Sunday, December 20

New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 53

Sunday, December 20

Boca a= 8.45a.m. News from Home (BBC) 10. 0 Congress Hall Salvation Army Band conducted by Bandmaster Thomas itive (Studio) 10.30 Concert Artists 11. 0 BAPTIST SERVICE: Mt. Albert Church Preacher: Rev. G. C. Reay Organist: W. Edgar 6p.m. British Orchestras 1 40 Concert Celebrities a © Nigel Neilson, with Henry Rudolph at the piano Old Songs for New (NZBS) 2.20 Short Story: The Bonny Fish, by J. R. Robertson (NZBS 2.35 FELICIA MELANY (soprano) Four Dutch Songs é A Lullaby The Lacemaker The Flowers of the Heather My Love is My Summer (Studio) 3.0 National Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication in St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh (BBC) (For details see 2YA) 4.15 The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra *Cello Concerto in B Flat Boccherini Symphony No, 45 in F Sharp Minor (Farewell) Haydn 5. 0 Children’s Song. Service 5.45 Late Afternoon Concert 7.0 ROMAN CATHOLIC SERVICE St. Patrick’s Cathedral Preacher: His Lordship Bishop Liston Organist: Lenora Owsley Choirmaster: D.- Anderson 8.6 The Danish State Radio Orchestra Overture: Maskarade Little Suite for Strings Nielsen 8.25 MARGHERITA ZELANDA (soprano) (Studio) 9.12 Weekly News Summary in Maori 940 Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) 10. 0 Sunday Evening Concert 10.60 Epilogue (BBC) 11.20 Close down TV(reeo AUCKLAND | 6.30 p.m. Andres Segovia ,(guitar) Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Spanish Songs 7. 0 VALDA JOHNSTONE (Australian pianist) Sonata in D Minor Sonata in € Scarlatti Prelude, Chorale and Fugue Franek (Studio Recital from Wellington) 7.20 The Lovely Lady of Bethlehem: A Nativity Play by Marjorie Lyon (NZBS) 8. 0 THE NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by Warwick Braithwaite (NZBS) (Tor details see 2YC) 8.36 Hephzibah (plano) and Yehpdi Menuhin (violin) Sonata in A Franck 9. 8 Mary Murphy (soprano), with the ian Bosworth String Quartet The Appeal Melancholy Philomel! Goossens Calm, Beside the) Silent Quay Jongen (Studio) The Royd Neel String ‘Oreheatia Adagio, Op. 3 Lekeu §.23 London Studio Concerts Tragic Overture Three Movements from Serenade in D, Op. 11 Brahms (BRC) 10. 2 Ballads, Ballaces and Roundelays: A programme of readings arranged by: Hfelen Shaw (NZRS) 10.18 Theodor. Chailiapin (bass), with Orchestra. ¢onducted by the Composer Songs fromthe flim Don Quichote an 10.30. Close down 1YD j>sMUCKLAND. | oe 7" ae 10. Oam. Sacred Selections 410.30 Variety Artists 41. 0 Sunday Morning Concert 12. 0 Lunch Music 1. Op.m. Showtime 1.30 Sunday Siesta 2. 0 Melody Fare ; 3.30 Musie in the Tanner’ Manner 4.15 From Screen to Radio ; 4.30 Radio Rotunda 5. 0 Songs by Lawrence Tibbett 5.15 Hits of the Forties 6. 0 The Sweetwood Serenaders : 6.15 The Cireus Comes to Town 6.30 Light and Bright . 0 Family Hour by Gorner Show Tunes by George Gershwin, ; Stanley Black Presents

