Friday, December 24

New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 495, 17 December 1948, Page 42

Friday, December 24

i y Ne 400 m. ~ 6. 0,7.0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS 2. 4 Tunes from the Shows 9.34 With a Smile.and a Song 40. 0. Devotions: Major Montgomery . 40.20 For My Lady: "The Valley of Decision" 7150 In*Festive Mood 94at5 © Music While. You Work 42. 0 Luneh, Music 2._ 0.p.m. From Our Library 2.30 CLASSICAL HOUR "ez ehonare 4 C, Op. 53 ("wald‘Beethoven variat ons in B Minor Sonata in’ F,’KV377 Mozart 3.30; © Musical Contrasts 3.45 Music While You Work 4.15 Light Music 4.30 Children’s Hour: "Gobbin’s Goose," an Irish fairy tale: (BBC Programme) 0 Variety 0 Dinner Music .26 "Market Reports 40 LONDON NEWS National. Announcements (6.45 . BBC, Newsreel 7. 0 Local News Service 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME The London Radio Orchestra _A Carol Symphony Hutchinson (BBC Programme)

7.59 "Bethlehem," a choral drama by Rutland Boughton, presented by the BBC Theatre Chorus and Orchestra with Marjorie Thomas (contralto), Elsie Suddaby (soprano) and Trevor Anthony (bass) 8.57 Station Notices 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30. Ceremony of Candle Lighting, a . dramatized hristmas story with the Lighted Tree illumined by the glow of many candies throughout the countryside (from Myers Park, Auck- --. land) 40. 0. "Much-Binding-in-the-arsh" ; (BBC. Programme) 10.30 Music, Mirth, and Melody 41. 0 LONDON NEWS 41.20 An Unusual Musical, by Al Sation and. his Hot Dogs 11.50 Quiet Interlude 142. 0 MIDNIGHT MASS St. Patrick’s Cathedral Preacher: His Lordship Bishop Liston Organist: Lenora Owsley Choirmaster: George- O’Gorman 1. Oa.m. (approx.) Close down

IVC Ae eehe 6. O:p.m.:- Dancing Time 8.30 Popular Parade yA After Dinner Music "Whose Body?’ (BBC Programme) 8.30 Radio Revue "gy. O"~ Latin American Rhythms At. the Keyboard Dennis Day * ‘Norman Cloutier . The Story. of the Carol ~ lose down oo So

Fe ee AUCKLAND ey #1250 ke, 240 m. 490 pam. Matinee .Music¢ Melody -on the Move Dinner Music 7. 0 "Anne of Green Gables" 7.30 Opera Half Hour. 8. 0 Listeners’ Classical + Requests 40. 0 Ciose down

[ON/AE "@: 0, 7.0 8 0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS 4 Concert Platform 8.31 Morning Star: Nelson Eddy | ‘9.40 Music While You Work 10.10 fPevotional Service 410.25 Home Science Talk: Answers to Common Bottling Ques-| tions : 40.40 For My Lady: Schumann

44..0 Music of Manhattan 41.30 The Orchestras and Choirs of the BBC 42. 0 Lunch Music 2. 0 p.m, CLASSICAL. HOUR String Trio Berkeley Prelude and Fugue for String: ‘Trio Dies Natalis Finzi 3. 0 Pons-Kostelanetz Concert 3.30 Music .While You, Work | 4.0 Favourites from Opera: Rossini’s "Barber of Seville" 4.30 Children’s Session: Interesting ‘Ficts, Dances of the Masters . 5. 0 Rhythm Parade: Sammy Kaye and his Orchestra 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreel ype Feilding Stock Market Re-

port : 7.15 Talk: "Gold and Frankincense and Myrrh," the origin of the Magis’ gifts described by Robert H. Neil 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME Christmas Carols from _ all Countries, by Robert Shaw and his Victor Chorale 8. 0 Radio Theatre: "Kings in Judea." from Dorothy L. Sayers’ series "The Man Born to be king"’ (BBC Production) 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 3.20 Provincial Letter 9.30 Bandstand: Music for the Bandsman Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards The Shoe Black Barsotti Band of HM. Life Guards Irish Fantasy Lange Band of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Imperial Dickens Woolston Brass Band Invercargill Lithgow Band of the Grenadier Guards Lion and Crown McKenna Grand Massed Brass Bands March of the Herald Nicholls

