Holiday Broadcasts for Boys and Girls

New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 14

Holiday Broadcasts for Boys and Girls

"| ESSONS? No, of course, that isn’t the idea at all." Arnold Roseveare, of NZBS. Broadcasts to Schools, adopted the air of a school teacher packing his bags for the summer holidays when The Listener asked him about the special children’s programmes for this month’s term holidays. Mr. Roseveare, who has selected and arranged the holiday programmes since they were first used experimentally from 2YA in 1950, made it quite clear that the broadcasts are meant to entertain, not to instruct. They will be heard from the four YA stations, with selected programmes from the YZ stations, at about 9.4 a.m. daily from Monday to Friday in the fortnight starting Monday, May 12. All the same, there’s more than, entertainment in the big item for boys-an interview in which an All Black, Ron Jarden, gives Pat Earnshaw, of 2YA, his views on Rugby. Ron Jarden is soon to become a teacher, and Mr. Roseveare assured us that he speaks a language all schoolboys will understand, though what he has to say should help school footbal! coaches also. Gear, training, rules, positional play, tackling and team work are among the aspects of the game Ron Jarden will discuss. This interview will be heard from 1YA and 3YA on Wed: nesday, May 14, and from 2YA and 4YA on Wednesday, May 21. Lesley Coleman’s programme Fun With Music, to be heard on Fridayfrom 2YA and 4YA the first week, and 1YA and 3YA the second week-w1l this time include some musical quizzes. Passages from modern popular music

will be played and listeners will be asked to guess the classical works on which they are based. Nursery Rhymes for children aged five to eight years, conducted by Loma Jones, of Kindergarten of the Air, will be a new feature. This will be heard from 1YA and 3YA on the first Tues_day of the holidays, and from the other YA stations on the second Tuesday. Another programme which should be popular, especially with boys, will be Bryan O’Brien’s Strange Journey, based on Mr.

O’Brien’s experiences in the Antarctic with the 1934 Byrd Expedition. This will be heard from 1YA and 3YA the first Friday, and 2YA and 4YA the ‘second Friday. | The holiday programmes will include a number of features that School Broadcasts found were popular with children last: year. All stations will discuss their programme for the week each Monday morning, and the same day will broadcast Hints for the Holidays-tips on how to spend spare time, new ideas about indoor hobbies and the like. Each station will also broadcast a story every day. Other programmes to be heard in the first week include a book review on Wednesday and a quiz on Thursday from 1YA and 3YA, a community sing (led by the studio class) on Tuesday, and a quiz on Wednesday from 2YA and 4YA, and two Crosbie Morrison nature talks on Thursday-‘‘Animals in Winter" from 2YA, and "The Story of the* Moon" from 4YA. In the second week 2YA and 4YA will have a book review on Wednesday and a quiz on Thursday, 1YA and 3YA will have a community sing on Tuesday and a quiz on Wednesday, and the nature-talks on Thursday will be "Animals in Winter" from 1YA and "The Story of the Moon" from 3YA, ; Though the programmes have been arranged, and will be provided by Schools Broadcasts, stations will not necessarily present them in the same way. This will be left to an officer at each station, who will be in charge of the broadcasts throughout the fortnight.