Good Friday, April 19

New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 922, 12 April 1957, Page 47

Good Friday, April 19

lV AUCKLAND 760 ke. 395 m. 9. 4a.m. Concert Hour 10. © Combined Service for Good Friday: Beresford Street Congregational Church Preacher: Rey. R. F. Clement Organist: W. Forsyth 11. 0 Celebrity Artists 11.30 Orchestral Concert 12. 0 Good Friday Devotions for the Three Hours: From St. Mary’s Cathedral, conducted by Rev. A. Catley 3.0 p.m. Consecration of the House Overture Three Sacred Songs Symphony No. 5 in C, Op. 67 Six Variations in F, Op. 34 Beethoven 4. 0 Inez Matthews (mezzo-soprano) Negro Spirituals 4.16 Alfredo Campoli (violin) 4.30 Moura Lympany (piano) with the Philharmonia Orchestra Concerto in A Minor Grieg 5. 0 Kirkintilloch Junior Choir 5.15 Reginald Kell (clarinet) 5.30 Teatime Concert 6. 0 The New’ Symphony Orchestra Four Centuries Suite 7. 0 Raphael Arie (bass) 7.15 MUSIC FOR GOOD FRIDAY (For details see 2YA) 8.15 Wilhelm Kempff (piano) 8.30 Westminster Light Orchestra Music by Schubert 9.16 Avalling Grace 9.30 The Richard Crean Orchestra 9.45 Play: The Barat, by ‘Veronica "Haigh, adapted by Oliver A. Gillespie (NZBS) 10.45 In Quiet Mood 41.20 Close down 1Y¢ 880 AUCKLAND, m. ke. 6. O p.m. Dinner Music 7. 0 The Lamoureux Concert Orchestra Symphony in E Flat, Op. 9, No. 2 : J. C. Bach 7.16 The Carrot or the Stick? A talk by Ormond Wilson (NZBS) 7.34 The New Symphony Strings Joyful Day Nostalgia ? Lullaby (African Sulte) Sowande 7.50 Songs of the Hebrides: The final programme of Hebridean Songs collected and arranged by Marjorie KennedyFraser, sung by Edna_ Boyd-Wilson (mezzo-soprano), with Leslie Comer. p tol pada 8.15 Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) Sonata No. 3 in C, Op. 2, No. 3 8.41 The City of Birmingham Orchestra Symphony No. 3 in F, Op. 76 Dvorak 9.20 George Maran (tenor) with the London String Quartet and Ivor Newton (piano) Song Cycle: On Wenlock Edge Vaughan illiams 9.456 THE SEVEN LAST WORDS (For details see 2YC) 41. 0 Close down YD sd UICKLAND, m. 6. Op.m. Guy Lombardo’s Orchestra 5.15 Merrill Moore (piano) 6.30 Voices in Harmony 5.45 Harry Davidson’s Old Time Dance Orchestra . oO Les Baxter’s Chorus and Orchestra 6.15 Songs for Harmonising 6.30 Kate Smith (vocal) 6.456 Orchestral Favourites 7. New Releases 7.16. A.J. Allen Stories 7.30 Songs of the Islands 8. Listeners’ Classical Requests 9.0 #£=In Lighter Vein 9.30 Robert Farnon’s Orchestra 10. O District Weather Forecast Close down IXN .hvVHANGAREI | 8. O a.m. Breakfast Session 9.4 The Swiss Radio Orchestra 9.44 Music for Good Friday 10.10 Alfredo Campoli (violin) 10.30 Folmer Jensen (piano), and the teemver Orchestra of the Danish State adio . Goneerto in C, K.467 mozart 41. 0 Close down 6.0 p.m. For Younger Northland: The Moon Flower 6.15 The Boston Promenade Orchestra Waltzing with Waldteufel 6.33 The Songs of Stephen Foster 6.45 Music for Strings 7.0 Reserved

