THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 4

THINGS TO COME

: A Run Through The Programmes °

Economics of Housekeeping Most husbands will agree that their wives spend most of the money, but the housewife herself, struggling continually against spiralling prices and unexplained shortages, never thinks she has enough to spend on such simple household needs as food and clothing. She wants to know why prices won't) come down, why some things are not avail-able-and most of all, why she remains poor. Perhaps she will find the answers (if she lives within range of 3YA) in a series of four talks by Graham Miller and W. Rosenberg, of the Canterbury College staff. Their subject is economics -a word that seems to bristle with technicalities, but which can provide radio material as fascinating as most soap operas if presented by the right person. The first talk Why Some Commodities are Scarce will be heard from 3YA at 10.0 a.m. on Wednesday, April 20, and on the following Wednesday the answer is given to the question "Are Women Overworked?" For Lovers of Mozart N Auckland last year the pianist Gerhard Willner presented at public concerts ‘the whole of the 32 Beethoven sonatas. Now he is to broadcast from 2YA the 18 Mozart sonatas for pianoforte. The first will be heard on Thursday, April 21, and the femainder on succeeding Thursdays at 8.8 p.m. in two periods of six weeks, with a break ‘of about a month between each period. Mr. Willner believes that his recitals, particularly of some of the lesser-known sonatas, will give listeners a deeper understanding of the composer’s genius. During and after the last war,. Mr. Willner and his wife Dora (soprano) gave about 400 concerts for the Allied Forces in the Middle Eastmany of them in distant desert camps and hospitals. He also appeared as soloist with the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra and the Middle East Symphony Orchestra. For the Egyptian State Broadcasting Service, he presented, among other works, a series of six recitals_entitled "Lesser-known Piano Works of the Great Masters," and another series of six on "Masters of Song of Three Centuries." From the Ground Up peed 4YA’s Winter Course Talks So You're Building a House should get away to a fine start when J. E, P. Murphy, Lecturer in Design at the Otago Home Science School, lays the foundation stone with his initial talk on Siting. Listeners may be familiar with Mr. Murphy as a radio speaker, as he’ has already dealt with "Furnishing the Home" in an earlier series of talks in the Home Journal session. "Siting" may pot appear quite so bleak a topic to the Dunedinite as to the Wellingtonian, but bleak or not the site is father to the house, and the house must modify itself to the demands of the site. Choosing one’s site no longer provides the weeks of agent-directed excursion once

so normal and pleasant a feature of early-married life, and sites, like families, are no longer as large or as sheltered as they used to be. All the more reason then for guidance, and we hope

that Mr. Murphy will be able to give it to us with, his own happy blend of wit and erudition. His talk will be heard from 4YA at 7.15 on Tuesday, April 19.

Legendary Saint AINT GEORGE, the legendary knight who became patron saint of England in the reign of Edward III, was born George of Lydda, the Christian son of a Palestine nobleman, and was tortured and put to death about the year 300 for refusing to offer sacrifice to the gods of Rome. During the Crusades he was said to have been seen leading hosts of angels to victory against the heathen. But what connection had he with the fairy-tale George-who was adopted by the enchantress Kalyb--who was born with "the living image of a dragon glowing on his breast, in his right hand a blood red cross, and on his left leg a golden garter," and who later slew in Egypt a dragon "from shoulder to tail full 40 feet, its body covered with silver scales, its belly of gold, and through whose flaming wings the blood ran thick and red?" At 8.0 p.m. on St. George’s: Day (Saturday, April 23), 2YA will tell the story of the historical and the legendary Georges and try to trace the connection between them in a special dramatized programme called The Golden Legend. . Sunday Specials OR ‘those who find the front-room fire the best place on a winter’s day 3YA is planning several groups of talks for Sunday afternoon broadcasting during the coming months. They include A Map of New Zealand, which will tell the story of the map from the first visits of early navigators to the filling in of final gaps which exist in such places as Fiordland, and Men at Work, in which representatives of various occupations will come to the microphone to describe their way of life. The first talks in this series will be on Modern Painting, and are scheduled to begin on Sunday, April 24, when James Masterton will talk on "The Modern Painter." On the following Sunday Margaret Frankel will be dealing with the work of some of the Moderns, and later John Summers will discuss painting in contemporary society. All broadcasts will begin at 2.30 p.m.

Heaven's Island 2OR some eighty-odd years Lundy Island, which lies athwart the approaches to the Bristol Channel, was known as the Kingdom of Heaven, as it prospered under the ownership of a father and son of that name. Even today the inhabitants of Lundy can be counted among the blessed, for they pay no rates or taxes, there is no policeman, nor are there any licensing laws, Lundy, although its human population is tiny, is full of interest, as you can hear from the talk by L. A. Harvey in the’ BBC’s Islands of Britain series to be heard from 2YA at 3.15 p.m. on Sunday, April 24. It has a particular attraction for naturalists, as butterflies and sea-birds are found there in great variety. The Return of Philip Odell ISTENERS who enjoyed the adventures of Philip Odell when he joined the company of radio detectives in Lady in a Fog (currently being heard from 2YD), have the chance of meeting him again in a new serial thriller from the BBC. This time he is called in to enquire into The Odd Story of Simon Ode, and a very odd story is turns’ out to be. A successful writer of crime novels starts receiving threats against his life, which may not seem altogether unusus!. What is unusual, however, is that they apparently come from the arch criminal whom he himself created in his books. And there seems to be more than a little reason for believing that there is some foundation for this fantastic idea. That is the problem that faces Odell in episode one, and by the time episode eight is reached he has gone through some pretty exciting times. The script was written by Lester Powell and the production is by Martyn C. Webster and Ayton Whitaker. Robert Beatty, the Canadian actor who created the part of Philip Odell in Lady in a Fog, again heads the cast. The Odd Story of Simon Ode starts from 4YZ at 8.15 p,m. on Sunday, April 24. :