Friday, December 31

New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 805, 24 December 1954, Page 34

Friday, December 31

HNsen Ye 9. 4am. Operatic Highlights 9.30 Mirth and Melody 10.10 Devotions: Captain Lawrence Weggery 16.30 Orchestral Interlude 10.45 Sports Roundup: Commentaries on Alexandra Park, and the Plunket Shield Cricket Match, Auckland v. Otago, from Fden Park 5.15 p.m, Children’s Session 7.30 interlude for Music (BBC) 38. 5 Microphone Musicals 8.30 The Good Companions 9.40 Take Your Partners 10.20 Short Story: Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger, by Saki, adapted by Oliver A, (rillespie (NZBS) 10.30 Hogmanay: For Scottish Listeners 11.20 Musical Variety by Auckland Artists from Whenuapai Air Station (NZBS) 3 ae Last Year’s Tunes Close down ve 820 AUCKLAND | O0p.m. Chamber Music Hour ry 0 Choruses from Opera 3.30 Violin Music 4. 0 Arias from Oratorio 4.30 Symphony 5. 0 Close down 6. 0 Dinner Music m: @ The Concertgebouw Orchestra Concerto ‘ Bartok 7.37 John Charles Thomas (baritone) Operatic Arias 8.5 The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company Scenes from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest 8.30 Harriet Cohen (piano) Music by Bach, Bax and Kabalevsky 8.52 The Hollywood String Quartet Quartet No. t in D, Op. 11 Tehaikovski 8.17 Aksel Schiotz (tenor). and Gerald Moore (piano) Song Cycle: The. Poet’s Love, Op. 48 Schumann 9.43 Poems- by Robert Browning 40. 0 The London Philharmonic Orchestra Comedy Overture: Beckus the Dandipratt Arnold | Fritz Kreisler (violin) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 Mendelssohn The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra gerinphony No. 2 in B Flat Schubert Close down ni 1250 k AUCKLAND, |. 4 0 p.m. Louis Levy’s Orchestra 5. Hawalian Harmony 5.30 Hit Memories 6. 0 Star Time: Dick Haymes 6.15 Merry Melodies 6.45 chips 7.0 Music from the Movies 7.30 Behind the Footlights 7.45 Rumba Rhythm 8.0 Rollicking Songs 8.30 Top Tunes of 1954 9. 0 Let's Have a Party 10. O District Weather Forecast . Close down TXN oLHANGAR GY 7. Oa.m. . Breakfast Session 8.0 Junior Requests 2. 0 Women’s News from Town 9.30 Morning Melodies 40. 0 Delia of Four Winds 10.145 Housewives’ Quiz (Lorraine Rishworth) (studio) 10 "30 The Dark God 410.45 Fate Walked Beside Me 11. 0 Close down 6. Op.m. Melody Lane 6.43 Strictly Instrumental Sports Preview (Eric Blow) Reserved =~ Tudor Princess c Record Roundabout ‘ 3 An Album of Favourite Melodies 8.4 4 June Hutton and Gordon MacRae 8.40 Dancing to Victor Silvester — 9.4 Sing Me a Happy Song 9.15 Over to You me re tae 9.45 Shand’s Ban 40.0... ey iy, Mitche ell and Mindy Carson: 10.18 Winifred Atwell (pianos) 10.30 Callin the Tune: Whangarei People the Hits of 1954 12. 0 Welcome, 1955 12.15 a.m. Close down