7.30 . 9. 4 9.30 Hots haw. 8.18 9.15 9.30 10. 0 10.30 2 Suite In Olden Style, Op, 24 monia Orchestra conducted by Galliera ac ieden No. 1 in B Flat Minor, Op. 8. Syb 5 for Sin ’Twas in the Cool of Eventide (St. Angus Dei (Mass in B Minor) He Was seats CT rege Cuckoo and Nightingale Concerto Two Short Pieces H Two Chorale Preludes Praise God, Oh My Soul (NZBS) Four Songs by by 0 a.m. Cliferd Curzon (piano) with the National Symphony Orchestra of England Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 Br ahms 8.10 Victoria dé los ‘Angeles (soprano) 8.27 The Guilet String Quartet D’indy Short Story The Vienna Boys Choir Talk: Tight Lines, by R. ‘Dickenson (NZBS) Eric Robinson Presents Music for Good Friday Epilogue Close down YZ 800 ROTORUA, m. ry m a.m. Band Music A Handel Concert Devotional Service Hymns b Choir and Boys of Christ’s Hospita 40.60 Music by London Orchestras 41.30 Family Album hg QO Lunch Music . O p.m. A Meditation on the Passion of Lord (BBC) 2.30 Music by Mendelssohn 3.15 Folk Melodies Around the World 4.0 With Heart and Voice 5. 0 Hymns for Children 5.30 The Roger Wagner Chorale > 0 Dinner Music 7. 0 George Beverley Shea (baritone) 7.30 Gaza Anda (piano) and _ PhilharAlceo Tcohaikovski il MoKinney (contralto) Matthew Passion) Bach Handel C. Foster Browne (organ) andel Brahms Karg-Elert Margaret Ritchie soprano) Haydn Availing Grace Ballroom Orchestras Sports Reporter Close down WELLINGTON $70 ke. $26 m. Breakfast Session Popular Overtures Morning Star: Andre Navarro The Glasgow Orpheus ee London Suite Eric Coates Devotional Service Piano Music Music of Jerome Kern Patrice Munsel (soprano) Morning Concert Lunch Music

2. Op.m. — Sonata No, 27 in E Minor, Op. Beethoven String Quartet in D Minor (Death and the Maiden) Schubert 3. 0 Stations of the Cross (From St. Gerard’s Redemptorist Church) 4.0 Allegro Concert Orchestra Woodland Sketches MacDowell 4.15 Beyond This Place-20 (A repetiee of Wednesday’s broadcast from 4.45 Irving Fields’ Trio 6. 0 The Country Doctor 6.15 Musical Comedy Stage 5.30 For the Children: The Magic Toy- -. shop and The Happy Prince | 5.560 Dorothy Kirsten Sings Songs of George Gershwin 6.5 Robert Farnon’s Orchestra & Pe Mantovani’s Orchestra 7.15 MUSIC FOR GOOD FRIDAY: Amy Shuard (soprano), Gladys Ripley (contralto), Stewart Horner (treble); Harry Barnes and William Herbert (tenors) and Bryan Drake (baritone) with thé Choir of Westminster Abbey, the BBC Chorus and the Roval Philharmonic Orchestra, organist: Osborne Peasegood, conductor: ae ere McNair (BBC) 8.1 5 Forgotten Men: Mountstuart Elphinstone: The first of three radio biographies (BBC) 8.45 Instrumental Interlude 9.15 Availing Grace 9.30 Song and Story Ee the Maori NZBS 9.45 The New Sy Orchestra Ballet Suite: Graduation Rall Strauss-Dorati 10.26 John Hendrik (tenor) 10.40 The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Strings 11.20 Close down OVC... WELLINGTON 60 ke. 6. 0 p.m. Early Evening Concert 6.0 Dinner Music 7.5 #£Dinu Lipatti (piano) Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 Chopin 7.30 Biueprint for Prosperity: The Problems of Under-Development, _ the fourth of six talks by Andrew Shonfield (BBC) 7.45 Hans Hotter (baritone) : Love’s Message Warrior’s Forehoding Longing in Springtime Serenade Shea Place ar Away Farewell Schubert : Joseph Fuchs (violin) and Frank Sheri- — dan (piano) Sonata No. 1 in F, Pe a ‘ Poni a The Boston Symphony Till Op. 28 -iR.. Strauss Violin Concerto Menotti (Soloist: Tossy. Spivakovsky) Symphony No, 2 Honegger 9.35 Poems by Thomas Hardy 9.45 THE SEVEN LAST WORDS FROM THE CROSS by Haydn, played by the Griller String Quartet. This broadcast will be introduced by Alex Lindsay (All YC’s) 41. 0 Close down OY) ,, WELLINGTON. 130 ke. 7. Op.m. Music for Everyman 7.30 Streamline 8. 0 Piano Time 8.15 Latin American Rhythm 8.30 Melody Fare 9. 0 The Witiam Flynn Show 9.30 Those Were the Days 10. O District Weather Forecast Close down 2X6 010 @ESBORNE,, m, 8. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 9% 8 The Boyd Neel Orchestra Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 6 "NO. 6 Handei The Glasgow pees Choir Fileen Joyce (piano) 9.45 Heddle Nash (tenor) 10. O Requests from the Old Folks 40.30 Richard Tauber and the Sigmund Romberg Orchestra 41. 0 Close down 6. Op.m. For the Children * 6.30 Albert Sandler’s Palm Court Orchestra 6.60 Victoria de los Any les (Soprano) 7. 0 Semprini Among the Classics 7.20 Franz Winkler Quartet