Community Land arr. Stoddon ABC National. Military Band City of Ballarat Code Band of H.M, Grenadier Guards Sage or Miller 40. 0 Rhythm on Record: "Turntable’’ 11. 0 LONDON NEWS Party Time 411 a Carols » » \by Candlelight: WW.C.A. Service (from Newend Park) 42. 0 Midnight Mass (from, St, Gerard’s’ Redemptorist Church) 4. 0 a.m. (approx:) Close down

2 Y 650 kc. 461 m™. 4.30 p.m. Popular Hit Revivals 5. 0 The Rosario Bourdon Orchestra, with Vivienne della Chiesa, Thomas L. Thomas; and Vicente Gomez 5.30 Louis Levy and his Orehestra with Nelson Eddy to sing cama af the hits from his films

0 Tea Dance: With Perry The Ambassadors Quartet The Chamber Music of 0 Solo Spotlight: Walt Dis715 "Sweet Serenade"’ | (BBC Production) It’s a Pleasure 0 30 Anniversary of the Week ee Masterpieces of Music National Symphony Orchestra conducted. by Karl Rankl _Symphony No, 4 in © Minor ("Tragic") * Schubert 9.32 Elisabeth Schumann (soprano), Reginald Kell elarinet) and George Reeves (plano) Shepherd on the Rock Schubert

9.40 Robert Casadesus (piano) with Orchestre Symphonique de Paris conducted by Eugene Bigot Concertstuck in F Minor, Op. 79 Weber ‘ 10. O Serenade 10.30 Close down 2D 1130 ke. 265 m. 7. Op.m. Comedyland ; 7.30 Songs.of. the Islands 7.45 "Miss Portia Iptervenes"" 8.0 "With a Smile and a Song": 18.30 "Serenade" 9. 0 Stars of the Concert Hall 9.20 "The Crimson Circle" 9.45 Tempo Di Valse 10. 0 Wellington District Weather Report Close down (sen

8. Op.m, Concert Programme 8.30 BBC Feature: The Anthropollens on Contemporary Probems AS Station Announcements 9.20 "Dad and Dave" 10. 0 Close down QYZ oo ~ Je m,

7. 0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS Breakfast session 9. 4 9.50 miaux and Jean Prugnet (violinists) 10. 0 | ner 10.30 44: 0 11.30 11.45 12. 0 Morning Variety Morning Star: Arthur GruMusic in the Tanner ManMusic While You Work Master Music Hawaiian Interlude Folk Musie Lunch Music 2. Op.m. Music While You Work 2.30 Waltz. Time 2.45 Variety 3.15 Excerpts from Gounod’s "Faust" 4. 0 Songs by Women ais "Martin’s Corner"

4.30 Children’s session: Uncle Ray tells you about a Boy’s Visit to Santa Claus 5. 0 Music from Filmland 5.30 Dancing Time 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.40 National Announcements 6.45 BBC Newsreel 7. 0 For the Sportsman Station Announcements 7.15 After Dinner Music 7.30 Evening Programme For the Bandsman 8. 0 Boston Promenade Orchestra, with interludes by the baritone John Charies Thomas 2.20 "Merry-Go-Round"

9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 "Strange Destiny" 1¢. 0 Supper Music 10.30 "Carols by Candlelight": Combined Choirs of Napier and’ Hastings (From the Botanical Gardens) 12. 0 Close down

NELSON ORIN) isa ke. 224 mm, 7. Op.m. Holiday Sports Fixtures "The Sparrows of London" 7.30 Light. Music 8.0 Concert Session symphony Orchestra Christmas Overture Taylor 8. 5 The BBC Chorus The First Nowell Good Christian Men, Rejoice While Shepherds ~ Watched ey Their Flocks Trad. Wilhelm BacKhaus (piano) Pastorale from Christmas Oratorio Bach 8.18 Arthur Fiedler’s Sinfonietta Christmas Symphony Schiassi