Tuneful and Topical Come Into the Parlour (BBC) In Quiet Mood O District Weather Forecast Close down IXN oQVHANGAREL 309 Som 8. Oam. HKreakfast Session 9. 4 Mario Lanza: Songs for Christmas 9.15 Victor Silvester’s Silver Strings 9.30 Band Music 10. 0 Test Pilot: High Tay en Flying, a talk by J. B. Starky .(NZBS) : 10.30 The liford Girls’ Choir | 40.456 Jobn Charles Thomas and the king’s Men (41. 0 Close down 6.30 p.m. For Our Younger Listeners: Hereward the Wake 6.45 Junior Naturalists 7. 0 Concert Half Hour 7.30 Tenor and Baritone 8. 0 Take It From Here (BBC) (a repetition of Thursday’s programme from 1XN) 8.29 Barchester Towers, the first episode of the book by Anthony Trollope, adapted by If. Oldfield Rox ~ (BBC) 9. 4 MYRA HADCROFT (piano) Sonata in B Flat, K.333 Mozart (Studio) 9.20 Miliza kKorjus (soprano) 9.40 To Ears that Hear: Devotions by Rey. T. H. Burton, of the Presbyterian Chureh (Studio) 10. O Music from Ballet 10.15 At Close of Day 10.30 Close down IX Y3 ¢LAMILTON, m. 8. Oa.m. Rreakfast Session 9.15 Popular Overtures a London Studio Melodies: Sidney Yorch’s Orchestra with Ronald Chesney CSET BORIER | (BBC) (40. 0 Carols of All Nations 10.30 Kathieen Ferrier sings Folk Songs (10.456 Concert Celebrities 11. 0 The Oscar Natzka Show 41415 Rand Music 11.30 ‘Three-Fours: Waltzing down the years with Terty Ar aida Orchestra 42. 0 London Suite ‘Coates 12.30 p.m. Dominion Weather Forecast 12.33 Afternoon Variety 1.30 Take It from Here (BBC) (A Tepetition of..yesterday’s broadcast from 1X) 2. 0 Close down 6. 0 For Our Younger Liecnans 6.39 Melodiously Yours 7. 0 The Ambassadress 7.30 BERT McNAMARA (piano) The Nearness of You Carmichael After You’ve Gone Leyton Missouri Waltz Logan Sweet and Lovely Lemare St. Louis Blues Handy ‘ (Studio) 8 0 The Blue Danube 8.30 Sy: ruth is Stranger: Vital Quarter — Hou 9. 4 "With a Song in My Heart: Paul Reubens 9.325 Sunday Nocturne 9.40 Devotional Service: Father T. Ryder of the Roman Catholic Church (Studio) / 10.0 The RCA Victor’ Chorale of Women’s Voiees condueted by Robert Shaw with Susanne. Freil (soprano), Florence Koplet! (contralto) and Laura Newell (harp) \ Ceremony of Carols ape 10.30 Close down IV ico ROTORUA, 10.156 a.m. Join Charles Thomas with the king’s Men 10.30 Popular Classics 11. 0 Palace of Westminster (BBC) 411.20 Band Musie¢ 41. Op.m. Dinner Music 2.0 A Chapter in. Musical Autobiography €. Foster Browne (final) , 2.30 Sunday Afternoon Concert 3.30 The Road to. Nationhood: The Years of: Agitation (NZBS) 4.0 The Music of Edward German Dow t You Find the Weather Charming? .¢Tom Jones) Pastoral Dance \ | Merrymaker’s Dance (Nell Gwynn) My Song is of the Sturdy North Glorious Devon The Coronation mpren (Henry VIII) -Yeomen of Englan God Save (Merrie England)

4.30 For Our Younger _ Listeners: sovereign Ladies: Mary IL, (BBC) 5. 0 Rook Shop. (NZBS) : 5.30 Schoo! of Home Science: A docuInentary about the Home Science faculty at Otago University (NZBS) 6.10 Where Did lt Come From? Origins of Slang Expressions : 6.45 In Reverent Moods 7. 0 PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE: St. John’s Church Preacher: The Rev... A. Salmond Organist: L. Somerville Choirmaster:. H. Taylor 8.5 Christmas Carols : 8.25 Showease: Terry Vaughan and his Orchestra with soloists Ngaire Crawford and Jim Greenlees (NZBS) 9.12 Weekly News Summary in Maori 9.39 Musie of Johann and Josef Strauss, Michael Morley (boy soprano) 10.22 The Epilogue (BBC) 10.30 Close down Y WELLINGTON $70 ke. $26 m. 5. Oam. Breakfast Session 6.30 Loeal Weather Conditions 8.45 News from Home (BBC) 10. 0 Band Music . 10.46 Quiet Mhterliude 11. 0 PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE: Kelburn Church Preacher: Rev. R. A. G. Maddock Organist and Choirmaster: D. McKenzie 2. 6B p.m. Melodies You know 1. 0 Pinner Musie 2..0° London Studio Concert The New Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Bernard Heinze Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor Nicolai Norfolk Rhapsody No. 4 Vaughan Williams March for Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique) Tchaikovski (BBC) 2.29 Walter Gieseking and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan Variations Symphoniques Franck 2.45 In Quires and Places Where They. Sing: Carols sung by the R.C.A. Victor Chorale | 3. 0 Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication, in St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, on the occasion of the first State yisit to Seotland of QOneen Elizabeth Il after Her Majesty’s Coronation, conducted by the Verv Rev. Charles L. Warr, K.C.V.0.,-D.D., LL.D., and the Rt. Rev. James Pitt Wilson, D.D. The order of the service: The Arrival, The Approach, Psalm 20, Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer, Psalm 8&4, the Lessons, the Apostles’. Creed, Sixtieth Paranhrase. the Sermon, the ‘Phanks¢iving, the Dedication, Anthem, the Intercession, Hymn, the Blessing of the Oueen, the National Anthem, the Renediction (BRC) 4.16 Concerto Grosso No. 8 in D Minor (Christmas Coneerto) Corelli 4.30 Oraen Music for Christmas 5. O Children’s Song Service: Rev. M. A, MeDowell. with Methodist Junior Choirs (Studio) — Kan Memory Lane 5.an Redin Nigest a15 SAlon Music 79 CHURCH OF CHRIST SERVICE: Wellinaton South Church Preacher: Rev. M. J. Savage Organist "and Choirmaster: Mrs. M. R. Downer 8.5 $#Ptri¢e Mimsel and the Guild Choristers, with 47. Geodman’s Orchestra 8.35 Musie 10 Remember: Alfred Newman’s Orchestra 942 News in Maori . 9.4n Rise Stevens (mezzo-soprano) 10.10 Richelieu, Cardinal or King (first @nisode) 102% A New Year Concert: The Vienna | Philharmonic Orchestra NEN The Eniloene (BBE) 11.2% Clase Aown OV(\,, WELLINGTON. 660 ke 5. Op.m. Symphony Orchestras of America The Boston Symphony Orchestra Overmre: Egmont Beethoven Symphony No. 34 in C, K.38388 Mozart 5.35 Enolish Cathedral Music St. Panl’s Cathedral Choir 6. 0. Wilhelm Kempff_ (piano) Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 Brahms 6.45 Short Story: The Right Key, by ' Temple. Sutherland (NZRS) 6.30 Sunday Evening Concert Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun ; Debussy Rapsodie Espagnole Ravel

