Sunday, December 25

New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 547, 16 December 1949, Page 45

Sunday, December 25

INCA 70K 400m 6. 0,7.0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS 8.31 Orchestral Music 11. 0 ANGLICAN SERVICE Preacher: Rt. Rey. S, J. Simkin, Bishop of Auckland 2 Organist: Dr, No G. Stephenson 12. 6p.m. Light Orchestras and Ballads 12.30 Christmas messages from the Prime | Minister and the Leader of the Opposi-| tion 1.0 Dinner Muste &."3 The Reith Lectures: "Social Cohe-. sion and Government," by Bertrand Russell, F.R.S,. 2.29 Highlights from + the Primary Schools Music Festival, 1949 2.45 London . Philharmonic Orchestra_ Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 Grieg 3. 1 Music in Miniature (BBC Programme) 3.30 GEORGE E. WILSON (organist) (From St. Matthew’s Church) 4. 0 "Quietly History Enters," a Nativity play by John Gundry (NZBS Production) 5. 0 Children’s Song Service 6. 0 Carnegie Hall (Voiee of America Programme) : 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreel 7. 0 PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE, conducted by the Rey. R. N. Alley (From the Studio) 8.5 EVENING PROGRAMME Carols from the King’s College Chapel, Cambridge; from the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols (BBC Programme) 8.35 London Philharmonic Orchestra. Overture: The Silken Ladder Rossini 8.45 Sunday Evening Talk 8. 0 Overseas News 9.12' Weekly News Summary in Maort 933 "The Christmas~ Child," a modern Nativity play in verse by D. G. Bridson. 11. 0 LONDON NEWS : 11.20 Close down | Y Cc 880 kc. 341 m. 6. Op.m. "A Christmas Carol,’’ a drama- ' tisation of the story by Charles Dickens, with Alfred Shirley as Scrooge, and carols by the Seagle Singers a A Light Concert 46 "Old Wives’ Tale" . 0 Play: "Round about this Time," a Christmas story by D’Arcy Niland (NZBS Production) 9.30 The Boston. Promenade Orchestra 10. 0 Close down lJ Y, D) 1250 ke. 240 m. 10. 0 a.m. Enter Christmas; Sacred Selections 970.30 Christmas Day Concert: Light Popular Classics 12. 0 Let’s Have a Chorus, followed by "Mr. Pickwick’s Christmas," narrated by Charles Laughton 1.0 p.m. Songs by Richard Tauber and Miliza Korjus 1.30 Favourite Waltz Melodies 2.15 Eileen Joyce at the Keyboard 2.30 "A Charlies Dickens’ Christmas," presented by Bransby* Williams and Company ‘ 2.45 Marek Weber’s Orchestra 3. 0 Hospital Requests 5. 0 Radio Bandstand 5.30 Light Orchestral Interlude 5 5.45 Royal Choral Society conducted by Sir Maleolm Sargent 6. 0 Orchestral Concert > 6.30 "Twenty Years After" (BBC Programme) 7. 0 Family Hour: Favourites of Yesterday and Today 8. 0. Melodies from British Films (BBC Programme) 8.30 "Serenade to the Stars’ 8. Christmas Carols by the Salvation -Army Songsters 8. 0 \Holiday for Song 9.30 Spotlight on Music 10. 0 Close down oon

