Special Programmes for Sundays

New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 20

Special Programmes for Sundays

HE Palace of Westminster is still a Royal Palace, though most people think of it in terms of the famous buildings it contains-the House of Lords, the House of Commons and Westminster. Hall. In The Palace of Westminster, a BBC. programme to be heard shortly from National and Commercial stations, Roger Cary traces the history of the palace to its origin in the days of Edward the Confessor. The story is brought up to date with contributions by Lord Ruffside who, as Mr. Speaker CliftonBrown, presided over the Commons’ wartime sittings; by Sir Ralph Verney, secretary to the present Speaker; and by Col. Walter Elliott, M.P., who recalls the night in 1941 when bontbs destroyed the Chamber of the House of Commons. The Palace of Westminster is one of a miscellany of BBC programmes which will be heard from the four ZB stations end 2ZA at 3.30 p.m. on Sundays, beginning August 30. Other titles are Youth Hostels, BBC Bandstand, The British Overseas, Smoking, Portrait Of (continued ‘on next page)

An Air Stewardess and The British Hotel. The Westminster and Youth Hostel programmes are also going the rounds of the National stations. The former will be heard from 2YC and 4YC at 8.0 p.m. on August 25, and the latter from 2YA on August 27, at 9.30 p.m. Also scheduled for ZB Sunday afternoon broadcast is We Reap Their Harvest, a series of dramatised programmes about famous New Zealanders. Compiled by Basil Clarke and produced by the NZBS, the programmes deal with Sir John McKenzie, the pugnacious Scot who was Minister of Lands under Ballance and Seddon; George Hogben, the civil servant who was New Zealand’s greatest @ducational reformer; William Pember Reeves, a widely cultured man who "fathered" the I. C. and A. Act; John Grigg, founder of the renowned Longbeach Estate at which the Royal couple will stay during their New Zealand tour; Sir Henry igram, virtual founder of the R.N.Z.A.F. and Sir Truby King, with whose Plunket Society most readers will be familiar. The series was well-received by critics when broadcast from National stations a year ago. We Reap Their Harvest starts from the four ZB stations on August 30 and from 2ZA on September 6. It will be heard from 1ZB, 2ZB and 2ZA at 2.0 p.m., from 3ZB at 10.30 a.m., and from 4ZB at 2.30 p.m.