‘7.30 Ron Jarden Calis on Shylock: A Story of a play (NZBS) 7.40 Jascha Heifetz (violin) 8. 0 Jan Peerce (tenor) and the Boston Promenade Orchestra 8.30 Music from Messiah 8.45 Talk: The History of the Theatre in New Zealand, by Nola Miller 9.3 Vienna Philharmonic Wind Group nd eh Chamber Orchestra of the State Op Psintonta Concertante in E Flat, ne 9 9. 35 From Comic Operas and Giseranon 410. O Spanish and Italian Keyboard Music 10.15 To End the Day 10.30 Close down QYL 860 x, NAPIER 349 m. 9.4 am. Organ Recital: Charles Peaker from Westminster Abbey, London 9.86 Boston Promenade Orchestra 70. OQ Combined Church Service: St. Pauls Presbyterian Church, Napier 10.45 Peter Yorke’s Concert Orchestra 11.16 Neapolitan Folk Songs: Miklos Gafni (tenor) 411.30 Morning Concert . 2. 0 p.m. Melody Cruise to Paris , 2.15 The Vienna Boys’ Choir 2.30 Vera Lynn Sings 3.0 #£Coppelia Delibes 4. 0 Playhouse of Favourites: A Trip to Scarborough 4.30 Sweet and Lovely with Jan Garber’s Orchestra 5. 0 Friday at Five 5.165 Children’s (eho Tales of Magic 5.45 Dinner . Music 7.30 Vineente Major (soprano) and Jean Kirk-Burnnand (piano) They Say That in Love How Deep is the Ocean Berlin My Love Song to a Tree Saunders They BY cect elieve Me Kern Alway Berlin Let’s" Say ee Coward (NZBS) 7AS Accordion Time with Enzo Toppano 8. 0 The Chordettes 8.15 On Stage: Six Talks on the History of the Theatre, by Frank Newman 8.30 Mantovani Presents Favourite Melodies from the Operas 9.3Q The Flower of Darkness 10. O Reflections 10.30 Close down

SERVICE SESSIONS Dominion Weather Forecasts YA and YZ Stations: 7.15, 9.0 a.m.3$ 12.30 p.m., 6.25, 9.0 X Stations: 9.0 a.m., 9.0 p.m. YA and YZ Stations 6. 0 a.m. London News, Breakfast Session (YAs only) 7. 0, 8.0 London News, Breakfast Session 7.58 Local Weather Conditions 12. 0 Lunch Programme 6.30 p.m. London News 6.40 BBC Radio Newsreel 9.3 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.16 Availing Grace: The Body of Christ, the final in a series of seven Lenten talks. Tonight’s speaker is the Rev. J. Matheson 11. 0 London News (YAs, 4YZ)

