10.20 Devotional Service 10.40 For My Lady: "The Vagabonds" 11. 0 Sweet Serenade 11,15 Songs Of the Islands 11.30 The Symphony of Music 12. 0 Sports Announcements 12. 5&5 p.m. Lunch Music 2.0 Local Weather Condition$ 2-4 Saturday Matinee Lawn Tennis Championships an@ the Pipe Band Contest

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CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL bd The following programmes will be broadcast to correspondence school pupils by 2YA and rebroadcast by 1YA, 3YA, 4YA, 2YH 3ZR, and 4YZ: TUESDAY, MARCH 23 9. 5a.m. Our Radio Playwriting Competition for 1947, "Wreck of the Benvenue," by Shirley Cartwright (3rd place). 9.14* Lt.-Col. T. Orde Lees: The New Forest. 9.24 Miss E. R. Ryan: Shorthand Dictation. FRIDAY, MARCH 26 Good Friday, \

4.45 Sports Summary 6. 0 Children’s Hour: ‘" The Giaitt’s Head," the story of two boy detectives (BBC Production) 5.45 Dinner Music 6.60 Late Sports Results 86.30 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 Sports Summary 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME In the Beginning: The History of the Overture 8.0 Songs by Essie Ackland (contralto) 8. 9 Albert Sandler and his Palm Court Orchestra Three-Four Valse Suite Coleridge Taylor 8.16 HAROLD RICKARD (tenor) Afton Water Hume An Eriskay Love Lilt Kennedy Fraser As I Sit Here Sanderson (A Studio Recital) 8.28 Music of the People 8. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Old-time Dance Musio 9.30 Old-time Dance Music: Ted Andrews and the Revellers Dance Band (From the Studio) 40. 0 Sports Summary 10.10 Old-time Dance Music 411. 0 LONDON NEWS 11.20 Close down

ENVO tone oat, m. Saturday ‘Proms’ Dance Music Songs of the West The Jumpin’ Jacks Popular Parade "Hopalong Cassidy" Harmony and Humour Music Hall Memories "The White Cockade" Classical Music 9. William Mengelberg and Concertgebouw Orchestra Anacreon the Overture Cherubini

9.10 Artur Schnabel (piano) Toccata in C Minor Bach 9.21 Joan Cross (soprano) Vanish’d Are Ye (‘The Marriage of Figaro’’) Ah!,’Tis Gone (‘The Magic Flute’’) Mozart 9.30 Richard Odnoposoff (violin), Stefan Auber (’cello) and Angelica Morajes (plano) with Felix Weingartner -and the! Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Triple Concerto in C, Op. 56 Beethoven 10. 6 Tito Schipa (tenor) Le Violette Son Tutta Duolo Scarlatti

10.12 Sargent and the Halle Orchestra "Water Music" Suite Handel 10.30 Close down Lanny Mareen 7. 0, 8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS 9. 4 Songs of the West 9.16 Variety Roundup 10. O Devotional Service 10.30 Health in the Home: Fresh Air in Big Doses 10.33 ‘Krazy Kapers" 41. 0 "To Have and to Hola" 11.30 Riverton Racing Club’s Easter Fixture 11.36 In Holiday Mood 12. 0 Lunch Music Cricket: Southland vy, Otago 2.0 p.m. Radio Matinee 4.0 The Floor Show 5. 0 Children’s Hour: Uncle Clarrie 5.15 Music for the Tea Hour 6. & Sports Summary 6.10 Crosby Time 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 .To-day’s Sports Results 7.30 Palace of Varieties 8. 0 In Strict Tempo 8.30 Musical Comedy Theatre: repay. 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.16 Music Hath Charms

9.36 CHARLES MARTIN (piano) Meine Freuden Chopin-Liszt Capriccio in B Minor, Op. 76, No. 2 abe La Fileuse Cracovienne Gilaitihe 14, No. 6 othe Ae 1 (A Studio Recital) 10. 0 Sports Summary: Accept- , ances and prospects for second of ‘Riverton Races 0.30 Close down

Saturday, March 27

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.

7 ie ee 6. 0 a.m. Music for a Leisure Morning 8.15 Late Sports Preview 8.45 Auckland District Weather Forecast Drive Safely 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 Club 2.0 Sports Summary every Half Hour until 4.30 aa Priority Parade 2.30 Musical Variety 3.15 Saturday Serenade 3.30 From the Musical Comedy Stage 4.15 The Papakura Programme 4.39 Summary of Sports Milestone Club (Thea) 5. 0 Sunbeam Session 5.30 "Way Out West EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Reserved 6.15 Fairy Tales: The Babes in 6 the Woods .30 Great Days in Sport 6.45 a Results (Bill Meredith 7. 0 Please Play for Me 7.30 Empress of Destiny 7.45 The Romance of Famous Jewels: Abu Serat Abu Ku and the Magic Ring The Challenge of the Cities What’s New in Records The Dark Horse Hatter’s Castle Music for the Saturday y at Homes 0 Everybody’s Favourites 5 Serenade in Rhythm 10.30 Famous Dance Bands: Eddy Howard 41. 0 Dance Little Lady 41.15 Party Music Until Midnight 12. 0 Close down a 2aekSo

