Children's Song Services

New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 17

Children's Song Services

N experimental change in.the manner of broadcasting the Children’s Song Service at 5.0 p.m. on Sundays will take place this month, when all four April broadcasts will be given over a link of the YA stations. The Service on each of these Sundays will be conducted by the Very Rev. Martin Sullivan, Dean of Christchurch, and the broadcasts will be held at the usual time, from 5.0 to 5.30 p.m, Bishop E. J. Rich, a member of the Central Religious Advisory Council in Wellington, said that this experiment was part of an attempt to improve the standard in broadcasting children’s religious services. These broadcast services required people with special gifts to conduct them in a way to make the best appeal to a radio audience, and Dean Sullivan’s previous conducting of the sefvice had met with very wide appreciation throughout New Zealand. Children’s religiqus broadcasts also required intensive and careful preparation,

Bishop Rich said,.and; by allowing a sequence of broadcasts to one church, and one expert within that church, more time could be devoted to achieving the highest standards. The church hoped that by giving Dean Sullivan the con-| ducting of the service on four successive Sundays in April he might have the time and.opportunity. to show ways of strengthening the appeal of the Song Service, and.point towards a more permanent future arrangement along similar lines. The first broadcast conducted by, Dean Sullivan will be heard this Sunday, April 4, at 5.0 p.m.