7.0 VALDA JOHNSTONE (piano) Sonata in D Minor Sonata in C Scarlatti Prelude, Chorale and Fugue Franck (Studio) 7.21 The Guilet String Quartet ‘ Quartet No, 4 in D Minor Arriaga 7.45 Suzanne Danco (soprano) 8. 0 THE NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by Warwick Braithwaite Second programme of works by N.Z. composers Festival Overture Gray Cindy: A Sqnare Dance for Strings Heenan Variations on a Personal Theme Braithwaite (NZBS) 8.40 The Three Kings: A Nativity Play "hy Mordaunt ane with music by Anton Gibbs (NZB 9.45 The Fleet Sticet Choir conducted by T. B. Lawrence Missa in Honorem Sancti peg © 410. 8 The Vienna Chamber Oroheniee Symphony No. 6 in D. (Le Matin) Haydn 10.30 Close down 2yD 1130 WELLINGTON 7. z4 p.m, Pand Music 7. Heritage of Song 8. 0 The Norman Cloutier Strings 8.30 Dad and Dave 8.45 Anne Ziegler and- Webster Booth 9. 0 Halt of Fame 9.30 Melodies. 4nd Memories 10. O District Weather Forecast Close down QXG oo GISBORNE, 8. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 9.3 Gisborne Salvation Army Band conducted by David Waugh (Studio) 9.30 Raritone and Ballads 9.40 Rallet Music 10. O Hospital and Old Folks’ Requests 10.45 Theatre Mixture 41. 0 Close down 6.30 p.m. For the Children: Gisborne’s Younger Artists (Studio) f 6.45 Pinocchio 7. 0 First Rehearsal (BBC) 7.45 Beauty That Endures 8.15 Intermezzo 8.30 Pioneer Christmas: Old Identities Recall New Zealand’s Early Days 9. 3 Mario Lanza (tenor) 9.29 Quiet Interlude 9.40 Devotional Service: Anglican (Studio) 10. 0 Kathleen Long, with the. National Symphony Orchestra of England conducted by Boyd Neel Piano Coneerto in B Flat, seo 410.30 Close down QYE sco xo NAPIER 4, 40. 0 a.m. Band Music : 10.16 The Road to Natlonhood: The Colony Hits Out (NZBS) 2 40.56 Tenors, Baritones and Basses 41.59 London Studio Melodios (BBC) 12.40 p.m. Dinner Music 1.43 The Griller String Quartet The Seven Last Words from the he nt Op. 54 Dd. (Recor during a performance at ine Cathedral Chureh of St. Paul, Wellington) (NZBS) pet