Haff AMILTON, .. 7. Qa.m. Breakfast session 7.45 Weather Report 9. 0 Shoppers’ session (Shirley (Maddock) 9.30 Waltz Roundabout 9.45 Continental Artists 10. O Honor Bright 10.15 Out of the Shadows 10.30 Pretty kitty Kelly 10.46 Delia of Four Winds 11. O Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New 12. 0 Musical Mailbox: Hamilton 412.33 p.m. Lunch Music b he Meredith Seandal 1.15 Strike Up the Band 1.30 Webster Booth 1.45 Rawicz and Landauer 2.0 Women’s Hour (Marjorie Green), Dinner at Antoine’s: Five Minute Food Talk: Weekend Entertainment; Talk, 1 Remember Vienna 3. 0 New Year Concert 3.30 The Country Doctor 3.45 Crosby Tine 5 at. Academic Festival Overture Brahms Incidental Music to a Midsummer Night’s Dream Mendelssohn Royal Fireworks Suite Handel 4.45 Voices of Spring 5. 0 Junior Naturalists 5.15 Modern Variety 5.45 Alias Jane Morgan 6. 0 Ranch House Refrains 6.15 Hits from the Films 6.30 Fabian of the Yard 6.45 The Harry Grove Trio 7.10 Quiz Kids 740 Johnny Raven 8. 0 Rumba Rhythms 8.15 Hit Parade, 1954 8.45 Comedy Corner 9.4 In Festive Mood 9.30 Over to You (BBC) 10. 0 New Year’s Eve Party 12. 0 Auld Lang Syne 12.15a.m. Close down YZ 800 ROTORUA, m, 9. 4am. From the Irish Roads 9.30 The Burtons of Banner Street 10. O Harriet Cohen (piano) 10.15 Devotional service 10.30 Music While You Work ; 411. 0 For Women at Home: Family Daze 41.30 Music in the Mantovani Manner 2. Op.m. Music While You, Work 2.30 Barclay Allen (piano) 3.0 Commentary on New Year’s Eve Street Procession 4.0 American Variety Stars 4.45 Light Orchestras 5.15 For Our Younger Listeners: The Magic hey 6. 5 Dinner Music 6.46 = Baritone Arias from Opera 7.15 1Y¥Z Sports Reporter 7.30 Family Favourites 8. 5 Commentary on New Year’s Eve Street Procession (a recording of the broadcast at 3.0) : 8.30 Short Story: The Lion Tamer, by D’arey Niland 8.41 For the Bandsman 9.40 New Year’s Eve Requests bg New Year’s Eve Festivities at Sound e 12.15.a.m. Close down ) WELLINGTON $70 ke. $26 mm. 5S. Qa.m. Breakfast session 7.58@ Wairarapa, Wellington City and Hutt Valley, and Martborough Weathe: Forecast 9. 4 The National Symphony Orchestry of England 9.39 Morning Star: Marian Anderson 9.40 Music While You Work 10.10 Devotional Service 10.30 Thev Married at Gretna Green 41. 0 Women’s session: emeimber un Visitors of the Year? : 41.30 Country Dancing: Barn Dance : (BBC) .

; 2. Op.m. Music by Spanish Composers . La Procession de Rocio | Symphonic Rhapsody Turina ) The Lover and the Nightingale Granados Concerto dete Rodrigo Dances from The Three Cornered Hat Falla 3. 0 The Strange House of Geotrrey Marlowe 3.15 Cricket Commentary: M.C.C. v. Australia, at Melbourne 3.35 Music While You Work 4. 0 A Tale of Hollywood 4.30 Rhythm Parade 5.0 keyboard Favourites 15 Children’s session: Story for Little Ones: The Game’s the Thing wef: > , Cricket Commentary: M.C.C. v. Aus6. 5 Musical Memories 6.22 Produce Market Report 7.415 Sports Parade 7.30 Song and Ee! of the Maori 7.45 Cricket Commentary: M.C.C. v. Australia | 8. & This was 1954: Some of the high- : lights of 1954 as thev came to you through your radio (NZBs) | 9.40 Hogmanay: A Scottish celebration for New Year's Eve Studio) 10.15 Sports Mirror of 1954: \ review of the yeur’s sporting events (NZBS) |} 11.16 Rhythm on Record (Tirntable) 1145 The World Concert Orchestra 12. 0 Ring in the New: A Toast to the New Year 12. Ba.m. N.Z,. Artists to the Fore Close down OVC. WELLINGTON ; ) ) 660 ke. 5. Op.m. Karly Evening Concert 6. 0 Dinter Music 7°70 Lorna Sydney (mezzo-soprano) and Alfred Poell (baritone,, with the Vienna State "Opera Orchestra ss songs from Youth’s Magic Horn Mahter 7.30 Through the tron Qurtain (BBC) 8. 0 The Londen symphony Orchestre Ballet Muosie: Swan Lake Tohaikovski 9.44 New Years Past: Bb. M. O'Conner looks back at earlier New Year celebrations in N.Z. (NZBS) 10.0 The Zorian String Quartet Quartet No, 2 in F Sharp. Minor Tippet Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Brittetr (plano) and the Zortan String Quartet On Wenlock’s Edge Vaughan Williams The Griller String Quartet, with Pauline Juler (clarinet), Ceeil James (bassoon), Ges Brain Morn) and James Merrett (Dass) Octet Ferguson 11. 0 Close down