U2XIN WHANGAREI 970 kc. 309m. 8. Oa.m. Breakfast session 9. 0 Familiar Music 9.15 Fileen Jovee (piano) --9.30 Music for Worship: BBC Singers. (40. O Pirouette: Ballet Music 40.45 Star of Song: Gwen Catley (soprano) 40.30 The Written Word 10.458 Musical Comedy 41. 0. Close down 6.30p.m. Review of Evening ed A 6.35 "Pinocchio" : 66.45 Christmas Party: A Children’s | Christmas party in England with Empire guests 7.0 The World’s Classics London Symphony Orchestra Christmas Concerto Corelli 8.15 Dickens’s Characters (BBC Programme) 8.45 Armchair Melodies 9. 4 Music in the Salon 710.30 Close down U2Kthl isto te. "229m. 8. Oa.m. This Christmas Morn 9.30 Music for Christmas 10. 0 ps ink "In My Experience," by Rt. Hon. Samuel 10.15 Christmas Party: Children’s Christmas Party in England, with Empire Guests 10.30 The Melodians, conducted by Bill Whitehead Christmas Carols (From the Studio) 11. 0 Close down 6.320 p.m. For Our Younger Listeners: "Cinderella," by Muriel Levy with music by Albert Coates a 0 "The Man of el ir | 9. 4 "Bethlehem,’’ choral drama adapted | from the Coventry Nativity Play, by Rutland Boughton (BBC Programme) 410. O At Close of Day. 10.30 Close down : | W ROTORUA \ VLA 800 kc. 375m. 7. 0, 8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS 9. 0 Christmas Cheer 10. O Dickens’s Christmas Stories 10.30 Gracie and. Sandy’s Party 41. 0 Christmas Hymns and Carols 411.18 Masters of the Keyboard 11.30 The Music of Alfredo Antonini 11.46 Orchestra, Piano and Song 12.30 p.m. Christmas Messages from the | Prine Minister and the Leader of the | Opposition 1.30 BBC World Affairs Talk 2.0 "The Little One," a Christmas story 2.30 The Torch of Freedom: Raoul Wallenberg 3. 0 A Carol Symphony Hely-Hutchinson (BBC Programme) 4.0 . Excerpts from the "Messiah" : 4.30 Something Old, Something New’ 4.45 "In the Steps of Omar Khayyam" (NZBS Production) 6.15 For the Music Lover 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.48 Sunday Serenade 7. 0 ANGLICAN SERVICE: St. Luke’s Anglican Church Preacher: Archdeacon Hodgson Organist: Mrs. Chas, Harris 8. 0 A Christmas Carol by Dickens 8.25 The Cave Sisters (vocal quartet) Christmas Carols Come All Ye Faithful Christtans I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Brightest and Best Joy to the World Silent Night, Holy Night 8.46 Sunday Evening Talk 8. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.12 Weekly News Summary in Maori 9.32 Christmas. Memories 9.45 Piano Music of Sehumann 10..0 Favourites through, the Year — 10.30 Close down ,

ay. WELLINGTON 570kc. 526m, 6. 0, 7.0,8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS 6.30 Early Morning Session 8.30 Breakfast Music 9.30 Christmas Carols sung by the Salvation Army Songsters (From the Studio) 40. 0 Band Music 40.30 Excerpts from the nativity portion Handel’s ‘‘Messiah"’ 41. 0 MORNING SERVICE: Brooklyn wae is tist Church Preacher: Rey. A. J, Jamieson Organist and Choirmaster: Claude Enright 12. 5p.m. Melodies You Know 12. 30 Christmas Messages from the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition 41.25 Today in N.Z. History: The First Christian Service 2. 0 A Carol Symphony: A symphony in four parts by Victor Hely-Hutchinson based on five traditional Christmas melodies and played by the London Radio Orchestra 2.30 Kathleen Long’ and Boyd Neel String Orchestra Concertino Leigh (2.45 THE ENGLISH SINGERS 8.17 "The Christmas Story’: A Tantasia | on the Christmas Story arranged for solo | Bethlehem Bells Dunhill The Christmas Nightingale arr. Coleman The Three Mummers Head Shepherds at the Cradle arr. Coleman The Holy Child Martin Past Three O'clock Shimmin (A Studio Recital) 3. 0 "Christmas Workers,’"’ the story of aoe of the people who are at work toay ae Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth " with Ronald Colman as "Scrooge" 4.30 "} Pulled Out a Plum" 5. 0 Children’s Song Service: Uncle Bob with the Brooklyn Methodist Junior. Choir (6.45 The Week in Radio 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 ANGLICAN SERVICE: St. Thomas’ Church Preacher: Rev. J. C. A. Cole Organist and Choirmaster: C, F. Pickering 8.5 EVENING PROGRAMME IDA CARLESS (plano) Preludes and Fugues in B Flat Minor, G Minor and E Bach (A Studio Recital) volees and chorus by Thomas Gray and presented by Studio Singers directed by Roy Hill (A Studio Presentation) (8.45 Sunday Evening Talk 9. 0 Dominion and N.Z. News 9.42 Weekly ‘News Summary in Maori -~©9.32 "The Three Kings," the story of the Nativity as told by Mordaunt Currie with musie by Armsfrong Gibbs (NZBS Production) 40. Concert Hall : . : 11. LONDON NEWS 2. Oa.m. BBC Christmas Programme with 8.48 (anproey.) a Message from H.M. the King Close down HVC WELLINGTON 650 kc. 461 m. 6. 6 7 7 8 . O p.m. Family Favourites Today in N.Z. History: The First " Christian Service "Great Expectations" 35 Master Music: Light Classics Ivor Novello and his Music 0 oe The Ladies Entertain Classical Music Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Rec.: Shall Palessbe the Last? hp Elocksyin Pastures Green Abidh ing c Symphony No.1 in B Flat Invocation To Music ‘Organ Concerto No. 2 in B Flat Handel 9.0 Czech Music: Overture: Carneval Dvorak Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree Weinberger How Strange and Dead (‘The Bartered Bride’’) Moldau From Bohemia’s Meadows and Forests metana 10. 0 Close down "A Christmas Carol," by Dickens, : : :