Good Friday, April 19

OXPNEW PLYMOUTH 8. Qa.m. Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London 8.30 Members of the Copenhagen Music Society Two Works for Voice and Organ Buxtehude 8.45 The Boyd Neel String Orchestra Alcina Overture Berenice Overture Handel 3. 3 The Voices of Walter Schumann 9.15 Wilhelm Kempt? (piano) 10. 0 Atonement and Redemption, a reading by Phillip Smithells from Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditation (NZBS) 10.30 ‘The Vienna Boys’ Choir 10.40 Musical Sketchbook 11..0 Close down 6. Op.m. Children’s Corner: The Small One, narrated by Bing Crosby 6.15 Music for You directed by Eric Robinson 6.45 Songs and Spirituais 7. 0 British Film Festival, recollections ot Pamous British Films 7.30 The Norman Lubaff Choir 8. 1 Parliamentary Portraits, the fourth in a series of six talks--Edward Gibbon Wakelleld. (NZBS) 8.15 Songs and Waltzes of Vienna 8.30 Playhouse of Favourites: A Tale of. Two Cities, by Charles Dickens % 3 Len Kerr (baritone) Jesus of Nazareth, King Hambien There is a Green Hill Far Away Gounod Calvary Vaughan Consider and Hear Me Wooler The Lord is My Light Allitsen (Studio) 9.20 Ballet Suite: The Sleeping Princess Tchaikovski 9.45 Hilde Gueden (soprano) 10. 0 Van Lynn’s Orchestra 10.20 (lnse dawn AXA 1208VANGANYE 8) Oa.m. Breakfast Session 9. 2 Charlie Kunz (piano) 98.30 Folk Songs and Dances | 10. © Boston Promenade Orchestra Ballet Suite Gluck arr. Mottl 10.16 The Vienna Boys’ Choir 10.30 Music for Wind Instruments 41. 0 Close down 6. Op.m. For Our Younger Listeners: A Little King Story (NZBS) The Foolish Koala 6.30 Early Talkie Memories 7. 0 Freddy Gardner 7.15 Musical Comedy Favourites 7.30 Music of Eric Coates and Edward German 3. 0 Songs by Australians 8.15 White Coolies 8.40 Light Classics 8. 4 Charles Naylor (bass) 1 Will the Cross with Gladness Carry The End is Come, the Pain is O’er Slumber On. Ye Weary Eyelids Bach (Studio) 9.30 Music for You (BBC) 9.45 Death Takes Small Bites 10. O Stan Freeman (piano) 10.30 Close down OXN 1340 )NELSON 224 8. Oam. Breakfast Session 8. 3 Music of Perey Grainger 98415 Good Friday Music 9.45 Reginald Kell (clarinet) 10.15 Songs of the Countryside (BBC) 10.45 Eric Robinson’s Orchestra 41.0 Close down 6. Op.m. Children’s Corner: Nursery Songtime; The Saga of Davy Crockett; The Happy Prince, by Oscar Wilde 8.30 Philharmon Orehestra with Vicria de los Angeles (Soprano) and Gina achauer (piano) 7.30 Under the Deep Sea: The story of the underwater explorers Dr Hans Hass and his wife Lotte (BBC) 8. 0 Viennese Operetta 8.30 Taik: Bonnet or Hood? (NZBS) 8.45 Norma Procter (contralto) %. 3 Results from Nelson Bowling Centre Easter Tournament 9.10 Radio Stage 9.36 Vienna Symphony Orchestra A Tchaikovski Fantasy 10. O Meditation 10.30 Close down

