Saturday, January 1

New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 496, 24 December 1948, Page 36

Saturday, January I

| Y /e\ Aue 400m. 8. 0,7.0,8,.0am, LONDON NEWS Results of N.Z. Chess Champlonships 2 4 Entertainers’ All 10. 0 , Devotions: The Rev. R. L. Challis 710.20 For My Lady: Famous Women, Zenubla, Queen of the East 41. 0 Auckland Racing Club commentary Commentaries Plunket Shield Match Auckland y. Otago throughout the ,day 42.0 \Lunch Music 2.0 p.m. Khythms in Relays 2.30 Light and bright Tunes 3.30 .- Sports Results 5. 0 . Children’s Hour: ‘Tammy Troot visits Edinburgh" (BBC Programme) 6.46 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 Local News Service 7,30 EVENING PROGRAMME The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter Goridlan Overture, Op. 62 Beethoven 7.38 The Glasgow Orpheus Cheir conducted by Sir Hugh Roberton Belmont Hymn The Herdmaiden’s Song (Old Gaelic Air) arr. Roberton 1 Live not Where I Love arr. Shaw All in the April Evening Roberton 7.52 Reginald Kell (clarinet) Gigue arr. Kell (Sonata in F) 4 A Review of 1948 -, The Charles Brill Orches"poirees Musicals Rossini-Britten B.57 Station Notices 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Musical Comedy Theatre: _ "Monsieur Beaucaire" 10. 0 Sports Summary 40.10 Dance Music 411. 0 LONDON NEWS 411.20 Clouse down

"CS 880 ke. 341m 6. 0.p.m. Symphony Hour 6. 0 Tea Dance 6.30 Tunes of the Times 7.0 After Dinner Music 8.0 Scapegoats of History: Gordon of Khartoum 8.30 In Sweeter Vein 9. a Music by Byrd and Purce ‘The London Chamber Orchestra Ayres for the Theatre _ _ Purcell 9.9 The Cambridge Madrigal Society Though Amaryllis Dance in Green This Sweet and Merry Month Byrd 9.17 Rudolf Dolmetsch (harp‘sichord) Suite in G Minor Purcell ee) Keith Faulkner (barieats Music be the Food of Love bes Purcell Wanda Landowska (DAR ‘sichord) W aap Astra (cout ‘om "Rosy Bowrs Purcell one. ae Boyd Nee] "3 0.40 ‘Witham Walton pee ‘and the Chicago Symny Orchestra -Sewpino,- a couledy overture" So pai Philharmonic acade" e No, 2 » pon ate and the ‘BBC pueke " Does the Uttered Music Go? 46. 3 Primrose with Walton and the Philharmonia Orchestra Concerto for Viola and Orch estra 10.30 Close down

UY D eee 41. Oa.m. The Light Programme 1. Op.m. Cavalcade of Variety 5:-0 «Songs from the» Shows 5.30 Sweet Serenade 6. 0 Musical Memories 6.15 "The Valley of Fear," by Conan Doyle 6.30 Music from the Salon 7. 0 Glenn Miller and his’ Orchestra with Lena-Horne 7.30 Much Binding in the Marsh (BBC Programme) 8. 0 Let’s Dance 470. O Variety Concert Hall 11. 0 Close down

WELLINGTON} QVC \sroie. 526m 6. 0, 7.0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS Breakfast Session 8. 0 N.Z. Chess Championships 9. 4 Popular Parade 9.19 A Band Programme 9.30 Local Weather Conditions 9.31 Morning Star: Luciehne Boyer (soprano) 9.40 Music While You Work 40.10 Devotional Service 40.25 Quiet Interlude 40.40 For My Lady: Music is Served 41.0 Plunket Shield Cricket: Commentaries during day Wariety 41.30 Cinema Organ Music 41.45 Musical Comedy Favourites 4.. 0 Lunch Music N.Z. Minor Gricket Association Trial Match: . Progress scores throughout day

2. Op.m. 2YA’s Sporting Roundup: Commentaries on Plunket Shield cricket and chief racing events 6. 0 Plunket Shield Cricket Summary Sports Results 6.15 Dinner Music 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7G Sports Results 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME The Gracie Fields Programme 8. 0 It’s a Date: A weekly invitation in which you can keep 4 date with all types of entertainment 3.28 Have a Go! The Wilfred Pickles Quiz Show (BBC Production) é 9.0 Overseas and N.Z. News