NATIONAL. BROADCASTS Dominion Weather Forecasts YA and YZ Stations: 7.15, 9.0 a.m.; 12.30, 6.25 and 9.0 p.m. X Stations: 9.0 p.m. YA and YZ Stations 6. a an ern News. Breakfast Session As 6.10 % 10, 7.18 and 8.10 Rugby Score: N.Z. y. Wales, First Test at Cardiff 7. 0, 8.0 London News. Breakfast Session 7.18 Cricket: Summary of second day’s play, N.Z. v. North-East Transvaal 9.4 Cricket Summary Rugby: Edited commentary on First Test 12.33 p.m. Rugby: Eye-witness: Account Cricket Summary .30 BBC World Affairs Talk 6.30 London News (not 4YZ) 6.40 National Announcements (not 4YZ) 6.45 Radio Newsreel (not 1YZ and 4YZ) 8.45 Sunday Evening Talk 9. 0 Overseas News 9.30 Rugby Summary: N.Z. v. Woles, First _ Test at Cardiff

Sunday, December 20 :

2.46 Sunday Matinee: Short Story--Ciro the Swordfish, by G. F, Spencer esl and Variety (BBC) 6. 0 Children’s Session: Jungle Doctor, and Junior Naturalists 5.30 Ballad Recitals: Lex MacDonald (baritone) Eleanore Slow, Horses, Slow Mallinson Drake’s Drum The Old meee Stanford (NZBS) Cinema Organists 6. 0 For Your Library (NZBS) 7. 0 ANGLICAN SERVICE: St. Matthew’s Church, Hastings Preacher: Rey. kK. F. Button Organist: J. A. Trindall "S ‘> ane Melachrino Orchestra and tr .25 fachel Piank (soprano) and Brian Schofield (tenor) Soprano: Home, Sweet Home Bishop Tenor: The English Rose (Merrie England) German Duet: Song of Songs Moya Soprano: Listen, Mary Brahe Tenor: Serenata Toseilli Duet: Down the Vale Moir (Studio) 8.12 News Summary in Maori 8.38 The Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra Overture: Nell Gwynn German | 9.45 Sergei Rachmaninoff (piano) 970. O Reflections and Epilogue (BBC) 10.30 Close down QXPNEW PLYMOUTH 8. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 9. 3 Band Music 9.30 Hospital Requests 10.30 Claude ry (’cello) N 910.46 John Charles Neiihes with the King’s Men 41.0 Close down 8.30 p.m. Operas and Operettas 7.0 Variety Fanfare (BBC) 7.30 The Blue Danube 8.0 Cavalcade of Melody 8.30 Crime is Our East Met East in Liverpool (BBC) ® 3 ESSIE McBETH (mezzo-soprano) The Flower Song (Faust) Gounod One Fine Day (Madam Butterfly) Puccini Softly Awakes My Heart (Samson and Delilah) Saint-Saens (Studio) 820 Ginette Neveu (violin) 9.40 Devotional Service: Rev. F. T. Olds Of the Methodist Church (Studio) 10. 0 Serenade 10.30 Close down 2KA xg VANGANUY | 8. Gam. Breakfast Session 8. 4@ Rumba Rhythms ‘8.30 #R.S.A. Notes 9.40 Scottish Variety kang ee Wanganui Sports Page (Norm nh) 10.16 from Musical Comedy 10.30 Music of the Peopie (BBC) 41. 0 Close down 6.30 p.m. For Our Younger Listeners: Welcome to Christmas (Merric Paulet); Little Cosette (NZBS) 7. Q@ The John Charles Thomas Show 7.30 Marian Anderson (contralto) is ' Pablo Casals (’cello) Play: Box and Cox, by John Maddison (NZBS) 8.30 NITA OLDHAM (piano) Flocks May Safely Graze Bach-Fiemming Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Bach-Hess My Heart Ever Faithful Bach-Scott (Studio) 8.45 Nights at the Ballet 9.4 Royal Opera House © Orchestra, Covent Garden Overture: Tancredi Rossini Tenor Time 40 Devotional Service: Rev. R. W. Culpitt of the Anglican Church (Studio) 10. 0 ulet Melodies 1 lose down QXN is40 AVELSON,,, 8. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 8.4 They’ Wrote the Music: Franz Schubert (Part 1) (NZBS) 9.20 Classical Miniatures 9.45 Recent Releases , 10:30 imperishable Stories: Caprice, hy Alexander Kyprin, adapted by Oliver A. Gillesple (NZBS) 10.40 Piano Transcriptions by Liszt 41. 0° Close down m. Children’s A gui In the Reign of oe (NZB 7.0 Come Into th Parlour, (BBC) 7.30 Nalson Newsreel