Aw WELLINGTON 1130 ke, 265 m. 6. 0 a.m. Breakfast Session 8.15 Late Sports News 8.45 Drive Safely 9.45 Mantovani Melodies 10. 0 Gardening Session (Snowie) 10.15 Housewives’ Session (Marjorie) 10.30 New Recordings 11. 0 Dinah Shore 11.30 Sports Session 12. 0 Mid-day Melody Menu 12.30 p.m. Canceilations and Postponements 2.0 Sports summaries’ every half hour until 4.30 2.15 New Mayfair Orchestra 3.45 Rodgers and Hart Song Successes 4.15 Rina Ketty and Jean Cavall 4.30 Sports Summary 5. 0 Orchestral Melodies 5.15 News from the Zoo EVENING PROGRAMME Reser ved Tales: The Frog -_ yao a ° on 2 3 Tunes of the Times Sports Results (George wards) Please Play for Us Empress of Destiny 45 The Romance of Famous Jewels: Sir Lancelot and the Diamond Joust Challenge of the Cities What’s New in Records Masters of Song Hatter’s Castle The Latest from Overseas Music that Will Live 10.30 There Ain’t No Fairies: Little Red Cape 10.45 River Reveries 11.0 Convivial Mediey 12. 0 Close down NNN DH BH SomGS a RBS =O 0 ° b °

3ZB CHRISTCHURCH 1430 ke. 210 m. 6. 0 a.m. Break 0’ Day Musio 8.0 Breakfast Club 8.15 Sports Session 8.45 Drive Safely 9. 0 Bachelor Girl Session (Paula) 9.45 Nitwit Network 10.0 Bevy of British Dance Bands and Artists 10.15 Movie Magazine 10.30 Striking a New Note 11. 0 Spotlight on the Smiths 11.30 Sports Cancellations For the Week-end Gardener 12. O Lunchtime Fare 12.15 p.m. Vegetable Growing 12.30 Sports Cancellations 1.3 Screen Snapshots 1.15 Rhythm Cocktail 1.45 Wanderers of the Hills 2. 0 Sports Summaries every half-hour until 4.30 At Your Service Hawaiian Harmony Masters of the Keys Let the Bands Play Shepherds’ Pie Summary of Sports "Children’s Garden Circle: The Garden Lady 4.45 Session: Long, Long, Ago 5. 0 Kiddies’ Easter Party EVENING PROGRAMME PONNN @ asa og 6. 0 Reserved 6.15 Fairy Tales: Little Brother and Sister . 6.45 Final Sports Results ae Please Play for Me 7.30 Empress of Destiny 7.45 The Crimson Circle 8. 0 Challenge of the Cities 8.45 Orchestral Interlude 9. 1 Hatter’s Castle 10. 0 Thanks for the Song 1u.30 Famous Dance Bands 10.456 From the Film Anchors A weigh 12. 0 Close down

47B DUNEDIN 1310 k.c. 229 m. Oa.m. London News 6. & Start the Day Right 6.30 Morning Meditation 8. 0 Bright and Early 8.45 Drive Safely 9. 0 Ballads by Lawrence Tib- [> 9.45 Mills Brothers and a Guitar 10. 0 Music of Other Lands 10.30 Humour Time 11. 0 Palladium Memories 11.30 Sports Cancellations 12. 0 Mid-day Melody Menu 12.30 p.m. Sports Cancellations 1. 0 Of Interest to Men 1.15 A Vocal Spot with the Inkspots 1.30 Kay Kyser and Orchestra, and Dinah Shore 2. 0 Sports Summary’ Every Half-hour until 4.30 The Victor Male Chorus Cuban Rhythm Light and Bright Music for All Tastes Sports Summary * Voice of Youth For the Kiddies Songs and Tunes EVENING PROGRAMME Reserved Fairy Tales: Puss in Boots Chicot the Jester Sports Results Please Play for Me Empress of Destiny Challenge of the Cities What’s New in Reoords Out of the Night Hatter’s Castle 1 Celebrity Spotlight: Jan Kiepura 9.30 Songs of the Nineties 10. 0 Band Wagon 10.30 and 11.20 Town Hall Dance \12, 0 Close down SoRShaka AAP ROW RBS o8oRBi0 OCOMHHINDHAADH ToT)

PALMERSTON Nth, 1400 ke, 214 m. nN N 7. O a.m. Breakfast Session 7.15 Dominion Weather Forecast 8. 0 Saturday Specials 8.15 Late Sports News 8.30 Drive Safely Talk 9. O Request Session 9.30 Say it With Music 9.45 Harmony Time 10. 0 Workers’ Playtime 10.30 Bing Sings 10.45 Variety Calls the Tune 411. 0 New Mayfair Orchestra 11.15 Jimmy Cash (tenor) 11.30 Sports Cancellations 11.35 Strictly Instrumental 11.45 A Spot of Fun 12. 0 Music and Song 12.25 Sports Cancellations 12.30 Dominion Weather Fore-= Gardening Session 2. 0 Sports Summaries’ every half hour until 4.30 5 a | Bandstand: BBC Military Band 2.15 Song Spinners 2.45 Rendezvous with Rhythm 3. 0 The Melody Lingers On 3.30 Stars in the Afternoon 3.45 Music of Our Time 4.0 Orchestral Miscellany 4.30 Sports Summary 4.45 Sunset Roundup 5. 0 Silvester Time 5.15 Hits of Yesterday 5.30 Long, Long Ago 5.45 Variety Bandbox EVENING PROGRAMME Saturday Serenade Dark Stars of Light Musloz urner Layton Sports Results Twilight Time The Todds New Song Favourites Challenge of the Cities Music that WII Live Doctor Mac Supper Songs Close down ~82 SOP SOAnNe Of Bo8a0k ou ao °

Turner Layton, the Negro entertainer, will be heard in popular songs at the piano from 2ZA at 6.30 this evening. The session is entitled Dark Stars of Light Music.

Successes of the American songwriting team, Rodgers and Hart, will be heard from 2ZB at 3.45 this afternoon.

se Please Play for Me, the regular Saturday request session from the four ZB Stations, is an indication of the popular music in N.Z.

Trade names appearing in Commerctal Division programmes are published by arrangement