| | 2Y) WELLINGTON | 7. 0 p.m. Masters of Melody: Vivian Ellis (BBC) 7.30 Comedy Time | 7.45 Heart of the Sunset | 8. 0 Song Styles: Dinah Shore | 8.15 Reminiscin’ with Singin’ Sam | 8.30 Variety Fanfare BBC) i 9. 0 The Donald Peers Show | 9.30 Those Were the Days 10. O District Weather Forecast | Close down | ONG oro GISBORNE, .. | ; 7. Oa.m. Breakfast Session |9. QO Feminine Viewpoint (Pamela Kemp) | 9.30 The Amazing Duchess | 9.45 The Caravan Returns } 10. 0 Out of the Shadows } 410.145 The Merry Macs 10.30 Holiday Mood 144. 0 Close down (6. Op.m. Teatable Tunes ' 6.30 Strict Tempo Dance Music | 6.45 The Black Arrow | 7.15 keyboard Capers | 7.30 Tudor Princess | 7.45 Pops in Harmony 8.3 Reminiseip’ with. Singin’ Sam 8.20 The Boston Promenade Orchestra 8.30 Carmen Miranda 8.45 Aviation. Talks: Civil Aviation, by William Courtenay (NZBs) 9. 3 London Studio Concerts The BBC Northern Orchestra Irisli Rhapsody No. 5 Stanford Suite’ in F tenet. Orchestra Jacob (BBC) 9.35 \ Symphonic Portrait of Irving Bertin 10. 0 Old Time Ballroom (BBC) 10.30 Ray’s a Laugh ‘New Yeur Edition) y 1 (BBC) 1.0 Music of Robert Stolz 1.20 Harry Lauder and Jimmy Shand’s Band 11.240 The Ilits of 1954 /11.55 New Year’s Concert Party }412.15 a.m. Close down NY] 860 ke. NAPIER 9. 4am. Housewives’ Choice 10. The Insects in Your Life: Those in Your Gardens, by A. D. Lowe (NZBs) 10.145 Master Musi¢e 1045 Country Doctor 41. 0 Musie While You Work 1.30 Thanks for the Memory | | 349 m. 1 2. Op.m. Music While You Work 2.30 For Our Seottish Listeners | 2.50 Light lustrumentalists | 3.35 Violin Concerto No. 4 in Db, K.2ts Mozart | 4. 0 Velba | 430 Edmunds Res and his Orchestra, 4.45 Fred Hartley Plays 5. 0 The Merry Maes 5.15 Children’s session: Tarzan of the Apes 7.15 For the Sportsman (Studio) 7.30 Will These be Hits? 8 5 Dream Time 8.30 Educating Archie (BBC) 9.40 The searlet Pimpernel 10. 5 Wartv Tunes of Yesteryear 1 0.30 Masters of wears: Haydn Wood (BBQ) 11.0 Take It From Here (New Year Edition) (BBC) ISS Faraway 1964 (from the Sound shell) 12.15 a.m. Close down ;

"NATIONAL BROADCASTS Dominion Weather Forecasts YA and YZ. Stations: 7.15, 9.0 a.m.; 12.30, 6.25, 9.0 p.m. X Stations: 9.0 p.m. YA and YZ Stations 6. Oa.m. London News. Breakfast Session (YAs only) 7. 0 8.0 London News. Breakfast Session 11.30 Country Dancing 12. 0 Lunch Programme 3.15 p.m. Cricket Commentary: M.C.C. wv, | Australia 5.45 Cricket Commentary: M.C.C. v. Australia 6.30 London News toy: Radio Newsreel (not 1YZ) New Year Message from His ExcelRe the Governor-General, Sir Willoughby Norrie (X stations will also link) 7.10 National Sports Summary 9 0 Overseas ang N.2. News 915 United Nations 9.30 , oars from N.Z. Bowling Championship 1. News (YAs and 4YZ)