8.15 No Name (BBC) (final broadcast) 8.45 Luton Girls’ Choir 9. 4 The Paris Philharmonic Orchestra Ballet Suite: Raymouda Glazounoy 9.40 Devotional Service: Salvation Army (Studio) 10. 0 Serenade to Evening 710.30 Close down 9 CHRISTCHURCH 690 ke 434m. 7.57 a.m. Canterbury Weather Forecast 10.°4 iaearts for You 10.30 Songs of the Cook Islands: Kaitara Pupuke and his Raretongans (NZBS 10.45 Short Orchestral Pieces 11. 0 CONGREGATIONAL SERVICE: Linwood ae Preacher: Rev. Henry R. Ball Organist: Maurice H. Baker 12. Sp.m. Famous Melodies 12.38 Concert Celebrities 7.0 Dinner Music 2. 0 Band Music 2.30 The Eustace Diamonds (final broadcast) (BBC) (To be repeated from 3YC at 8.0 tomorrow) 3. 0 National Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication, in St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh (BBC) (For details see 2YA) 4.15 The Child Intellectually Handicapped, a documentary by Basil Clarke (NZBS) 4.45 Concert Hall String Quartet 5. 0 Children’s Session: H. \W. Beaumont 5.30 Instrumenta] Soloists . Oo On Wings of Romance: Henry Rudolph’s Harmony — Serenaders = and John McDonald (NZBS) 7. 0 PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE: St. Paul’s Church Preacher: Rev. Stuart Francis Organist and Choirmaster: George Martin 8. 5 The Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra : The London Suite Coates 8.19 Christmas Musie Around the World 9.39 National Symphony Orchestra of America ; Noel; Symphonic Sketch Chadwick 9.47 The, Seagle Singers The Sdn of the Highest: A Christmas Cantata 410. 0 Late Evening Concert 10.62 The Epilortue (BBC) 41.20 Close down SY6 GH PIRISTCHURCH Op.m. Concert Hour 0 Ballet: Swan Lake, Op. 20 (Part 2) Tcohaikovski 6.35 Operatic Excerpt 7. 0 VALDA JOHNSTONE (Ausiralian pianist) Sonata in D Minor Sonata in C Major Scarlatti ~prelude, Choral and Fugue Franck (Studio Recital from Wellington) 7.29 Victoria de los Angeles. (soprano) 7.32 Elleen Joyvee (piano), Henri Termianka (violin) and Antani Sala (Cello) Trio in D Minor, Op. 32 Arensky 8s. 0 THE NATIONAL ORCHESTRA con ducted by Warwick Braithwaite For details see coe . (NZBS) 8.41 NANCY (contralto) . Jaeobean Lyrics Quilter The Jealous Lover Why So Pale and Wan? I Dare Not Ask a Kiss f The Constant Lover : Three Pastoral Songs uilter 9 I Will Go with My Pather 4-Ptough-ing Cherry Valley I Wish and { SVish (Studio) 8.55 The Amadeus String Quartet Quartet in_C, Op. 76, No. 3. (Emperor) aydn 9.20 Short Story: A M atter oF Form, hy Teraple Sutherland (NZR 9.34 penis Matthews 710.30 (lose down’ OAC 1 160d IMARU 8. 0 a.m. ps 9. 4 Band Session mer adie Star: Zino Francescatti 10. 0 Light Orchestras i 10.14 Ballad Recital ‘ Thomas E, West. (baritone) (NZBS) 41. 0 Close down eka 6.30 p.m. For One. a Listeners: Hereward the Wa 7. 0 Firat (BBC) 258 m.