27D WELLINGTON 1130 ke. 265m. 7. Op.m. The Christmas Box 7.30 "Paul Temple and the Sullivan Affair" (BBC Programme) it] "Beauty That Endures" .30 "Dad and Dave" 43 Favourite Carols oO Five Wishes for Christmas: 17 Stars of British radio and screen in @ Christmas fantasy (BBC Programme) 9.30 "Crowns of England"’ 10. 0 Christmas Greetings District Weather Report Close down 2XKG GISBORNE 1010 ke, 297 m, 8. Oa.m. Christmas Crackers: Variety Programme 8.31 Presenting James Melton 8.46 Singing Strings 9. 0 Music for Christmas 9.30 The Songs Yotr Love: Lucy Monroe 9.45 $1 Like Christmas: A Musical Story 10.15 Chapter and Verse (BBC Production) 10.30 Holiday Music: John Charles Thomas and Detroit Symphony Orchestra 41. 0 Close down ney aT For the Children: "A Christmas Carol,’ with Basil Rathbone 7. 0 Passing Parade 8. 0 The Story of the First Christmas e 8.30 Songs of Cole Porter: Allan Jones with the Ray Sinatra Chorus 8.45 Instrumental ag ae 9. 4 Time for Musi 9.30 Sacred "by Dorothy Maynor 40. 0 A. J. Allan Stories 40.23 Epilogue 40.30 Close down QV ashe Sd m 7. 0, 8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS 9.30 Songs of Worship 9.45 Christmas for the Bandsman 410.16 "Christ Is Born Today": Christmas Music by English. and Welsh CDoirs 10.45 "Looking at Britain: Snowdonia," by Bruce Campbell 44. 0 Music for Everyman 42. 0 Time for Music: Midland Light Ore chestra 42.30 p.m, Christmas Messages from the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition , Sa Dinner Music 2. 0 British Concert Hall: BBC Northern Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves Ballet Suite: Checkmate Bliss 3. 0 Play: "Kings in Judea," from the sequence "The Man Born to be King," by Dorothy L. Sayers (BBC Programme) 4.0 Sunday Matinee 4.30 "N.Z., Pacific Playground" 5. 0 Children’s Session 6.30 Music Time; Queen’s Hall Light Grchestra 6. 0 "I Sing of a Maiden": Familiar and unusual Christmas songs sung by Frederick Fuller (baritone) 8.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 RBC Newsreel 7. 0 SALVATION ARMY SERVICE: The Citadel Speaker: Major Jean Trainer |, Bandmaster: Cecil Fitzwater Song Leader: Wesley McMillan 8.5 London Symphony Orchestra’ coti ducted by Josef Krips Overture: Rosamunde Schubert 8.14 New English Singers: Unaccompanied singing by mixed sextet (BBC Programme) 845 Sunday Evening Talk s. 0 Overseas News 9.12 Weekly News Summary in Maorl 9.30 Christmas Play: "The Lovely Lady of Bethlehem,.’"’ by Marjery kyon (NZBS Production) 10.30 Close down 2Qd.(P 1370 ke. 219m. 7. Op.m. Church Service from sXa 8. 5 Concert 8.30 "Crowns of England" 9. 5 Gilbert and Sullivan (BBC Programme; 9.53 Epnerss BBC Production) 10. 0 Close down :