8.26 "The Old Rocking Chair’: Nostalgic melodies ofthe Victorian and Edwardian era, compered by Christopher Stone (BBC Programme) 8.56 Harry Davidson and his Orchestra Polka © Grossmith 9.4 Grand Opera is London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted «by» Sir Thomas Beecham Don Giovanni Overture Mozart 9.10 Dennis Noble (baritone) with’ the HaHe Orchestra ‘con-_ ducted by Warwick Braithwaite A Maiden Fair and Slender I’m the Factotum Rossini 9.18 Galli-Curei, Homer, Gigli, De Liea, Pinza, Bada (sextet) What Restrains Me? Donizetti "9.92 Grand Opera Orchestra Faust Ballet Music Gounod °9.30 Beniamino Gigli (tenor) Hleavenlv Aida Verdi

Joan Hammond (soprano) With Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Walter Susskind How Wondrous, How Wondrous Verdi Mimi’s Farewell Puccini 9.42 Christmas Eve Selections Frank Hutchens and = Lindley Evans (piano duet) Christmas Bells Hutchens Vienna Boys’ Choir French, indian and. Tyrolean Carols. arr. Gomboz Alfredo Cainpolf and his Orehestra : Christmas. Fantasy 10. 0 Close down

GISBORNE CMG) ation srs 7. Op.m. Variety 7.45 Grand Hotel: Music by Albert Sandler and his Palm Court Orchestra (BBC Production) i 8.15 Charlie Chester in "Stand Easy" (BBC Production) 8.45 "Departure Delayed" 9. 0 Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra 9.30 Swine Parade

0.0 Close down NV / CHRISTCHURCH 3 690kc 434m.}. 6. 0,7.0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS 7.58 Canterbury Weather Forecast 9. 4 Morning Programme ~ 9.30 Music of the Masters: Introductions and Polonaise Brillante, by Chopin, played by William Pleeth (’cellist) and Margaret Good (pianist) 10. 0 Mainly For Women: In This Week’s Overseas News: A Background to Current Affairs 10.10 Operatic Memories 10.30 Devotional Seryice 10.45 Music While You Work 411.145 "The Holberg Suite," by Grieg, played by the London String Orchestra 41.30 "Carmen" Selection by Reginald Foort (organist) 11.37 New iteleases 42 0 Lunch Musie

2. Op.m. Music While You. Work 2.30 Mainly For Women: With the Mobile Microphone 2.45 "Warts," talk by kathleen 8. Todd 3. 0 CLASSICAL HOUR Choral and Orchestral Concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Serenade to Music Williams Music for Strings Bliss Blest Pair of Sirens Parry 4.0 The Kentucky Minstrels 4.20 Strauss Waltzes played by the Debroy Somers Band 4.30 Children’s Hour 5. 0. Early Evéning’ Melodies 5.15 Songs of Good: Cheer: Peter Dawson’s Christmas Party 6.0 Dinner Music 8,30 LONDON NEWS 6.40 National Announcements 6.45 BBC Newsreel 7. 0 Local News Service

7.15 "The Humour of Christmas," a special broadcast written by Emily Baizeen 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by" Sir Henry J. Wood A Children’s Ovsidure Quilter 7.43 The Don Cossacks’ Choir Christmas Carol ; ° arr. Gogotzky 7.47 Frank Hutchens and Lind- ~ Jey Evans (duo pianists) Christmas Bells Hutchens 7.50 Georges -Thill (tenor)» Noel, Op. 43 ‘Faure 7.54 Ek. Power Biggs (organ) Jesus. Prieeless Treasure . A Babe is Born in Bethlehem 8. 0 Welcome Yule: The Songs and Legends of Europe, by Myra Thomson (soprano) with Bessie Pollard (pianist) ‘ 8.15 Philadelphia Orchestra ne ducted by. Stokowski, Trenscrepe ot . Music « by Sach