7.30 CLARE HIGINBOTTOM (piano) Nocturne No. 4 in A Nocturne No, 5 in B Flat Nocturne No. 7 in A Field (Studio) 45 Scottish Session 0 The Old Firm .30 Christmas: Music: Joyvee Wright, Patricia Fitzmaurice and Noreen Daly (sopranos) and Dorothy Hitch (contralto) Solo: Joseph Was A-Walking Thiman Duet: The Angel Rubinstein Solo: Tryste Noel Orr Trio: Celtic Lullaby Solo: Sweet Christmas Time Weckerlin Duet: Cradle Song Moszkowski Solo: Wander, Sweet Mary Bernoff Trio: Love on My Heart from Heaven Fell Holst (Studio) 9.30 Soliloquy 9.40 Devotional Service (Studio) 10.30 Close down 1) | SS pane» 10.10 a.m. Calling All Hospitals 11. 0 For the Pianist 12. O Dinner Music 1. Op.m. Band Music 2.0 Encore y 2.30 On Wings of Romance, with Henry Rudolph’s Harmony Serenaders and John MacDonald (NZBS) 2.54 Short Story: Crime by Night (NZBS) 3.30 Anna Russell sings: Advice on song selections for concert singers "7: Christmas songs: Avondale Symphonic Choir 4.17 Baliad Recitals: Robin Gordon (tenor) (NZBS) 4.30 Classical Requests 6. 0 Children’s Song Service: Rey. A. 0. Dorrian 5.390 Folk Songs and Dances 5.55 A Matter of Luck 7. 0 ROMAN CATHOLIC SERVICE St. Patrick’s Church Preacher: Father T. Parrell Organist: J. J. Brown Choirmaster: Joseph. Wood 8. 5 Old Familiar Tunes 8.30 DOROTHY THOMAS (contralto) O Thon That Tellest Ife Shall Feed His Flock tie was Despised (Messiah) MHandel (Stua@io) 9.10 West Coast Sports Results 9.40 Melba 10. 5 At Close of Day 10.20 The Epilogue (BBC) 410.30 Close down AVA DUNEDIN 780 ke. 384 m. 10. O a.m. Puris Conservatoire Orchestra Nutcracker Suite No, 2, Op. 714 Tchaikovski 10.30 Morning Star: Simon Barere 11. 0 CHURCH OF CHRIST SERVICE South Dunedin Church R Preacher; Rev. E. Kay Vickery 12. 0 Coneert Celebrities 1.40 p.m. Pinner Music 2. 0 People Look East: International Chrisimas earois and customs by tue Myra Thomson Ensemble (NZBS) 2.17 A Christmas Carol: The Dickens Story with Alec Ghinness as Scrooge (BBC) 2.47 New Symphony Orchestra Serenade in E Minor for Strings, Op. 20 gar 3. 0 National Ssrvice of Thanksgiving and Dedication, in St. Giles Gathedral, Edinburgh (BBC) (Por Getails, see 2YA) Time for Music (RRC) 5. 0 Children’s Sunday Service 5.30 Ralph in Shakespeare’s. England (NZBS) 6. 0 Light Reeitals . 0 ANGLICAN SERVICE Paul’s Cathedral Preacher: Very Rev, Dean P. James, Organist: Chas. F.. Collins 8. 5 Boyd Neel. String Orchestra Overture: Faramondo | Concerto Grosso in B Flat, Op. 6, No. 7 Handel 4.25 The Madrigal Singers, conducted by Elsie Naylor The Nightingale ‘ Weelkes Seek Sweet Content Wilbye O How Should 1. My True Love Know , Gardner Dawn inva Flowery Vale Festa _ All Creatures NoW Are Merry Minded ( Studio) Bennet

9.45 Forenoon: Impressions of the ancient tug-of-war between teachers and taught, written by Gwyn Thomas (BBC) 10.53 Epilogue (BBC) 11.20 Close down 4YC 900 UNEDIN,, |. 5. O p.m. karly Evening Concert 66. CO King Arthur: ~The Passing of | Arthur, the final programme on the life and death of king Arthur, adapted from Malory’s Morte d@aArthur, by Moira Doolan (BBC) 6.30 Recitals 7.0 VALDA JOHNSTONE (Australian pianist) Sonata in D Minor Sonata in € Scartatti Prelude, Choral and Fugue Franck (Studio Recital from Wellington) 7.20 Suzanne Danco (soprano) with the Cincinnati Symphony ~ Orchestra Song Cycle: Nuits d’Ete Berlioz 7.50 Ellen Ballon (piano) 8. 0 THE NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by Warwick Braithwaite For details see 2YC (NZBS) 8.40 Teachers’ College Women’s Choir conducted by G. FE. Wilkinson Cantata: Day That 1 have Loved le Fleming Carols: Hereford Carol Milford From Heaven High Lullaby Naylor (Soloist: Maureen Tavendale) In Nightly Stillness Merrily to Bethlehem arr. Bax (Violin Obbligato: Theo Staples) 9.2 The London Chamber Orchestra Divertimento in B Flat Berkeley 9.20 Irmgard Seefried (soprano) Songs by Mozart The Philharmonia String Quartet Quartet in G, K.465 Mozart 10. 0 Reginald Kell (clarinet) and the London Philharmonie Orchestra concerto in A, K.622 Mozart 10.30 Close down 4X) 1430 DUNEDIN m. 9.30am. Radio Church of Helping Hand 10. O Little Chapel of Good Cheer 10.30 ‘Timely Topics from the Bible 41. 0 Voice of Prophecy 14.30 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 12. 0 Close down AY] ANVERCARGILL 10. Oa.m. John Charles Thomas and the king’s Men 10.45 Farthest South Afoot: Readings by A. H. Reed from his forthcoming book (NZBS) 41. 0 London Studio Melodies: Ray Martin’s Orchestra (BBC) 11.30 From Stage and Screen 12. 0 Band of H.M. Guards’ Brigade 12.40 p.m. Dinner Music 1.45 Weekend Magazine: American Song Album-Williamm Warfield; The Child Intellectually Handicapped, a documentary by Basil Clarke (NZBS); Comedy Corner; tmnperishable Stories: Trimalchio’s Dinner, by Petronins, adapted by Oliver A. Gillespie (NZBS) ; New Releases 4. 0 London Studio Concerts Slavonic Rhapsody No. 2 in C Minor Dvorak Air from Suite in D Bach Ceremonial March: Queen and Commonwealth Whyte | BC) 4.27 Felicja Blumental (piano): |. Spanish and Portuguese keyboard Music |B. O Children’s Song Service 5,30 The Road to Nationnood: The Colony Hits Out (NZBS) 6.12 Sinfonietta 6.30 Colleetor’s Corner 7s.:@ METHODIST SERVICE St. Peter’s Church Preacher: Ré®v, L, C. Clements Organist; Allan Woods | Choirmaster: J, R. Wesney 8. 0 SicDian Folk Songs: Guiseppe di Stefano (tenor) 815 No Name (BBC) (final broadcast) 9.12 ALLAN TREGONNING (piano) Five Pieces from the Christmas Tree Liszt (Studio) 9.29 Glasgow Orpheus Choir 9.50 The Grier String Quartet The Seven Last Words from. the Cross, Op. AM : Haydn (Recorded during a performance at the Cathedral Chureh of Ste Paul, Wellington) (NZBSY 19.52 Epilogue (BBC) ‘ 11.20 Close down {

