From the ZBs

New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 768, 9 April 1954, Page 26

From the ZBs

[HE story of Edward German and his success as'a professional musician is told in A Man and His Music-Edward German, a BBC programme which will be broadcast from 2ZB at 9.0 p.m. on Good Friday. The programme features the BBC Welsh Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Arwel Hughes, and the songs sung by Denis Griffiths (tenor) include some of the settings to Kipling’s Just So Stories which gave German enormous delight and pleasure to write. This programme is one of a number 'of BBC features, both musical and spoken, which Commercial stations will broadcast on Good Friday. From 1ZB and 3ZB at 9.0 p.m. there will be programmes of English song, and at the same time 2ZA wi!l broadcast a feature on the music of Lionel Monckton and 4ZB will present Tantivy Towers, a light opera by A. P. Herbert and Thomas F. , Dunhill. : | Spoken features. from the BBC will be broadcast .from all Commercial stations at 7.30 p.m. One of these, about Cecil Rhodes, is mentioned on page 19; From 3ZB will be heard The Boy From Greece, the story of Vassilios Vellos, _the Greek boy with the Welsh accent , who spoke in the programme which pre_ceded the Queen’s Christmas Message in 1952. (This moving story of a boy’s | courage will be heard also from 2YA at | 9.30 a.m. on Sunday, April 18), Other | programmes are Destroyer, the story of H.M.S. Kelly, from 2ZB; Quest in the Desert, a feature about Lasseter’s Reef, from 4ZB; and Rendezvous in Crete, which tells how a German General was | kidnapped on Crete, from 2ZA.