0 Music by Tchaikovski The "Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paul Van Kempen Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71 8.22 Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens Symphony No, 2 in C Minor, Op. 117 (The "Little Russian’’) 0 Symphonic Music San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Monteux Symphony on a French pars tain Air D’indy 9.24 L’Orchestre de la Societe du Conservatoire de Paris conducted by Charles Munch Fervaal, Preiude to Act 14 D’indy 9.28 Boston Symphony oOrchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitsky 5 La Mer ~™ Debussy 10. 0 Music ‘Im the Tanner Manner 10.30 Close down

PAWEL 7. Op.m. You Asked For It 10. O District Weather Report Close down 2 >(e) NEW PLYMOUTH 1370 kc. 219m 6.30 p.m. Children’s Session 7.15 Favourite Fairytales 7.30 Sports Session 8..0 Concert Session 8.30 ‘The Shy Plutocrat" 9. 5 BBC Feature 10. 0 Close down

NAPIER RYVz 860 kc. 349m, 7. 0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS | Results of N.Z. Chess Championships 9.5 Morning Programme 9.30 "The Barrier" 10.15 Stars on Parade 10.30 Master Music 11. 0 Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club: Commentaries throughout the day 12. 0 Lunch Music 1.30 p.m. Race Summary Sai Afternoon Variety 4.30 Race Summary 5. 0 Children’s session: Aunt Helen 5.30 Tea Dance 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.15 Race Results 6.30 LONDON NEWS "Oo Sports Results Station Announcements After Dinner Music 7.30 Evening Programme "Stand Easy," featuring Charlie Chester and his Crazy Gang 8. 0 Strauss Polkas played by the Boston Promenade Orchestra 8.15 Victor Male Chorus 8.30 "Crowns of England" (first broadcast) 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Romance in Rhythm 10.16 District Sports Roundup 10.30 Close down QKN] 1340 ke. 224 m, 7. Op.m. Listeners’ Own session 7.20 Local Sports Results 8.30 "The Green Archer’’ 9. 4 The Richard Tauber Programme Richard Tauber. sings to accompaniment of George Melachrino and pianist Perey Kahn with Henry Holst. (violin) (BBC Programme) 9.34 Al Goodman and his Orchestra Only a Rose Frim! Lew White (organ) To a Wild Rose To a Water Lily MacDowell 9.43 Allan Jones (tenor) Begin the Beguine Why Shouldn’t 1? Porter 9.51 David Rose and his Orchestra What is This "Thing Called Love Porter Manhattan Square Dance Rose Easy to Love Porter 10. 0 Close down AKG bite me es 7. Op.m. Children’s session 7.50 "The House That Margaret Built" 8.15 Spotlight on Music 8.45 "Barnaby Rudge" 8. 0 #£Excerpts from Musical Comedy and Light Opera 9.30 Scenes from Notable British Films of the Last War 9.45 Piano Recital by Benno Moiseiwitsch 10. 0 Close down 3 Y 690kc 434m. 6. 0, 7.0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS Results of N.Z. Chess Championships 7.58 Canterbury Weather Forecast 9. 4 "Folies Berserque"’ 9.30 . Ye Olde Time Music Hall 10. 0 Waltzing to Irving Berlin 10.10 Musical Comedy Stars: Mary Martin (U.S.A.) 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Canterbury Park Trotting Club commentaries 41. 0 S.I, Minor Cricket Associations: Further commentaries 2.0, 2.45, 3:20, 4.15, 5.4 He 0 Tage ay ~ p.m. Tts Summary 2.15 Bright Music 4.30 Sports Results