Sunday, December 20

Weather Forecasts from ZBs: Dom., 7.35 a.m., 12.30 p.m.; Dist., 9.30 p.m.

Weather Forecasts from ZBs: Dom., | 7.35 a.m., 12.30 p.m.; Dist., 9.30 p.m.

ZB wie 20m. 7.30 a.m. Junior Request session 7.35 Dominion Weather Forecast 8.45 Brass Band Parade 9.15 Uncle Tom and the Friendly Road Children’s Choir 10. 0 Music Magazine : 10.30 Sports Round Up (Bill 11. O The Friendly Road Service of Song 12. O Listeners’ Requests 12.30 p.m. Dominion Weather Forecast 2. 0 The First N.Z. Christmas (NZBS) 3. 0 Humphrey Bishop Parade 3.30 Picture Parade: The Cruel Sea (BBC) 4.0 Yachtsmen’s Weather Forecast 4. 1 The Bing Crosby Show, with guest artist Peggy Lee (final broadcast) (VOA) 5. 0 Diggers’ session (Rod Talbot) 6.45 Children’s Feature: They Wrote the Music: Ludwig van Beethoven EVENING PROGRAMME 6.30 Uncle Tom and the Sankey Singers 7. 0 Variety Fanfare (BBC) 7.30 Thirty Minute Theatre (BBC) 8. 0 Take It From Here (BBC) 8.30 Radio Theatre Show, featuring the Auckland Studio Orchestra conducted by Oswald Cheesman ¥ 9. 0 In the Microgroove Manner 9.15 Weekly Newsletter by Winston McCarthy 36 ZB Book Review : 12. 0 Close down | 278 ei he 7.30a.m. Breakfast session 8. 0 Uncle Tom and his Children’s Choir 8.20 Junior Request session 9.20 The Services session (Colin MoKay) 10. 0 Religion for Monday Morning 10.45 The World of Sport (Wallie Ingram) 11. 0 Bands on Parade 11.30 The First N.Z. Christmas (NZBS) : 12. 0 Listeners’ Requests 2. Op.m. Radio meninee 2.30, Humphrey Bishop Parade 3.30° The ae oo George Hudson ( 6.30 They Wrote the Music (NZBS) EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Reserved 6.30 Captain Cain (NZBS) (last broad-| cast) oe) Variety Fanfare (BBC) / 7.30 Maddon’s Rock (NZBS) (first broadcast) 8. Take It From Here (BBC) 8.30 Bing Crosby Show (VOA) (iast broadoast) 9. 0 In the Microgroove Manner 9.15 Weekly Newsletter by Winston MoCarthy : 9.35 ZB Book Review 12. 0 Close down ) 37 CHRISTCHURCH 1100 ke. 273 m. m 7.36 a. _dunior Request Session .30 for Sunday . 0 Uncle Fom and his Children’s Choir | 9.18 Rotun Roundabout for the. Bandsman O Treasury of Music 30 Sportsreel 2. 0 Listeners’ eases 2. Op.m. Radio Matinee 3.0 The Humphrey Bishop Parade ~ | 3.30 The Britigh Overseas: Lord Lugard BBC) — a" 4.30 Variety : 5. 0 Royal Cavalcade (NZBS 5.30 For the Children: The dventures | of Johnny van Bart EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Captain Cain (NZBS) 6.30 Studio Presentation 7.0 Variety Fanfare (BBC) 7.30 Maddon’s Rock (NZBS) 3 8.0 Take it from Here: Joy Nichols, Dick Bentley and Jimmy Edwards (BBC) 8.30 Bing Crosby Show with guest — Peggy Lee (VOA) (final broadcas 5. 0 In the Microgroove Manner 9.15 Weekly Newsletter by Winston McCarthy : 9.35 ZB Book Review 10. 0 Sir Thomas Beecham Conducts