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Sunday. December 25

WANGANUI 2 1200 ke. 250m. 8. 0 a.m. Breakfast Session 9.30 Music for Worship: BBC Singers and leading Soloists in Christmas music (BBC Programme) 10. O The Story of the Nutcracker Suite’ 10.30 Ronald ‘Colman and Supporting Cast: "A Christmas Carol’ 41.0 Close down : 6.30 p.m. For Our Younger Listeners: "The Small One," a story for Christmas presented by Bing Crosby with a supporting cast 6.45 Music for Strings 7. 0 Gems-from the Operas 7.30 At’ Short Notice 7.45 Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth — | 8. 0 "Kings in Judea," a play from the sequence, ‘"‘The Man Born To Be King," by Dorothy Sayers (BBC -Programme) 9. 4 Holiday Music: Christmas music by American soloists, orchestra and choir 9.35 "This Is N.Z." (BBC. Programme) 10.25 Ropers BBC Programme) 10.30 Clone down dXINI 1340 ke. 224 m. 7. O p.m. "Il Sing of a Maiden": Familiar and unusual Christmas Songs sung by Frederick Harvey (baritone) 7.30 Ring Up the Curtain: Excerpts from "Love the Magician’ and "The Three Cornered Hat" with Carmen Del Rio (soprano) and the BBC Theatre Orchestra conducted by Stanford Robinson 8.14 Theme and Variations Cyril Smith (piano) with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Variations on a Nursery Tune Dohnanyi Liverpool! Philharmonic Orchestra DSTA and Variations (Suite No. 3 in 1 Tchaikovski 9. 4 Popular Classics Dol Dauber and his Salon Orchestra Overture; The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief Strauss Campoli (violin) La Ronde Des Lutins Bazzini Ada Alsop (soprano) with Boyd Neel String Orchestra The Lass With the Delicate Air Arne Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Dance of the Comedians y, 8.20 Hcliday for Song 10. 0 Close down SY CHRISTCHURCH 690 kc. 434m. 6. 0, 7.0, 8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS Smetana 6.15 Christmas Carols 7 Children’s Corner 9. 4 "Christ is Born Today": Christmas Music sung by English and Welsh Choirs 9.30 Orchestral Music 10.12 Favourite Short Classics 10.49 Music by Grieg 41. 0 METHODIST SERVICE Durham Street Church Preacher: Rev. Dr. R, Dudley, M.A, Organist and Choirmaster: Melville Lawry 12.15 p.m. Programme Preview 12.30 Christmas Messages from the Prime MInLater and the Leader of the Opposihog Pteys: 4K Child ts Born," by VinStephen Benet (Voice of Aperics Programme) 2.30 Gigli sings 3. 0 |The Avon Singers and Clarence B. (organist) The Christmas Chorales of J. S. Bach (From the €ivic Theatre) 3.25 Halle Orchestra L’Arlesienne Suite, No, 4 3. Christmas Poetry: Reading by J. * Hervey, a N.Z, 4.0 ayit Wagner 4.26 Air in j {"*Rosamunde"’ Music) Schubert 4,42 Ranal-Ruru Girls’ School Choir, condneted by Victor C. Peters A Children’s Cantata: "Pied Piper of Hamelin" Rathbone 6. 9 Chiltren’s Service 6. 0 London Studico Melodies: Melaehrino Orchestra with assisting vocallsts Mga Gwenne and Jan Muzurus: 6.20 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BRC Newsree} 7.9 ROMAN CATRKOLIC SERVICE of the Most Blessed Sacrament reacher: A Redemptorlst Futher Nazareth House Girls’ Choir ) _Organist: Eric Cornwall *