5. 0 Children’s Hour: Fairy Tales and ‘Coral Cave" 6. 0 Dinner Music¢ 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.40 National Announcements 6.45 BBC Newsreel 7. 0 Local News Service 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME Peter Yorke and his Concert Ore chestra Ivor Novello Melodies Noyello 7.34 Sir Ralph Richardson reads "The Hunting of the Snark,’ by Lewis Carroll (BBC Transcription) 7.49 Ambrose and his Orchestra Swing Low Sweet Clarinet Mourant 7.52 Eddie Heywood (pianist) Sweet and Lovely Lemare 7.55 "ITMA" (BBC Transcription) 8.25 Musical Comedy Theatre: "San Toy" Sidney Jones 8.54 Andre kostelanetz and his Orchestra 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Northumbrian Barn Dance (BBC Transcription) 10. O District Sports Summary 10.156 Modern Dance Music 11. 0 LONDON NEWS 11.20 Close down SVG CHRISTCHURCH 960 kc. 312m, Light Orchestras . Op.m. . 0 ~ Australian Concert Artists a salon Concert Players . 0 r.. Tunes for the Teatable New Tunes for the New r 45. Just So Stories: "The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo and How the Came) Got His Hump" 6.30 Concert Time 7.46 "Victoria, Queen of England" 8. 0 Symphonic Programme The NBC Symphony Orchestra pat by Leopold Stokows Russian Easter Festival Overture Rimsky-Korsakov 8.13 Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks Strauss 8.29 The Halle Orchestra conducted by Leslie Heward Symphony No. 103 in E Flat (Drum Roll) Haydn 8.54 The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati The Hundred Kisses Ballet Suite D’Erlanger 9,11 Cyril Smith (piano), and the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent Variations on a Nursery Theme Dohnanyi 9.34 National Symphony orchestra conducted by Anatole Fistoulari March Slav, Op. 31 _ Tohaikovski 9.38 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Felix Weingartner Symphony No, 8 in F Beethoven 10. 2 Humour and Harmony 10.30 Close down 8 Y 920 kc. 326m 7. 0, 8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS ' Results of N.Z. Chess Championships 9. 0 Request Session Favourites 41. 0 Greymouth Jockey Club’s Commentaries Throughout Day 12. 0 Announcements Lunch Music 2. O0p.m. First Sports Summary Holiday Matinee 4.45 Second Sports Summary 5. 0 Children’s Session 5.30 Dancing Time | 6. 0 "Simon. the Coldheart" 6.15 Sporting Information N 6.30 Ews . O° Station Announcements Third Sports Summary 7.30 Evening Programme Easy to Remember, with tlte BBC Revue Chorus, the Dance Orchestra and Soloists 8.0 "Mr. and Mrs, North"

OOMIN.ON WEATHER FORECASTS 7.16 am., 9.0, 12.30 p.ms 9.0, 1YA, 2YA, 3VA, SYA. 2vz, 3vZ, 4YZ.

9.30 Melodies from British Radio: Merry Go Round melodies by George Crow and his Blue Mariners Dance Band 10. O Sports Summary 10.10 Make Believe Ballroom Time 11. 0 LONDON NEWS. 11.20 Close down QYVS WELLINGTON | 1. 0p.m. Lunch Music 2. 0 Saturday .Matinee 3. 0 Variety Parade 5. 0 Children’s Session:, New Year Programme, with Uncle Ernest and Tom Thumb 6. 0 The Symphony of Music 6.30 Concert Platform: The Max Hollander Strings, Thomas L. Thomas, and Al and Lee Reiser 6.55 The Story of the Music: Moussorgsky’s "Pictures From an Exhibition" 7.30 "Phantom Fleet," a naval adventure story (BBC Production)

8.30 Serenade 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Saturday Night Variety 10. O Final Sports Summary 10.12 bancing to Freddy Martin 10.30 Close down $ da\ 7 /\ DUNEDIN | 780ke 384m) 6. 0, 7.0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS Resuits of N.Z. Chess Championships 9.4 Tunes of the Times 9.15 Tenor Time 10. O Music for All: Delibes 10.20 bevotional Service * 10.40 For My Lady: ‘Miss Susie Slagles"’ 411. 0 Fiano Time 11.16 ‘Songs of the Islands 41.30 Variety 12. O Sports Announcements 12. 6p.m. Lunch Music 1.0 sports Announcements a. © Local Weather Conditions 2.1 Saturday Afternoon Matinee 2.15 Sports Summary No. 14 4.45 Sports Summary 6. 0 Children’s Hour 5.45 Dinner Musie 6. 5 Sports Results 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.40 National Announcements 6.45 BBC Newsreel v Bees Sports Summary No. 3 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME The London Radio Orchestra, conducted by Denis Wright The Tempest Overture Sullivan Cherry Ripe arr. Bridge Songs of the Trish Trad. Children’s Ballet and March: (Things to Come)’ Bliss Sevillana Elgar (BBC Production)

_ 8.0 International Variety Stage: Song, melody, and humour from artists of many countries 9.-0 Overseas and N.Z. News 10. 0 Sports Results 10.10 Dance Music 11. 0 LONDON NEWS 11.20 Close down [ZNVE ,DUNEDIN | | 900 ke. 333m. ‘5. O p.m. Saturday Proms 5.45 The Allen Roth Show 6. 0 Danee Music i

6.30 Light Orchestras and Bal- | lads 7. 0 Popular Parade 7.30 . Frankie Carle 7.45 Harmony and Humour 8.15 ‘Sweet Strings 8.30 Victoria, Queen of England 9. 0 Classical Music The Adolf Busch Chamber Players (flute, Marcel Moyse) , Suite No. 2 in B Minor Bach 9.22 Lili Kraus (piano), Simon Goldberg (violin), Anthony Pini ('’eello) Trio in E Flat, No. 5 Haydn