10.30 Ezlo Pinzar $3.42 Sewprin with the Mel : Orchestra : = 1/11. O in Lignter Vein 12. 0 Close down rs achrino | 4ZB woe ae. 6. Oa.m. Morning Programme Northast for | | 7.36 Cricket Results; N.Z. vy, : East Transvaal | 7.45 Sacred Half Hour 8.15 Breakfast Session io 3 My, 4 Results: All Blacks v. Wales (First Test) : 9.8 Sunday Morning Concert 9.30 4ZB Junior Choristers 9.45 Reserved 10. 0 Around the Bandstands (Fiugel) 10.30 The Humphrey Bishop Parade 11. O Sports Digest (Brian Russ) 11.45 Orchestral Favourites 0 The Otago Request Session 2. Op.m. Radio Matinee, featuring the latest material from overseas 2.30 First N.Z. Christmas (NZBS) 3.30 British Guiana (BBC) : 418 Children’s Choir (Studio) = on Show (final broadc 5.30 Children’s Feature: What EVENING PROGRAMME Is the Law? (final broadcast) (NZBS) 6. 0 Captain Cain (NZBS) 6.30 Orchestral Serenade 79 Variety Fanfare (BBC 7.30 Mr. Hartington Died Tomorrow (NZB 8.0 Take It from Here (BBC)

8.30 The Bing Crosby Show (VOA) (final broadcast) In the Microgroove Manner 9.15 Weekly Newsletter by Winston McCarthy 9.35 ZB Book Review 12. 0 Close down 27 PALMERSTON Nth. 940 ke. 319 m. 8. Oa.m. Junior Request Session 9. 3 Sportsview (Bob Irvine) 9.30 Bandstand 10. O Songs by Stephen Foster 10.15 The Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra 10.30 The First N.Z. Christmas (NZBS) 10.50 Remember These? The Eight Piano Symphony 11. 0 Music from Stage and Screen 11.15 Ballet Music: The Paris Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Manuel Rosenthal Su 3. 0 ite from Raymonda, Op. 57A Glazounov -m. Dominion Weather Forecast Music by Richard Rodgers Rhythm Parade (first broadcast) Nelson Eddy (baritone) Florian Zabach (violin) The Palmerston North Choral Union conducted by J. Holmes-Runnicles, with soloists Daphne Ellwood (soprano), Robin Kopua (contralto), Dickson Tizard (tenor) and George Scott-Morrison (baritone) Excerpts from Messiah Handel 3.30 Powe 4.0 The British Overseas: Lord BadenIt (BBC) The Humphrey Bishop Parade

4.30 The Martin Gravener Trio: Piano, String Bass and Drums (NZBS) 4.45 Stars of Variety 5. 0 At the Console | 5.15 Irish Interiude | 5.30 For the Children: They Wrote the Music (NZBS) ; EVENING PROGRAMME /6. 0 The Palmerston North Music. Club : Choir conducted by George Morrison, ) with soloists Naomi Eglinton, Ava Wilson and Peggy NeWlands Excerpts from Orpheus Gluck \7. 0 Variety Fanfare (BBC) feo Mr. Hartingdon Died Tomorrow (NZBS) (first broadcast) 8.0 Ray’s a Laugh (BBC) (final broadcast) 8.30 The Bing Crosby Show with Guest Artist Judy Garland (WOA) 9. 0 Drawing Room Favourites: Harry Ashcroft (piano) (final broadcast) (Studio) 9.15 All Blacks Weekly Newsletter (Winston McCarthy) , 9.30 Reverie 9.40 Devotional Service: Rev. Hayes Lioyd of the Baptist Church (Studio) 10.30 Close down

Palmerston North artists to be heard today from 2ZA include at 6.0 excerpts from Gluck’s melodious opera, "Orpheus," presented by the Palmersten North Music Club’s Choir, conducted by George Morrison, with soloists Naomi Eglinton, Ava Wilson and Peggy Newlands, and at 9.0 the final programme of "Drawing Room Favourites’’ by Harry Ashcroft (piano). A te ttt cn