8.5 EVENING PROGRAMME Arthur Fiedler’s Sinfonietta Christmas Symphony Schiassi 8.12 DOUGLAS ZANDERS (pianist) Melodie Polonaise Liszt At Evening Schumann Impromptu in G Flat, Op. 51 Chopin Forest Murmurs Liszt (From the Studio) 8.28 MAY ALLAN (soprano) The Holy Babe Dunhill The Three Mummers Head The Holy Boy lreland O Leave Your Sheep Hazelhurst (From the Studio) 8.40 Tibor Varga (violin) ONO oO The Fountain of Arethusa, Op. 3, No. : Szymanowski 8.45 Sunday Evening Talk F 9. 0 Overseas News 9.22 Heifetz (violin) and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Barbiroll Gipsy Airs, Op. 20, No. 1 Sarasate 8.30 Christmas Carols: A recording of music sung by the Christchurch Cathedral Choir in this vear’s Carol Service 10. O Dinu Lipatti (pianist) Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58 Chopin 10.25 Music in Miniature The Kantroviteh Trio, Ada Alsop (soFrage? and Frederick Thurston (clarinet : 11. 0 LONDON NEWS 11.4% Epilogue 11.22 Close down 3) Y CS 960 ke. 312m. O p.m. Light Music 0 "Mr. Pickwick’s Christmas," narrated by Charles Laughton .30 Sunday Serenade eS Piano Music .30 Grand Hotel . 0 "Emma" (BBC Programme) 8.30 Light Symphony Orchestra condusted by Haydn Wood Concert Waltz ‘"Joyousness" Wood Shepherd’s Song ueen Mary’s Song omage March Elgar-Wood 8.44 David Lloyd Sings some Welsh National Songs 9. 2 Short Pieces by Tchaikovsk! National Symphony Orchestra of England conducted by Anatole Fistoulari Marche Slav,-Op, 31 9.10 Eugenia Zareska (mezzo-soprano), with the London Philharmonic Orchestra Air des Adieux (‘Joan of Are’’) 9.1©. Josef Hassid (violin) Melodie, Op. 42, No. 3 9.21 Riehard Tauber (tenor) 9.26 BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult "Waltz (Serenade in C) 9.29 Nelson Eddy (baritone) 9.35 Sergei Rachmaninoff (piano) In a Three Horse Sleigh, Op. 37, No. 11 9.39 Joan Hammond (soprano) with . the Liverpool Philtharmonie Orchestra Tatiana’s Letter Scene ("Eugen One9.51 The Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, conducted by Eduard Van Beinum é Andante Cantabile (String Quartet in DD dt). 10.0 Close down ; KG | aaa ane m. 8. 0 am. Breakfast Session 9..0 Bandstand: The St. Hilda’s Band with the Dewsbury Musie Society present Choruses from ‘Messiah’ (BBC Programme) 9.39 Morning Star: Viadimir Horowitz 8.45 "Tt Sing of a Maiden’; Familiar and unusual Christmas songs sung by Frederick Harvey (baritone 10.15 ‘Jane Austen’’; new judgment ‘by Elizabeth Bowen (BBC Programme) 10.44 [London Symphony Orchestra, con- ducted by Bruno Walter hristmas Concerto Corelli 44. 0 Close down 6.30 p.m, For Our Younger Listeners: "The Story’ of the Nativity," featuring Waher Hampden "King Wenceslas." a Christmas Play 7. & Christmas Message to the Citizens of Timaru by His Worship the -Mayor, Mr. A. &. S, itanan, who then introduces "Christmas Cards" from Digger Reports . and H-S.A. Review — .- 7-30 Fainliy Favourites

8. 0 "This Sceptred Isie’’ 8.29 CONNIE LEE (contralto) He Shall Feed His Flock (‘‘Messiah’’) He Was Despised (‘‘Messiah’’) Handel The Legend Tohaikowski Bless Thou the Lord Craxton (From the Studio) 8.47 For the Pianist 9. 4 "Bethlehem"; A Choral Drama by Rutland Boughton, adapted from the Coventry Nativity Play BBG Production) 10. 1. At Close of Day 10.30 Close down .., 5) Y LA 920 kc. 326m. 7. 0, 8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS Early Morning session 9.30 Accent on Melody 10. 0 Calling All Hospitals 11.30 Music for Worship: BBC Singers with Soloists 12.30 p.m. Christmas Messages from the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition 12.33 On Wings Of Song 1.0 Christmas Music: Negro Spirituals by the Legend Singers 2. 0 Piay: "Kings in Judea": From the sequence "The Man Born to be King,’ by Dorothy L. Sayers 3. 0 The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster 3.15 Celebrity Instrumentalists 3.30 Christmas Music and Customs 4. 0 "Victoria, Queen of England’ 4.30 Classical Requests : 5. 0 Children’s Song Service: Rey. K, G, Aubrey 5.45 Evening Star: Jose Iturbt (plano) 6. 0 For the Children: "David and the Little Donkey" 6.30 LONDON NEWS : 7. 0 CHURCH OF CHRIST SERVICE: Brunner St. Church Preaeher; F. B. Marshall Organist: W. Best 8. & Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Overture: lolanthe 8.14 Play: "Pheasants For Four," a fantasy by Victor Andrews (NZBS Production) 45 Sunday Evening Talk . 0 Overseas News 0 West Coast Sports Results .30 "The Blue Danube" 0.15 Christmas Music: Carols and Christmas Songs sung by the Columbus. Boys’ Choir 10.30 Close down Al Y /\ 780kc. 384m, 6. 0,7.0,8.0a.m, LONDON NEWS = Pe Your Favourite Carols Carnegie Hall } to! 15 Friends in Harmony: Returned Services Male Choir Quartet in Hymns chosen for Christmas Day (From the Studio) 10.30 Brass Bandstand : 11. 0 PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE: Knox Church : x resneett Very Rev. D, C. Herron, M.A., M.C Organist and Choirmaster: Roy Spackman : 12. O Accent on Melody 12.15 p.m. Concert Celebrities 12.30 Christmas Messages from the Prime iaiggeag and the Leader of the Opposition » She Dinner Music ; 2e | Play: "The Skeleton Key," by Audrey Temple-Smith (BBG Production) 2.30 Music for Christmas Day Christmas Concerto Corelli A Ceremony of Carols Britten 3.30 Recitals: Irene Scharrer (piano) and Frank Titterton (tenor) 3.50 Play: "The Three by Mordaunt Currie, The Story of the Nativity 5. 0 Children’s Song Service 5.45 eae from Theatreland 6.15 Music in ,Miniature 6.30 SERVICE: Trinity Church Preacher: Rev. L. Greenslade Organist: Miss E. Hartley 8. 6 EVENING PROGRAMME "A Carol Symp yore: a symphony in four parts by Victor Hely-Hutchinson, based on five traditional Christmas melodies,, played by the London Radio Orchestra (BBC Programme) 8.45 Sunday Evening Talk 9.0 Overseas News — re

