Other Special Programmes

New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 667, 18 April 1952, Page 7

Other Special Programmes

NEW NZBS programme which will have its first broadcast on Anzac Day-from 2YA at 8.15 p.m.-is Theirs is the Glory. Written by O. A. Gillespie, this is a tribute to the men of Anzac. Linked by the voices of two

narrators and two soldiers, the programme tells the story of Gallipoli in the words of men who were there and offers a many-sided commentary on the campaign. Compton Mackenzie and John Masefield describe the young men who fought there. Pictures of the attack on Krithia are given by Sir Ian Hamilton (as he saw it from the deck of a ship off shore), and Major-General Sir Norman Weir, then a young lieutenant (as he saw it from the thick of the fight). Masefield comes back to describe the scene after the battle; and there

is a record of the impression Gallipoli made on one young New Zealand gunner, The blunt words of John North, "It was a squalid political story," and Liddell Hart, "A romantic halo has been created to obscure a lamentable story of lost opportunity," contrast with those of another writer, "The ultimately surviving impressions are those not of disgrace and horror, but of splendid audacity and gallant enterprise." They contrast, too, with the- programme’s summing up of just what the Gallipoli campaign meant-in the balance sheet of the 1914-18 war. The Day Set Apart: ale ents brance of Anzac Day, an NZBS production on the significance of this "dap set apart" by the Parliament of New Zealand, will be heard on Anzac Eve from 1YZ at 7.55 p.m. and 3YZ at 8.0 p-m. Many stations, both National and Commercial, will broadcast — other special programmes on Anzac Day. These include A Name Was Born, from 3ZB at 7.45 p.m. a programme of music by the Band of the First OtagoSouthland Regiment from 4YZ at 7.30 p.m., and relays of parts of Anzac Day evening concerts from 1ZB and 2ZA. Public» commemorative services will be relayed at Auckland from 1YA and 1ZB, at Wellington from 2YA and 2YC, at Christchurch from 3YA° and 3ZB, and at Dunedin from 4YA. Services at Whangarei, Hamilton, Gisborne, Rotorua, Napier, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Timaru and Invercargill will be relayed by the local stations. Details of special programmes and ‘services will be found in the programme pages of this issue.