Christmas Day

New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 495, 17 December 1948, Page 6

Christmas Day

AUCKLAND : T 6.30 a.m. Phil Shone will interview Santa Claus about his experiences of the night before, and at 7.0 a.m. there will be carols from the studio by the Salvation Army Band and Songsters. From 8.30 am., an. hour will be taken up with relays of interviews and request items from crippled children in the hospitals. Each child will receive a gift and will be asked to nominate some recording. The whole ward will then hear the items played in the studio. This procedure will be repeated at the Wilson Home. WELLINGTON ‘ T 9.0 am. the choir of St. John’s Church, Johnsonville, will present a programme of lesser-known carols. The boys, whose ages range from eight to 13 years, will be under the conductorship of Claude Sander. At 11.30 a.m. listeners will hear the origins of several old customs such as the bringing in of the Yule Log, and the Christmas pudding complete with burning brandy. Food recipes from Christmas feasts of pre-austerity days will also come under the "old customs" classification. During the two days before Christmas 2ZB will appeal for flowers for old people in various Wellington institutions, and distribute them on Christmas Eve. At 11.45 a.m. on Christmas Day a description of the presentation of the posies will be broadcast. At 4.30 p.m. Lyell Boyes will relate The Poor Relation’s Tale, by Charles Dickens, and at 5.15 p.m. C. J. Cutler, Curator of the Wellington Zoo, will describe how his animals react to special titbits and a little extra fussing for Christmas. CHRISTCHURCH | A STUDIO presentation of carols by the Christchurch Boys’ High School Choir, under Clifton Cooke, will be broadcast at 7.30 a.m., followed at 8.0 a.m. by a hospital request session conducted by Bob. Spiers, who was associated with the session when 3ZB first went on the air. At 10.0 a.m. listeners will hear a series of recordings taken at various Christchurch homes as chil--dren: found their Christmas stockings, and at 11.0 a.m. the staff of 3ZB will present posies to women patients in hospitals. A new type of request sessionrecordings selected by people of 75 years

of age and over-will be on the air at noon. The girls of Te Waipounamu Girls’ College will give greetings in song at 145 p.m. A Christmas Ramble on Banks Peninsula, compiled by Airini Grennell, at 4.0 p.m., will deal with Maori history in that district. At 8.15 p.m: there, will be a résumé of 3ZB’s campaign, in association with the Christchurch Rotary Club, for food parcels for Britain. DUNEDIN SPECIAL request session for hos- > pital patients will be btoadcast at 8.0 am., and at 10.30 a.m., there will be a programme by the Salvation Army Band. With Dunedin’s Centennial Year coming to a_ close, the Mayors of Auckland,..Wellington and Christchurch will send. congratulations and good wishes for the future to Sir -Donald Cameron, Mayor, of Dunedin, at noon. Ten minutes later the station will broadcast Carols by Candlelight, recorded at midnight on Christmas Eve, when the sisters and nurses of the Dunedin Public Hospital go through the wards carol-singing, A programme of legends

and customs of other countries, under the title The Story of Christmastide, will be heard at 4.0 p.m. It was written by Anthony Scott Beach and the featured players will be Therese Desmond, Lloyd Lamble and Lionel Dunn, Santa Claus Visits the Children’s Wards-a delayed broadcast-will be presented at 4.45 p.m. PALMERSTON NORTH T 8.0 a.m. a boy and a girl will talk about the average child’s attitude towards. Santa Claus, and. half-an-hour later the Milson Women’s Institute Choir will supply a programme of carols. At 9.30 a.m. there will be a relay from the Palmerston North Hospital while nurses visit the wards and sing carols. Excerpts from Messiah will be heard at 11.0 a.m., and at 6.30 p.m. Christmas in Other Clirnes will be presented by members of the 2ZA staff who have at one time or another spent Christmas in Canada, Japan, Singapore, England and Australia. After the feature programmes all stations will broadcast Christmas party music till closing down time. *