9.30 The Coventry pour directed by George Wilkinson, B.A Christmas Cantata Bush (From the Studio) 10. 0 Westminster Orchestra conducted by Denis Wright Passacaglia on a@ Well-known Theme acob Comedy Overture Harty 10.30 Choral Singing; Two (Falstaff) Elgar March: Sea Songs Williams 11. 0 LONDON NEWS | 11.30 Close down IVS sbolie "335m 5. Op.m. Light Music 6. O The Small One | 6.12 The Canterbury Cholr of America 6.30 LONDON NEWS 6.45 BBC Newsreel 7. 0 Favourite Artists 8. 0 "The Christmas Child," a modern nativity play by D. G. Bridson (BBC Programme) 8.45 The Seagie Singers A Christmas Cantata * 9. 1 "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens 10. 0 Close down AKAD) 1430 ke. 210m. 9. Oam. Tunes for the Breakfast Table 9.30 The Radio Church of Helping Hand 10. O Morning Melodies 10.16 ‘Little Chapel of Good Cheer 10.46 Cricket Review 41. 0 Classical Hour Prelude, Act 3 "Lohengrin" Wagner 11. 4 Beniamino Gigli (tenor) Love Doth Forbid Fedora 11. 7 Alfred Cortot (piano) Scherzo No. 2 "Chopin 11.16 Duet: Lucia di Lammermoor 11.19 Dance of the Hours Ponchielli 11.29 Osear Natzka ébass) To the Forest Tchaikovskl 11.32 Simon Barere (piano) Etude de Concert Liszt 11.36 Since the Day (‘Louise’) 11.40 Sextette from ‘Lucia di Lammermoor" 11.45 Intermezzo: "Cavalleria Rusticana" 11.49 Igor Gorin (bass) The Praver 11.52 Thy Home in Provence 11.56 Intermezzo: "I Pagliacci" 12. 0 Close down a Y LA 720 kc. 416m. 7. 0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS 8.45 Hymns for All 9, 4 "Bethlehem," a choral drama by Rutland, Boughton (BBC Pragramme) 10. 0 "The Small One," Bing Crosby and Supporting Cast, with Musical Direction by. Victor Young 10.15 Music for Christmas: Royal Choral Society, Ada Alsop (soprano) and Richard Crooks. (tenor) 11. 0 From Stage and Screen 12. 0 Grand Massed Brass Bands, condueted by Denis Wright 12.16 p.m. ‘Music of Alfredo Antonini" (A Volee of America Programme) 12.30 Christmas messages from the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition 1. 0 The Harry Horliek Programme 1.30 BBC World Affairs Talk 1.45 1949’s Musical Film Fare 3. 0 Major Work: hae opel ab Orchestra Nutcracker Suite, Op. 7 ohalkevent 3.22 Famous Artist: Oscar Natzka (bass) 3.35 "Christ is Born Today": Christmas music by English and Welsh Choirs (BBC Programme) 4. 0 "A Christmas Carol,’ with Ronald Colman as Scrooge ; 4.30 Holiday for Song 5. 0 Chi'dren’s Song Service 6. 0 The. Memory Lingers On 7. 0 PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE: North Church : Preacher: Rev. A. D, Robertson 8.6 Great Moments in Opera 8.15 "Emma" 8.45 Sunday gy Talk | 9. 0 Overseas New : she PE pti cty (final broadcast for 9.30. " odays the Day: "Christmastide" 9.56 "Family Reunion" 10.28 "Epilogue" ' (BBC Programme) 10.30 Close down a