Friday, December 31

AXP Nie EMO a.m. Breakfast Session 730 District Weather Forecast Women’s Programme (Elizabeth Bauman) : Malayan Newsletter .30 The Ladies Entertain 45 The Five Smith Brothers 0.0 Delia of Four Winds 0.145 The Meredith Scandal 0.30 Johnny Napoleon 0.46 Fate Walked Beside Me 1.0 Close down Op.m. Children’s Session (Simon Sam) .30 Vocal Groups 45 Remember These? 0 Reserved 15 Sports Review (Mark Comber) .30 Strict Tempo Time with guest artist Jimmy Young 1 Highlights of 1954 3 A New Zear’s Message from His Worship the Mavor, E. 0. E. Hill .20 Dad and Dave 45 Ronnie Ronalde Entertains 0.0 Over to You (New Year Edition) (BBC) 0.30 A New Year Concert: The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 41.0 Time for a Party 1.30 Hogmanay 12.15 a.m. Close down CNA iid NSO 7. Oam. Breakfast Session "Weather Report Especially for Women (Patricia Murphy) 24 + 20D OM .30 Hits of Yesterday 0. 0 Strange Endings 0.145 Son of the Storm 0.30 Sidney Torch and his Orchestra 0.45 True Confessions 1 Close down c? .m. Strict Tempo Melodies Weather Report and Town Topics Entertainers All Reserved Piano Playtime Tip Top Tunes Nom de Plume Reminiscin’ with Singin’ Sam The Fire of Etna At the Console The Blue Danube St. Martin’s Summer 0 Carnival Capers: Highlights from the Wanganui Carnival (from Cook’s Gardens) 10.30 Top Tunes, 1954 114. 0 Town Topics, 1954 Take It -o Here (New Year pg (BBC 50 The New Year In: Relay of Festivi--ties Cook’s Gardens 12.15 a.m. Close down 2XN 1340 NELSON 224 7: Oa.m. Breakfast Session iy? gio -~ODORBDonn NDAD aa © ° * faahoosaon 7.30 District Weather Forecast 9. O Between Ourselves: Feminine Topics 9.30 Melody Fair 10. O Fashion Magazine 40.15 The Meredith Scandal 10.30 A Place of Honour 10.45 Men in Chorus 11. 0 Close down .m. Dinner Music Harry Horlick’s Orchestra Reserved The Top Hits of 1954 Ray’s a nage (New Year Edition) ( The Gus Merzi ouinterte Table Talk: Meat and Poultry, by D. McDonald (NZBS) Fairy Tales with a Difference Ceilidh Bands 0. 0 Jazz and Party Songs 41. 0 Over to the Scots 11.45 A Happy New (from the Post Office Clock Tower) 12465 a.m. Close down jy; CHRISTCHURCH 690 ke 434 m. Gy be a Canterbury Weather Forecast 9.4 Music by Frank Loesser 9.30 Popular Overtures 9.45 Tenor Time: Walter Midgley 0 Cricket: Commentaries throughout on the Plunket Shield Mateh: Canterbury v. Central Districts 10.16. On a Holiday Note 410.30 Devotional Service 41. 0 Mainly for Women: Personality Homes on a Budget, by Ruth Sherer; Miss Susie Slagle’s 414.30 Summer Rhapsody Sat Bae ™ Canter Due! Weather Forecast 2.0 Mainly for Women: Mobile Micro-. phone; for the Home Cook 2.45 Contrasts in Love sc tag 2 DINOD GarGS oSocmio