8.30 «+ ‘This Christmas: A_ Perennial Problem’: What. people in different walks of lifé have to say about it (NZBS Production) 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Royal Christchurch Musical Society and Gladys Vincent (violin), conducted by Cc. Foster Browne "Before the Paling of the Stars" Dale 3.50 "Home Thoughts’: Music and verse recalling an’ early N.Z. Christmas Eve . 10.30 "ITMA" ' (BBC Transcription)

11.0 LONDON NEWS c 11.15 Christmas: Party » with Music for. Daneing ; 12. 0 Midnight Prayer: Rev; L, H, Jenkins, Principal N.Z. Baptist College 12. 5 a.m. MIDNIGHT MASS: St. Michael’s Church Preacher: The Most Reverend the Lord Archbishop of N.Z., Dr. C. W. West-Watson Organist and Choirmaster; Clifton Cook 1. 0 (approx.) Close down

Y/' CHRISTCHURCH 3) S 960 ke. 312m. 4.30 p.m. Light Listening 6. 0 Melodies from Concert Hall and Musical Comedy 6.30 Seasonable Songs ai. @ Mood Indigo 7.15 Just So Stories: The Elephant Child 7.30 Radio ,Theatre: ‘"Loyalties" 8.0 Strike Up the Band 3. 0 Highlights from Opera 9.30 "Stand Easy" 10.0 The Sammy Kaye Orches10.15 Jazzmen 70.30 Close down | YZ GREYMOUTH ié 920 ke. 326m, 7. 0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS Breakfast session 9.4 Morning Variety 9.31 Composer of the Weeks Wagner 10. O Devotional. Service 40.20 Morning Star: Rarry Wood

10.30 Music While You Work 11. 0 Home Science Talk: Preserving, Answers to -Common Questions : 11.15 Morning Serenade 11.45 Sweet Style Rhythm 12. 0 Lunch Music 2.0 p.m. Cinema Organists 2.15 Variety 3. 0 Classical Music "Crown of India’ Suite Elgar 3.19 Overture to School for Scandal Barber 3.30 Music While You Work 4.0 Orghestras and Ballads 4.30 Children’s Session: "In the Days ‘of the Black 'Prince" 5. 0 Dance Music 5.30 Dinner Musie . Sports Review (0. J. Mors 4 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 Station Announcements 7.15 "OMmecer Crosby" . o ris) 30

DOMINiON WEATHER FORECASTS 7.20 a.m., 9.0, 12.35 p.m., 9.0, 1YA, 2YA, 3YA, 4YA, 2YZ, 3YZ, 4YZ.

7.30 Evening Programme From Musical Comedy and Operetta 8. 0 "Carry On, Clem Dawe" 8.28 The Leader of the Band: Louis Levy 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 "The Fellowship -of the Frog" (BBC Programme) 10. 0 Remember? Popular Tunes of the ’Thirties 40.30 Variety Half-Hour with Beatrice Kaye, the Jesters, and Mantovani’s Orchestra 41. 0 Those were the Days: Old Time Dance Music (BBC Programme) 11.46 In Quieter Mood

12. 0 Close down ANY 780kc 384m. 6. 0, 7.0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS Breakfast Session 9. 4 In the Music Salen 9.31 Music While You Work 10. 0 "The Irish Theatre," the second talk by James Crawford 40.20 Devotional Service 10.40 For My Lady: Horace Keats (Australia) 41. 0 Showtime: Music from Stage and Screen 41.30 Morning Star: James Melton (tenor) 411.46 Familiar/ Melodies: Solos and Choruses 12. 0 Lunch Music : 2. ip.ma The Lilt of the Waltz 2.30 Music While You Work 3. 0 "Only My Song"