9.38 Aubrey Brain (horn) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult Concerto in E Flat, K.447 Mozart 10. O Light and Bright 10.30 Close down AWN 74 720 ke. 416m, '7. 0, 8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS Results of N.Z. Chess Cham- | pionships 9. 3 Songs of the West (9.16 Variety Roundup /10. 0 Devotional Service 10.15 In Quiet Mood 10.30 Health in the Home: Childhood Fears 10.33 ‘‘krazy Capers" 11. 0 "To* Have and to Hold" 11.30 "Wyndham Racing Club: Commentaries during day 11.40 Songs for Sale 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. 0 p.m. In Holiday Mood 2.30 Racing Summary 4.45 Racing Summary 5.16 Children’s Hour: "Matilda Mouse"’ ; 5.30 Music for the Tea Hour 6. 5 Racing Results 6.10 Crosby Time 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreel 7. 0 Sports Results 7.30 "Let the Navy Try" (BBC Programme)

‘8. 0 Old Time Dance Music with Harry Davidson and his Orchestra ~ 8.30 "Merry-Go-Round" 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.20 Music Hath Charms 10. O Sports Summary, including racing prospects for Monday 10.30 Close down

Saturday. January I

Sports Sammaries: 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,

1ZB AUCKLAND 1070 ke, 280 m. 6. 0 a.m, Music for a Leisure Morning 8. 0 District Weather Forecast 8.15 Sports Preview 9.50 The Friendly Road with Traveller 10. 0 Three Hits and a Miss 10.15 Variety 11.30 Bing Crosby 12. 0 Music 12.30 p.m. Sports Postponements Gardening Session (John Henry) 4.:0 Light Music and Variety 2.:0 Sports Summary every Half-hour a2 Priority Parade (Hilton Porter) 2.30 Music and Sports News 3.15 New Recordings 4.30 Sports Summary The Milestone Club (Thea) 5. 0 The Sunbeam Session 5.30 Junior Jury | EVENING PROGRAMME | 6. 0 Reseryed 6.15 The Sea Rover 6.30 Walter, the Boy Wonder _ 6:45 Sports Results (Bill Meredith) 7.6 Please Play for Me 7.30 British Music and Artists 7.45 A. J. Alan’s Stories: Charles 8. 0 Money-Go-Round | 8.30 What’s New in Records 8.45 Thundering Hooves 9.0. Penelope | 9.15 Music for the Saturday Stay -at-Homes | 10. O Music that Will Live 10.30 Juke-Box Serenade 10.45 Sinister Man 11. 0 Design for Dancing 12. 0 Close down

27B WELLINGTON 980 ke. 306 m. 6. 0 a.m. Start the New Year 8.15 Sports News /8.30 Kingsway Symphony 9.15 Hula Tunes 9.30 Eddie Duchin (piano) 9.45 Radio Rhythm 10. 0 Gardening Session (Snowy) 10.15 Housewives’ Session (Mar- : jorie) 10,30 Melody Mixture 410.45 Burl ives | 41. 0 Jack Simpson Sextet 11. 15 Novatime Trio (11.30 Sports Cancellations 0 Bright Lunch Music | 12.30. p.m. Sports Cancellations 2.0 °° Sports Results every HalfHour 2.15 Matinee: Ethel Smith 2.30 Vocalist Time ~ 3.0 In a Billy Mayer! Manner 3.15 Four Songs by Buddy Clarke 3. -30 They Make us Laugh 4.0 Hawaii Calls 4.30 Vocal Ensembles 5.0 Way Out West 6.15 News from the Zoo 5.30 Rhythm Rascals EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Star Variety Bill 6.15 The Sea Rover 6.30 Hits from Musical Shows 6.45 Sports Session 7. 0 Please Play for Me 7.30 British Artists and British) Music 4 7.45 Don John 8. 0 Money-Go-Round 8.30 What’s New in Records 8.45 Masters of Song 9. 0 Whispers in Tahiti 9.15 The Latest Recordings 10. 0 Music that Will Live 11. 0 Old: Time Dances 411.15 Modern Airs 12. 0 Close down