3.40 Cinema Rhapsodies 4.15 Songs from Films 4.33 Suggestions for Tonight 5.15 Children’s Session: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (BBC) 6. 5 Light Musie 7.15 Sports Magazine (NZBS) 8.5 In the Spirit of Hogmanay: Scottish Story and Song collected and told by James Masterton 8.40 Music for the Old Time Brother9.40 Inspector West 10. 6 Camp Concert: Recordings made at a recent Concert by 3YA verges Artists at Burnham Military Camp (NZBS) 10.40 Favourites of 1954 11.140 in Full Swing 11.50 Ring Out the Old (From Cathedral Square) 12. 0 Midnight Prayer, by Henry Sturge 12.10 am. Old Time Dance Party %. 6 Close down SO GHRISTCHURCH 5. Op.m. Concert Hour 6.0 Dinner Music 7. 0 Moura Lympany (piano) Symphonie Studies, Op. 13 Schumann 7.21 Gerard Husch. (baritone) Songs from the Maid of the Mill Schubert 7.41 Campoli (violin) and the New Symphony Orchestra Concerto No. 1 in G Minor Bruch 8. 6 Poems by Burns, read by Harold L. Wightman 8.15 Felicja Blumental (piano) Aria in D Minor Angles Sonata in C Minor Cantallos 8.23 Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Seven Popular Spanish Songs Falla 8.39 Ruggero Gerlin (harpsichord) and Noelie Pierront (organ) Concerto in G Soler 8.47 Quotation and Misquotation: Wit and Humour, by Alan Mulgan (NZBS) 9, 1 The London Chamber Orchestra Capriol Suite Warlock 9.15 Frederick Grinke (violin) and the Boyd Neel String Orchestra The Lark Ascending Vaughan Wiiliams 9.29 Arias from Il Seragiio Mozart 9.49 Victor Aller (piano), Mannie Kleir pene and the Concert Arts Orchesra Concerto in C Minor Shostakovich 10.12 A Farmer’s Safari: The story of a nine thousand mile journey in Africa and the Sudan (BBC) 10.41 The Halle Choir and the Halle Orchestra ae Things Shall Be Ireland Close down XC 1160 k JIMARU,,, 7. e8 Melodies 9. 0 Good Morning, Ladies (Doris Kay) 9.30 Calling Temuka 9.45 Vocal Pairs 10. 0 Reserved 10.15 Rowan Lodge 10.30 The Life of Michael Chance 10.45 Selections and Medleys 11. 0 Close down

p.m. Melody Parade Latin-Americana Popular Dance Bands Harmonica Harmonies Tudor Princess The Cat Scratches 7.45 Vocal Interlude 8.10 Scotland the Brave: A spot of Hogmanay from Jimmy Shand, Robert Wilson and other recorded entertainers 9. 3 Short Story: Misogyny’s a Myth, by Temple Sutherland (NZBS) 22 Light and Bright 45 Film Fare 0. 0 Excerpts from the Vienna Philharmonic New Year Concerts 0.55 We Visit the Bay Sound Shell 4.10 Melodies for the Occasion 1.45 Timaru Welcomes the New Year: A Sound. Picture of the scene on Caroline NNNDOHODH bo oouonO 9. 9. 1 1 1 1 Bay 12.15 a.m, Close down bss ee ~ 4a.m. Morning Music Hall Morning Star: Richard Crooks 10. QO Devotional Service 10.18 Country Doctor 40.30 Music While You Work 41. 0 Women’s session 2. Op.m. Music by Wagner Overture: The Dutchman Wotan’s Farewell (The Valkyrie) Vorspiel and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde) Song of the Outback Music While You Work Music from the Ballet The Burtons of Banner Street The Latins Take Over Songs of the Range Harry Davidson’s Orchestra From the Land of the Heather Children’s session: The Moonflower *- OND Fzasa Gohonoaaa ABC) Sports Preview: lan F. Thompson Rudolph Friml (piano) Play: The Demagogue, by Reginald ha based on the life of John Wilkes, 9. _ Death Takes Small Bites 10. O The Glasgow Orpheus Choir 1039 Uneasy Money: Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford in a comedy by John Jowett (BBC) 10.45 Tops of the Pops 11.30 Hogmanay: for the Scots cag 1 Ring Out the Old, a Happy New 12. 4S . m.. Close down fy ‘DUNEDIN 780 ke. 384 m. 9. 4a.m. In Holiday Mood 410.10 Instrumental Interlude 10.20 Devotional Service 10.38 Morning Proms 11.0 Topics for Women: Short StoryTime of the Year, by Kay Andrews; It Happens Once a Year--The Haggis Ceremony, Aberdeen, by Enid Sonntag; People of the Year, A. Manning