3.30 CLASSICAL HOUR Concerto for Four Pianos and Orchestra Vivaldi-Bach Concerto Grosso in D Minor Vivaldi 4.0 "Comus" Ballet Suite Purcell, arr. Lambert 4.30 Children’s Hour: "Coral Island’"’ 5. 0 Songs by Men 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.40 National Announcements 6.45 BBC Newsreel. = Sports News 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME "ITMaA" (BBC Production) 8. 0 "Melody Cruise’: Dick Colvin and his Musie (Final broadeast for 1948)

(A- Studio Presentation) 20 "Dad and Dave" 44 The Golden Gate Quartet 58 Station Notices 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 35 "Phil the Fluter’’ (BBC Produetion) 9.55 "The Montague Pendant," one of the ‘Man from Hatton Garden" stories about famous jewels (BBC Production) 10.145 Benny Goodman and his Sextette 10.30 Dance Music 10.40 Organ Reveries 10.60 "To Bethlehem," a Christmas fantasia written by Anna Kirkwood with choruses .by the Coventry Singers. directed by George Wilkinson (A Studio Presentation) 11. 0 LONDON NEWS 11.20 Christmas Eve Service conducted by Prof. G. Knight (From the Concert Chamber) 12. Ba.m., Close down

GV odo NEDN, 4.30 p.m. Light Music 5. 0 Novatime 5.15 Film Favourites 5.30 Voicés in Harmony 5.45 Waltz Time 6. 0 Music of Latin. America 6.15 Bing Crosby 6.30 Something Old, Something New . 7. 0 Melodies from Manhattan 7.15 George Wright (Hammond organ) and Thomas Hayward (tenor) 7.30 Popular Parade 8. 0 British Music "Rethlehem," the story of the Nativity in folk opera form by Rutland Boughton (BBC Programme)

9. 0 Musie in. the Tanner Manner 9.30 The Passing Year, Dunedin’s Centenary in retrospect, a documentary traversing the chief events in musie and other entertainment during 1948 10. 0 A Christmas Garland Sir M. Sargent conducting the Symphony Orchestra A Christmas Overture Taylor 10. 5 Webster Booth (tenor) The ‘Little Road to Bethlehem Head 10. 8 Frank Hutchens = and Lindley Evans Christmas Bells Hutchens 10.41 Isobel Baillie (soprano) O Leave Your Sheep % Hazelhurst 10.14 Westminster Choir Christmas Memories 10.23 . Charles M. Courboin (organ) Silent Night, Holy Night ‘ 10.30 Close down Gruber

ON ECAB hares 2. 0 2.15 7.0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS Breakfast session 9.3 "Mrs. Parkington" 9.15 Morning Variety 9.30 "Health in the Home; Childhood Fears, Part 1 10. 0 Devotional Service 10.18 "Hollywood Holiday" 10.30 Music While You Work 41. 0 Morning Concert 12. 0 Lunch Music p.m. "The Power of the Dog" Classical Hour Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 ("Pathetique") ; Tchaikovski "Plantation Echoes" Music While’ You "Work English Interlude> The Voice of Romance

4.30 Children’s Hour: rd Children’s Ward, Public Hospital ; 5. 0 Hits from the Shows 5.30 Music for the Tea Hour 6. 0 Budget of. Sport , (from the Sportsman) 6.15 Songs from the Saddle 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.40 National Announcements 6.45 BBC Newsreel 7. 0 On the Dance Floor 7.30 "A Christmas Carol’: Basil Rathbone in a radio dramatization of Charles Dickens’s story 8. 0 London Symphony Orchesra "Nursery Suite" Elgar 8.15 "Carols" from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge 8.45 Readings from . Scarlet Pimpernel (BBC Production) 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z, News

9.20 Modern Variety 9.45 Popular Fallacies 10. 0 Racing Round-up, including Prospects for Monday at Gore 10.15 "Carry On, Clem Dawe" 10.42 Spike Jones and the City Slickers with Jimmy Durante 411.0 LONDON NEWS ' 11.10 4YZ Christmas Eve Dance 11.45 Songs of the Season with 4YZ Chortsters (Studio Broadcast) 12. 0 Close down

Friday, December 24

Local Weather Forecast from ZB’s: 7.32 a.m., 12.59 p.m., 9.30 p.m.

