CORONATION TIME-TABLE

New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 721, 8 May 1953, Page 7

CORONATION TIME-TABLE

1ZBS, arrangements for rebroadcasting the Coronation Service, the State Procession through London, and the Queen’s Coronation Day message, were announced last week in. Wellington, From ‘9.15 p.m. on Coronation Day, Tuesday, June 2, until 4.30 the next morning, all the YA, YZ, ZB, ZA and X stations will rebroadcast the ceremonies direct from the BBC. The Queen and the Duke of Edinpurgh leave Buckingham Palace at 9.25 am. G.M.T. (9.25 p.m. in New Zealand) and arrive at Westminster Abbey at 10.0. At 10.15 the Coronation Service will begin and continue until 12.45, This will be followed by a broadcast of music from the Abbey and commentaries on the departures. At 1.50 the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh return to Buckingham Palace through the streets of London, arriving at the Palace at 3.30. Until 4.15 there will be descriptions of the scene outside the Palace and along the processional route. At 4,15 the Queen will appear on the balcony. Station 2YA only will continue with a musical programme, following the Queen’s appearance on the _ balcony, until 6.0 am. (June 3). At 7.0.a.m. the YA and YZ stations will rebroadcast the BBC programme Long Live the Queen! narrated by Robert Donat. At 8.0 a.m. the Queen’s Coronation Day message will be rebroadcast by the YA, YZ, ZB, ZA and X stations, and this will be re-. peated by the YAs and YZs following the weather forecast at 12.30 p.m. At 7.0 p.m. a shortened version of the Coronation Service and Procession will be broadcast by the YA, YZ and X stations, followed by a further repeat of the Queen’s message. At 8.15 p.m. the YA and YZ stations will broadcast the BBC programme Coronation Day Across the World,