2. Op.m. teeg-i Tne Ballads 2.30 Samba T 2.45 Poitonanse’ 3.35 CLASSICAL HOUR Overture: Rienzi Wagner Serenade in C, Op, 48 Tchaikovski Bolero Ravel 4.35 Favourite Negro Spirituals 4.50 Leo Demant (piano) 5.15 Children’s session: New Year’s Eve at the Palace, by Judith Powell; The Game’s the Thing (ABC) 6. 5 My Son, Tom 7.15 For the Sportsman: Lankford Smith 8. 5 The Passing Year: 1954 in Retrospect 9.40 Pathways to Freedom: Escape through Storm 10.5 Your Dees. Party: Tony Pastor’s Orchestra VOA 0.15 Lou Stein totand 10.30 Ralph Flanagan’s Orchestra 11.15 In Scottish Vein 11.45 A Scots’ Hogmanay, with William Brown and Charlie Turner 12. 5 a.m. Dance Music 1. 0 Close down AYO s00 PUNEDIN,, 4 Op.m. Concert Hour . 0 Dinner Music 0 Sonata Recitals Gyorgy Sandor (piano) Sonata in B Minor Lisz. Emanuel Brabee (’cello) and Franz Holetschek (piano) Sonata in D Minor, Op, 40 Sncceneviek 7.53 Suzanne Danco (soprano) Ariettes Oubliees Debussy 8. 7 The Curtis String Quartet Quartet in B Flat, Op. 67 Brahms 8.39 Lyrics, read by Carleton Hobbs 8.47 The Zimbler Rip raniesty Symphony No. Boyc 8.55 The Cambridge "University Society Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers Wilbye Sweet Suffolk Owl Vautor Though -Amaryllis Dance in Green 4 yr Say, Love, If Ever Thou Didst_ Find Dowland Of All the Birds That I Do Know Bartlet 9. 7 #£Elizabeth Goble fRarparmiyay Queen Elizabeth’s Pava Bull Woodycock Variations Farnaby 9.18 London Studio Recitals The BBC Scottish Orchestra Overture: The Kiss Smetana Second Scottish Rhapsody McKenzie Fantasy Scenes Harty BBC) (To be repeated from 4YA at 2.0 on Sunday) 9.47 Mozart Maria Stader (soprano) Ah Conte Partite Per Pieta, Bell’ *taol Mio Voi Avete Un Cor Fedele The Orchestra of the Suisse Romande conducted by Peter Maag Serenade No. 9 in D, K.320 10.44 Jean Pougnet (violin), with the London Baroque Orchestra * Sag Noster | Cherubinl Close down Ny JNVERCARGILE 9. 4a.m. Children’s Corner: Treasure Island; The Obenkirchen Children’s gt br ap Classical Cameo 10. Devotional Service 10.1 48 The Burtons of Banner Street 10.30 Music While You Work 41. 0 Women at Home: The Final Year 2. Op.m. The Bishop’s Mantle 2.15 Symphonic Music Roumanian Rhapsody No. 2 in E Enesco Piano Concerto in A Minor Schumanr 3.0 Song and Story of the Maori NZBS) .35 Music ay A Work Qo Scotish sessio 15 The By es ng rite Show 4.45 Band Musi 5.15 Children’s " sessions Junior Sto time; 7000 Miles from N.Z, (NZBS } Feathered Friends 6. 5 Musie for the Tea Hour Ligh oft ee Music . e Keynot 8.5 Southland Hit Parade, 1954 9.40 The Year Passes: Highlights of 1954 10.10 Sports Roundup 410,30 The Guy Lombardo Show 11.20 The Caledonian Pipe a of Invercargill, with Archie Jones (tenor), and Jimmy Shand’s Band; narrator, J. M. Condle 12.146 a.m. Close down

Friday, December ~31

District Weather Forecost from ZBs: 7.30 a.m., 1.0 p.m. and 9.30 p.m.