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A ye P 6. 0 am. Greet This Happy Christmas | Morn | 7. 0 Santa Claus Reports 7.5 Christmas Morning Carols 7.40 Ronald Colman presents Dickens's Christmas Carol 8. O District Weather Forecast Over to Children’s Hospital Wards (Thea and Gil) 9.15 Friendly Road Children’s Choir 10. 0 Mr. Pickwick’s Christmas: Charles | Laughton 10.30 A Visit to Bethlehem, with Elsie K. Morton 11. 0 Friendly Road Service of Song 12. 0 Hospital Request Session 12.62 p.m. District Weather Forecast 2.0 Carols and Folk Songs of Yugoslavia 2.30 Christmas with the ZB Women’s Hour Personalities 3.0 £Afternoon Matinee at a Vaudeville Theatre 3.30 Music of Victor Herbert 4. 0 Yachtsmen’s Weather Forecast Christmas Afternoon Melodies 5. 0 Diggers’ Session (Rod Talbot) EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Christmas Songs and Story 6.30 Uncle Tom and the Sankey Singers » aR Presentation of Christmas Pantomime, Cinderella 8. 0 Five Wishes For Christmas 8.45 National Talk s. 0 All N.Z. Variety Show 410. 0 Ardmore Teachers’ Training Collége Maori Choir 10.16 Reminiscences of the Concert Stage 10.46 Ezio Pinza in Popular Italian Songs : 11. © Christmastide Reflections 12. 0 Close down 220 we me 6. Oa.m,.. Breakfast Session 7.32 Carol Time 8.0 A Religion for Christmas Morning (Rev. Harry Squires) 8.15 Junior Request Session (Favourites of 1949) , 9. 0 Uncle Tom's Children’s Choir 9.20 The World of Sport (the year in. retrospect) 9.35 Around the Empire 10. 0 The Littlest Angel 10.20 Special Xmas Service Session 10.45 2ZB on Parade, compered by Aunt Daisy 11.30 Christmas Greeting Carols in Maori 11.45 Is There a Santa Claus? 12. 0 Listeners’ Request session 2. Op.m. Christmas Story 2.30 Xmas with the ZB Women’s Hour Personalities 3. 0 Carols and Folk Songs of Yugosiavia 4.0 Christmas Dinner at Baker Street, with Host Sherlock Holmes 5. 0 Love’s Old Sweet Song 5.30 Christmas Chestnuts . EVENING PROGRAMME | 6. 0 Christmas Songs and Story 7. 0 Christmas, 1849 7.30 Five Wishes for Chrigtmas, featur=ing British Film Stars 8.0 Special Christmas Day Supplement 8.45 Sunday Evening Talk . 9.0 All N.Z, Variety Show : 10.15 The Old and the New 10.30 Stealing Through the Classics : 11.30 Popular Tunes of Today ) 12. 0 Close down