37B CHRISTCHURCH 1100 ke, 273 m. ; : 6. O am. First Day of the Year 8.0 Breakfast Club 8.15 Sports Session 9. 0 Morning Matinee: Popular Hits o 1946 10.15 Movie Magazine 10.30° Paging Peter Yorke and _ Al Goodman 10.45 Seienade for New Year’s Day 11. 0 Everybody’s Favourites 11.30 Sports Cancellations For the Week-end Gardener 12. 0 Lunch Music 12.15 p.m. Vegetable Growing in | the Home Garden 12.30 Sports Cancellations Screen Snapshots 1.15 Rhythm Cocktail 2. 0 Sports Summaries’ every half-hour At Your Service 2.15 Hawaiian Harmony 2.30 Carroll Gibbons Looks Back 3. 0 Carmen Cavallaro 3.15 The Ghost Corps 3.30 Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, and Perry Como 4. 0 Keep the Tempo Bright 4.30 Sports Summary Children’s Hour: Garden Circle 4.45 Long, Long Ago 5. 0 Kiddies’ Concert EVENING PROGRAMME Reserved The Sea Rover Let’s Get Together Please Play for Me British Music and Artists Limelight and Shadow Money -Go-Round What’s New in Records? Saturday Night Showcase Whispers in Tahiti Claude Thornhill and his POD Sax ocoucoogo rth «irk page 22 Ro ~a a et Pree at avo ook 20 chestra 0 Cyril Fletcher Fats Waller Saturday Night Shuffle Close down

) 47B DUNEDIN / 1040 ke, 288 m. |\6..0 a.m. London News |6.15 A Happy New Year to All |7.35 Morning Star \8.15 Sportscast |8.45 Scottish New Year Melo- | dies '9.30 South Sea Serenades: Ray ) Andrade’s Orchestra (9.45 Slim Bryant and his Wild- | cats 110. 0 Coming Up: Mr. 1949 10.45 1948 Frankie Carle Releases 11.0 On the Moonbeam with Vaughn Monroe 11.30 Easy to Remember \1. Op.m. Of Interest to Men | (Bernie McConnell) 1.30 Latin Favourites by Pedro ps Vargas 1.45 Music in the Modern Manner (2.15 Joseph Schmidt, Tenor 2.30 The Orchestra Raymonde 2.45 Sing, Vera Lynn 3. oO A Half-hour Mixture 3.30 Songs of Romance 3.45 Box-office Bumpers from ‘Broadway 4.15 Our Gracie on the Air 4.30 Stop Press on Sport 4.45 Children’s Hour (Peter) EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Piano Reveries with Joe Reichman 6.15 The Sea Rover 6.30 Journey into Melody 6.45 Sports Results (Bernie McConnell) y £8 Please Play for Me 7.30 British Artists and Music 8. 0 Money -Go-Round 8.30 What’s New in Records 8.45 A. J. Alan Stories: ' The Diver ¢ 9. 0 Whispers in Tahiti 9.15 The Beatrice Lillie Souvenir Album 9.30 Friml Melodies 9.45 Rumba de Cuba 10. 0 Tales of the Silver Greyhounds 10.30 &11.20 Dance Music from the Town Hall 12. 0 Close down ---- .

27, PALMERSTON Nth. 940 ke. 819 m. 7. O a.m. Breakfast Session 7.15 Dominion Weather Fofe= 8.15 Sports Preview 9. 0 Morning Request Session 3.30 With a Smile and a Song 10. 0 London Palladium Orchegtra 10.15 Let’s Sing a Gay Song 10.30 Vernon Geyer 10.45 Comedy Corner 11. 0 Al Kealohe Perry and his Singing Surf Riders 11.15 Variety Parade 11.30 Sports Cancellations 12.25 p.m. Sports Cancellations 12.30 Dominion Weather Forecast 2. 0 Sports Summaries every half-hour a4 Popular Artists on Parade Richard Crean ‘Orchestra The Jesters Carroll Gibbons (pianist> Variety Roundup Accent on Rhythm Songs for Sale Long, Long Ago Songs for the Children EVENING PROGRAMME Trans-Atlantic Melodies Victor Male Chorus The Versatile Eddie Duchin Sports Results Your Music and Mine The Moon and Sixpence British Music and Artists Waltz Favourites Money-Go-Round fausic that will Live Whispers in Tahiti Juke Box Favourites On the Dance Floor Close down TITS ww wr RS ncSHeh SL OLOLMNANNDADH Sos & Bw BoX se er eGere ~ -- --

New Year's Day sporting evenis wilt be given a complete coverage commencing with late sportS news, including details of the weather, at 8,15 a.m. Keep tuned to your local Commercial Station for up-to-the-minute results.

Trade names appearing in. Com mercial Pivision programmes are published by arrangement —

Something novel and unusual is promised Canterbury listeners in to-night’s 6.30 session presented by Happi Hill in "‘Let’s Get Together" from 3ZB.