District Weather Forecast from ZBs: 7.30 a.m., 1.0 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. -_-

1ZB mw mn 6. O a.m. Breakfast Session 9. 0 Morning Session (Aunt Daisy) 9.30 Tommy Reilly 9.45 We Travel the Friendly Road 10. 0 Doctor Paul 10.15 The Renegade 10.30 The Imprisoned Heart 10.45 Portia Faces Life 11. 0 Batons and Bows 11.30 Shopping Reporter (Jane) 712. 0 Meiody Menu 2. p.m. Reserved 2.15 Tommy Dorsey 2.30 Women’s Hour (Marina), Weekend Entertainment; Gardening with George Dean; | Remember Vienna: Long Ago and Far Away, by Clare Mallory 3.30 Light Orchestral Concert 4. 0 Yachtsmen’s Weather Forecast ee Black Pianorama South Sea Serenaders Variety Billboard Buylines by Cherry EVENING PROGRAMME The Merrymaker’s Programme In Strict Tempo Friday Nocturne Race Results: Auckland Daily Diary His Excellency the Governor-Gen-Quiz Kids Theatre Mixture $ TTas oO- = SoloONGOOO ougou ~ NN aba

7.45 Johnny April 8.0 Three Roads to Destiny 8.15 New Year’s Eve Variety 8.45 The Cat Scratches 9. 0 Dancing Time 9.32 Sportsman of the Week 9.45 Cricket: M.C.C. v. Australia 10. O Sports Preview (Bill Meredith) 10.30 Contraband 11. 0 For Your Party Tonight 12. 0 Ring Out the Old; Ring In the New 12.30 a.m. Pops That Were Tops in 1954 41.0 Close down 2IB we en . O am. Breakfast Session 15 Railway Notices rt) Morning Session (Aunt Daisy) 30 Morning Melodies 0. 0 Doctor Paul 0.145 A Good Idea Quiz (Marjorie) 0.30 _- Imprisoned Heart (first broadcast 10.45 Portia Faces Life 41. O Light Variety 11.30 Shopping Reporter (Doreen) 412. 0 Musical Parade 2. 0 p.m. Reserved 2.15 Orchestral Interlude 2.30 Women’s Hour (Miria), Overseas News; Weekend Entertainment 3.30 Baritone Ballads 3.45 American Orchestras 4.0 Contrast of Voices ; 4.15 Cyril Stapleton’s Orchestra 4.30 Jimmy Young

4.45 Continental Hit Parade 5. 0 Ralph Sharon Plays 5.15 Betty Hutton 5.30 Romantic Mood 5.45 Ronald Chesney EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.30 Handful of Stars 6.45 Race Results: Auckland 6.47 New Zealand Artists 7.0 His Excellency the Governor-Gen-7.10 Quiz Kids 7.40 March of Science : 8. 0 Three Roads to Destiny 8.15 Black and White Keys 8.30 Rhumba Rhythm 8.45 The Cat Scratches 9. 0 From Our Long-Playing Library 9.32 Sportsman of the Week 9.45 Cricket: M.C.C. y. Australia 10. 0 Sporting Digest 10.30 Contraband 41. 0 Dancing Time 1. O a.m. Close down

3ZB vw am 0 a.m. Breakfast Session GQ Breakfast Club (Happi Hill) 15 Feet-Tapping Tunes 0 Morning Session (Aunt Daisy) -30 After Breakfast Tunes 0 Doctor Paul 5 Piano Parade 0 David’s Children 10.45 Portia Faces Life 11. 0 Musical Miscellany 11.30 Shopping Reporter (Elizabeth Anne) 12. 0 Lunch Session 2. Op.m. Reserved 2.30 Women’s Hour: Weekend Entertainment; Overseas News; True Confessions 3.30 The Music of Straus and Strauss 3.45 Songs That Have Soid a Million 4.0 Rhythm Organists 4.15 A Little Laughter ; 4.30 Variety Hour 5.30 Junior Leaguers 5.45 Moments of Destiny EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Coventry New Hippodrome Orchestra 6.15 Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae 6.30 Piano Playtime 6.45 Race Results: Auckland 6.47 Prospective Pops for 1955 7. 0 , His Excellency the Governor-Gen-era 7.10 The Quiz Kids 7.40 Serenade for You 7.45 Scrapbook 8. 0 Three Roads to Destiny 8.15 Music Hall Revels 8.30 Wally Stott and his Orchestra 8.45 Songs of Good Cheer 9.15 Records in Retrospect 9.32 Sportsman of the Week 9.45 Cricket: M.C.C. v, Australia 10. 09 Tune Time 10.15 Sports Preview 10.30 Contraband 11. 0 New Brighton Is on the Air 12. 0 Farewell, 1954; Welcome, 1955 1. Oam. Close down