Local Weather Forecast from ZB’s: 7.32 a.m., 12.59 p.m., 9.30 p.m.

1ZB AUCKLAND 1070 ke. 280 m. 6. 0 a.m. Start the Day Right (Phil Shone) 8. 0 District Weather Forecast 9. 0 Morning Recipe Session 9.45 We Travel the Friendly Road with Jasper 10.0 My WHusband’s Love 10.15 Beloved Rogue 10.30 Sincerely, Rita Marsden 10.45 Marriage Register: One ") Heart 11.30 Shopping Reporter (dane). 12.0 Lunch Music 1.0 p.m. Variety 2.0 Stenomother

2.30 Women’s Hour (Marina), Sports News, Hobbies and Crafts, Week-end Entertainment, Health and Beauty 3.30 Light Orchestral interlude 3.45 Colour Musicale 4. 0 Christmas Medley 4.15 Tune to H.M.V. 4.30 Country Dance 4.45 Zoo Melodies EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Uncle Tom and the Merrymakers 6.30 Reserved 6.45 Something New ta2 The Quiz Kids 7.30 Secrets of Scotland Yard: Death in the River Lea 7.45 Sporting Opinion 8. 0 Hagen’s Circus 8.15 Ralph and Betty 8.45 Thundering Hooves 7 of Carols by Candlelight Week-end Sports Preview Omi Meredith) 10.15 Two Song and Dance Men: Bing and Fred 10.30 Don’t @et Me Wrong 10.45 11.0 A Cho ings Prelude to Christmas 12. 0 Salute to Christmas Day 1. 0am. Close down ce of Dance Record-

27ZB WELLINGTON 980 ke. 306 m. 6. 0 a.m. Breakfast Session 3. 0 Morning Recipe’ Session 9.30 Composer’s Gallery: _ Sebastian Bach 9.45 Ezio Pinza (bass) 10. 0 My Husband’s Love 10.15 Housewives’ Quiz (Marjorie) 10.30 Sincerely, Rita Marsden 10.45 Marriage Register: Sweet Corn 11. 0 Latin-American Rhythm 11.30 Shopping Reporter 12. 0 Musical Parade 2.0 p.m. Stepmother (first broadcast) 2.30 Women’s Hour (Elsie Lioyd), Sports News, Hobbies and Crafts, Health and Beauty, Week-end Entertainments, Notable Quotables 220 Afternoon Matinea

They Sing Together Waltz Serenade Organ Interlude The Music of Johann rauss What Luigi Fort Sings Spanish Dances News from the Zoo (Mr. C. J. Cutler) EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Variety Bandbox 6.30 The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss 45 The Sweetwood SerenadAARP SPH! = 2,0 ' 29: ers 7. 0 The Quiz Kids 7.45 Don John 8. 0 Hagen’s Circus 8.15 Ralph and Betty 9. 0 Secrets of Scotland Yard: The Case of the Absent-Minded Professor 9.30 On the Sweeter Side 10. 0 A Choice of Dance Record10. Sports Preview (George Edwards) 11. 0 Carols by Candlelight 11.30 Four Hands in Harmony 12. 0 For the Younger Generation 1. Oa.m. Close down

3ZB CHRISTCHURCH 1100 ke, 273 m. 6. Oa.m. Early and Bright 7. 0 Wake up and Whistle 8. 0 Breakfast Club (Happi Hill) 9. 0 Morning Recipe Session (Aunt. Daisy) 9.30 Ballads by John McCormack 10. 0 My Husband’s Love 10.15 Piano Parade: Solomon 10.30 Sincerely, Rita Marsden 10.45 Marriage Register: Gallant Sister 11.30 Shopping Reporter 412. 0 Music for Your Lunch Hour 2.0 pm. Miss Trent’s Children 2.30 Women’s Hour (Molly McNab) Sports News, Hobbies and Crafts, Week-end Entertainment, Health and Beauty, Notabte Quotables 3.30 Songs from Thrill of a