1OLD wei to. : 6. 0 a.m. Canterbury Children’s Requests | /-~8.15 From one Mother to a lot of other | Mothers (Elizabeth Anne) 8.30 Carols: Durham Street Methodist Choir Christmas Session 9.0 Uncle Tom’s Children’s Choir | 9.30 Massed Christchurch Bands: A special presentation compered by Lloyd Thorne 10. O First Thing This Morning: Recorded impressions of the Children’s _. Reaction to their Stockings 10.30 Flowers for the Old Foik: Hospital Relay 10.45 Dorothy Maynor _ sings Negro | Spirituals 11. 0 Friendly Road Service of Song 11.15 Music 11.46 The Toff Rounds up the Sporting Entertainers 12. 0 For Those in Hospital: Merry Christmas Requests 2. Op.m. Airini Grennell Greets the Maori | People 2.80 Christmas with the ZB Women’s Hour Personalities 0 We Can’t Hold Christmas Success. | Without Them. (People who work | to make Christmas possible) 3.30 The Earth Today Rejoices: Christ- | mas Songs and Rites all over the World presented by Myra Thomson 3.456 Is There a Santa Claus? 4.0 Studio Presentation: A Christmas | : fantasy in Words and Music, by Thomas | P E. West and Frona King | . Oo Christmas Children’s Session Green) 5.30 Song Favourites of Days Gone by: Russ Morgan and his Orchestra EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Christmas Songs and Story 7. 0 Historical Highlights of Christmas: A Local Programme telling of People who were born on Christmas Day or of events which happened on that date 7.30 My Most Satisfying Christmas Experience: (Collated by Al Sleeman) -. 8. 0 The J. Arthur Rank Christmas Programme by British Film Stars 8.30 Reserved 9. 0 All N.Z. Variety Show 9.45 A Literary Christmas (C. A. 1 1 1 Bagent) 0. 0 The Music of Stephen Foster: Sammy Kaye and his Orchestra 0.45 Where Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Teddy Grundy) 0.80 Carols and Folk Songs of Yugo- : : : slavia 11. 0 Christmas Nocturne | It’s. Dream Time (Jack Fina at the : Piano) 12. 0 Close down 4Z,B 1040 k = gene m. 6. 0 a.m. Merry Christmas To You 7.0 Get Up, Get Up, it’s Christmas Morn 7.30 Christmas Carols 8. 0 In a Christmas Mood 9. 0 Christmas in Other Lands 9.30 Christmas in Dunedin with the Junior Choristers 9.45 Latin American Popular Music (U.S.A. Programme) 10. 0 The Salvation Army Band \ 10.30 Old Folks’ Christmas Party 11. 0 Carols by Candlelight: Nurses of the Public Hospital 11.30 Carols and Folk Songs of Yugoslavia 12. 0 Calling the Hospitals (Christmas Requests) 2. 0 p.m. Radio Matinee 2.30 Christmas with the ZB Women’s Hour Personalities 3. 0 Emile Zola 3.30 These are New Discs 4.30 Christmastime in the Children’s ar 5. 0 Children’s Christmas Album 5.15 First Piano Quartet (U.S.A. Programme) 5.30 Digger’s Session (Service Christmases of other years) EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Christmas in Songs and Story 7.15 is There a Santa Ciaus?

7.38 Local Artists 8.0 #£Five Wishes For Christmas 8.30 Hold in Reserve 8.46 Sunday Night Talk 9. 0 All N.Z. Variety Show 10. 0 Percy Faith and his Music (U.S.A. Programme) 10.15 Concert Artists 414. 0 Melody in Rhythm 11.45 With These, We Say Goodnight 12. 0 Close down 27, PALMERSTON Nth. 940 ke, 319 ™, 7. 0 a.m. Out of the Stocking 8.30 All Saints’ Boys’ Choir 9.2 Salt Lake City Tabernacle Choir 9.30 Christmas Relay from the Public Hospital 10. 0 Carols and Folksongs of Yugoslavia 10.15 First Piano Quartettes 10.30 Is There a Santa Claus? 11. 0 The Farmer Is Not Forgotten 11.30 Melodies of the Masters 12. 0 Hospital Request Session 12.30 p.m. Dominion Weather Forecast 2.0 Christmas with the Old Folk 2.30 Reserved 3.0 St. Joseph's Maori Girls’ College Choir 3.15 Rangiatea, a talk by Eric Ramsden 4. 0 Music of Donald Vorhees 4.15 Light Vocal Ensembles

American Folk Music ° 4.30 5. 0 Round the Campfire 5.30 Evening Variety EVENING PROGRAMME Christmas in Songs and Story 0 0 The Music of Percy Faith & The Little One, with Bing Crosby 0 A Song for You . 0 Five Wishes for Christmas 0 All N.Z. Variety Show 0 Close down en ene + me oe oe "Christmas in Songs and Story" from the Commercial Stations at 6 o’clock tonight will feature greetings and songs from Danish State Broadcasting Service, carols by a Polish Children’s Choir, and'a radio dramatisation of the story of Artaban, The Kourth Wise Man, He bo * At 8 o’clock tonight the Commercial Stations will broadcast ‘"‘Five Wishes for Christmas," a seasonal story with John Mills, Googie Withers, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne and many other stars from the J. Arthur Rank film studios. * = * "The Knaves,"" The Duplicats, Nancy Harrie, John MacKenzie and "Maurice Tansley are the N.Z, entertainers who contribute to the "All N.Z. Vatiety Show’ which the Commercial Stations will present to listeners at 9 o’clock tonight.