4ZB won 200m 6. 0 a.m. Breakfast Session 9 Weather Forecast 5 Morning Star 0 Morning Session (Aunt Daisy) 0 Melodies for Madame O Doctor Paul 15 The Meredith Scandal 30 David’s Children ’ 45 Portia Faces Life Q Random Records 30 Shopping Reporter QO Lunch Music 0 p.m. Melody on the Move 0 Reserved 5 Light Orchestral Corner .30 Women’s Hour (Christeen Strang), Overseas News; Weekend Entertainment 30 Afternoon Musicale 0 From the Land of the Heather 15 Walitzland -30 Reginald Dixon 45 Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra 0 Tea Time Tunes EVENING PROGRAMME . O Talking Sport (Brian Russ) 30 Contraband . O Let’s have a Party . © To Greet the New Year Qa.m. Close down 6. 0 Disc Parade 6.30 Off the Record 6.45 Race Results: Auckland 7. 0 , His Excellency the Governor-Gen-era 7.10 The Quiz Kids 7.40 Melody Mixture 8 0 Three Roads to Destiny 8.15 Variety 8.45 I Spy 9. 0 Startime 9.32 Sportsman of the Week Cricket: M.C.C. v. Australia 1 1 1 1 ""NA00; 27 PALMERSTON Nth. 940 ke. 319 m, 7.0 a.m. Breakfast Session 9. 0 Good Morning Requests 9.30 Meiodies from Latin America 9.45 Vocal Spotlight: Charles Kullman 10. 0 Alias Jane Morgan 10.15 True Confessions 19.30 Out of the Shadows 10.45 Bardelys the Magnificent 11. 0 Shopping Reporter (Margaret Isaac 11.30 Music for All Tastes 12. 0 Lunch Music 1.30 p.m. The Mystery of Nurse Lorimer 2. 0 Salvation Army Bands 2.15 Margaret Whiting Sings: 2.30 Women’s Hour (Kay), Dark Abyss 3.30 Symphonic Interlude 3.45 British Choral Groups 4.0 Tavern Bands 4.15 The Weavers 4.30 Eddie Calvert 4.45 Light Concert 5.15 Popular Parade ; 5.45 Ray Bloch’s Concert Orchestra EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Teatime Tunes 6.30’ Evening Star: Bob Eberley 6.45 Race Results: Auckland 6.47 Hits of the Thirties . 0 His Excellency the Governor-Gen-Py os £ Johnny Napoleon Ray Anthony’s Orchestra Vocal Duettists Three Roads to Destiny David’s Children Mystery Stable Emergency Melodies in Waltz Time Theatre Royal Sports Preview (Norman Allen) 45. Cricket: M.C.C. v. Australia Robert Farnon’s Orchestra I Love a Mystery New Year’s Eve Requests Hits of 1954 0 am. Close down BoRSRORSR Ass NI ° * NOCO; a ono

SPORTS RESULTS Results from the Auckland Trotting Club’s Meeting will be broadcast from ZB stations on the hour and half-hour throughout the afternoon, with summaries at 2.0 p.m., 3.30 p.m. and 5.0 p.m. Final results from 1, 2, 3, 4ZB and 2ZA at 6.45 p.m. CRICKET: The scoreboard at lunch, afternoon tea and stumps in the Plunket Shield matches at Christchurch and Auckland will’ be broadcast from ZB Stations at approximately 12.50 p.m., 3.40 p.m. and 6.0 p.m. M.C.C. vy. AUSTRALIA: A review of the first day's play in the Third test at Melbourne, by Eric Bedser, will be broadcast from Commercial Stations at 9.45 p.m.

Although there’s a touch of sadness about an old year’s passing, gaiety and revelry are much to the fore. Accordingly, 3ZB’s New Year's Eve programme will be bright, adding to the general atmosphere of the season. ok * * At 10.30 p.m. 2ZA will present a special New Year’s Eve Request Session, which will be followed at 12.0 by "Hits of 1954."