Romance 3.45 Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra 4.45 Children’s Session: The Junior Leaguers EVENING PROGRAMME 6. O Places and People 6.30 When Did This Happen 6.45 Tunes of the Times 7. 0 The Quiz Kids 7.45 Scrapbook 8. 0 Hagen’s Circus 8.15 Ralph and Betty 8.30 Spotlight on Popular Light Orchestras 9. 0 The Secrets of Scotland Yard: The Gutheridge Case 9.30 Concert in Miniature 10. 0 Sports Preview (The Toff) 10.20 The World of Motoring 11. 0 Yuletide Melodies 11.30 Fibber McGee and Molly 12. 0 Greetings from the Air 12. 5a.m. Carols by the Newton Salvation Army Band 1.0 Close down Trade names appearing in Com mercial Division programmes are published by arrangement.

47B DUNEDIN 1040 ke, 288 m. 6. 0 a.m. London News 6. 5 Start the Day Right 6.30 Whistle While You Wash 9. 0 Morning Recipe’ Session 9.30 From Deanna Durbin’s Films 9.45 Music in the Modern Manner 10. 0 My Husband’s Love 10.15 A Man and his House 10.30 Sincerely, Rita Marsden 10.45 Marriage Register: Flashback 11. 0 The Thesaurus Half-Hour 11.30 Shopping Reporter | 12. 0 Musical Menu 1. 0 p.m. Lunch Tunes 2/0 Miss Trent’s Children 2.30 Women’s Hour (Maureen McCormick). Sports News. Hob-

bies and Crafts, Week-end Entertainment, Health and Beauty, Notable Quotables (final broadcast) 4.30 Ethel Smith’s Flying Fingers 4.45 Pops of To-day 5. 0 Peter’s Christmas Party EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 On the Night Before Christmas: Fibber McGee and Molly, with Teeny 6.30 Heigh=-ho the Merry Oh y Ge The Quiz Kids 7.30 1948’s Tip Top Tunes 8. 0 Hagen’s Circus 8.15 Raiph and Betty 8.30 +1948 Introduced these Stars 8. 3. 45 Turning the Tables (final broadcast) i) Secrets of Scotiand Yard: The Emperor of Humbug 9.30 Music to Suit the Mood 10. 0 Silks and Saddles 10.30 Sporting Preview (Bernie McConnell) 11. 0 Party-time at 4ZB 12. 0 We Greet Christmas Day 12.15 a.m, More Music for the Party 1. Oa.m. Close down

fYf PALMERSTON Nth. 940 ke. 319 m, 7.15 cast 9. 0 9.30 9.45 10. 0 10.15 10.30 sion 11. 0 7. O a.m. Breakfast Session Dominion Weather Fore Morning Request Session Eugen Wolfe’s Orchestra Vocal Ensembles Tradesmen’s Entrance Real Life Stories Christmas Shoppers’ Seg (final broadcast) Close down EVENING PROGRAMME © 6. 0 6:30 ° 6.45 7.0 7.30 7.45 8. 0 Dinner Music Connie Boswell Sings Smooth Rhythm Quiz Kids Partners in Harmony First Light Fraser Returne Miss Trent’s Children

8.15 Ralph and Betty 8.30 Young Farmers’ Club (Ivan Tabor) 8.45 The Latest Dance Tunes 9. 0 The Secrets of Scotland Yard: The Babes in the Wood 9.32 Remember These? 9.45 Sports Preview (Fred Murphy) 10. 0 The Night Before Christe mas: Fred Waring’s Glee Club and Orchestra 10.30 Christmas Carol: Ronald Colman ‘ 11. 0 Jive and Joviality 12. 0 Christmas Greetings 1. 0am. Close down

Peter, of 4ZB, has a special treat for Dunedin children at 5 o’clock. Peter’s Christmas Party will be the Christmas Eve special for the children, concluding with a feature called "On the Night Before Christmas," starring Fibber McGee and Molly, with a little girl named Teeny.