9V\ CHRISTCHURCH 690 ke. 434 m. 9.4a.m. A _ Suite of Verdi Melodies presented by Salvador Camarata’s orenGnrs 9.44 thleen Ferrier (contralto) 10. 3 Friml (piano) 10.15 Waltz Time with the Allen Roth Strings 11. 0 Combined Churches Service: Durham Street Methodist Church Preacher: Rev. M. R. Hodder Organist: G. R. Mathieson 12. O Lunch Music 2. 0 p.m. Music from Baflet 2.30 Piano Music 3.0 #£«x°\The Crucifixion: a meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer, by John Stainer The Whitehall Choir, with Jan van der Gueht (tenor), Denis Noble (baritone), and Frederick Woodhouse (organ). conductor: Clifton Helliwell 4.30 Courts of London 4.45 Kreisler Favourites played by Reginald Kell) 5. 0 Children’s Service conducted by Mr H. W. Beaumont 5.45 Footprints of History (NZBS) 5.50 The Prisca Quartet 7.145 MUSIC FOR GOOD FRIDAY (For details see 2YA) 8.15 Waltzes from Operetta plaved by the He!mut Zacharias String Orchestra 8.30 Portrait from __ Life: Professor Arnold Wall (NZBS) 9.15 Availing Grace , 9.30 Beyond This Place 410. 0 Music from the Sound Track of the film, The Vanishing Prairie 10.30 Dream Time, featuring Martha Lou (harp) and the Norman Lubolf Choir 41.20 Close down JIC SSRIS T 5S. Op.m. Concert Hour 7.0 The Prague Symphony Orchestra Festival Overture: Comenius Fibich 7.10 Jennie Tourel (mezzo-soprano) Songs by Rachmaninoff 7.18 Nunzio Montanari (piano), Giannino Carpi (violin) and Sante Amadori (cello) Trio No. 1 in D Minor, oceietialdiin 7.45 We Write Novels: Graham Greene discusses his work in the final programme of the series (BBC) 8.0 Joseph Fuchs (violin), — Lillian Fuchs (viola) with the Zimbler Sinfonietta Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Mozart Margaret Ritchie (soprano) with the Lyrebird Orchestral Ensemble The Fairy Queen Purcell 8.49 The Symphony Orchestra of Radio Stockholm Legends of Lemminkainen Sibelius 9.3 Menahem Pressler (piano) Ballade in G Minor, Op. 24 Grieg 9.24 St. George’s Chapel Choir, Windsor Te Deum in G Vaughan Williams

9.32 Jeanne Demessieux (organ) Variations from Gothique Symphony, Op. 70 Widor 9.45 THE SEVEN LAST WORDS (For details see 2YC) 11. 0 Close down 8X6 TIMARU, . 1160 ke. m. 8. Oa.m. Morning Music 9. O Dominion Weather Forecast 9. & Great Moments on the Operetta Stage 9.33 A Mantovani Concert 9.45 America’s Heritage of Song 10.16 Rawicz and Landauer (duopianists) 10.30 Music for Good Friday 41. O Close down 6. Op.m. For Our Younger Listeners: The Saga of Davy Crockett 6.30 Strings on Parade 6.45 Charles Kullman (tenor) 7. 0 Meditation on the Passion of Our Lord: Extracts from a play by Jean Peguy read bv Flora Robson (BBC) 7.30 Ronnie Munro Plays Chopin 7.45 Ballads Old and New 8.1 Eddie Calvert (trumpet) 8.13 The Glasgow Orpheus Choir 8.26 The World Concert Orchestra $.45 The Insects in Your Life: Those in Your Garden, a et: Suey D. Lowe | 9.4 Jerome cory Eveterechs 9.30 Play: Moby Dick, by Herman Meloak with Charles Laughton as Captain a 10. 3 Relax and Listen 10.30 Close down Jib apie EY MOU, 9. 4 am. Lighter Moments from the Classics 9.45 Morning Star: Heddle Nash 10. 0 Devotional Service 10.18 The Final Year 10.30 Peter Katin (plano) and the London Symphony Orchestra Concerto No. 2 in D Minor Mendelssohn 11. 0 Women’s Session: Doing the Flowers (Barry wereueon) i Maori Heroines (Kate Shaw) (NZB 41.30 The Dessoff Choirs, jd AR by’ Paul Boepple First and Second Lamentations of Jeremiah Orlando Lassus 12. QO Lunch Music > 2.0 p.m. Music of the Eighteenth Century 3. 0 A Variety of Ballads 3.30 Light Orchestral Fantasy 4.0 Indian Summer 4.30 1955 Barber Shop Chorus Winners 5. 0 Cinema Organ and Chorus 5.30 Fred Hartley (piano) 6. 0 ea Preview, by Ian Thompson 7.30 e Worshipper at Noon: A musical biography of Franz Liszt, written by Colin Shaw (BBC)

8.30 Orchestral Suite: The Four Centuries Coates 9.15 Avalling Grace --9.30 Light Theatre Orchestras 9.55 Florence Taylor (contralto) with Maurice Till (piano) Gipsy Songs Dvorak (NZBS) Dorothy Hopkins (soprano) and Arthur Cook (organ) Soprano: Recitative: And God Said Air: With Verdure Clad (The Creation) ag Organ: A Maggot ne Soprano: Break in Grief (St. Passion) Bach The oe Holst NZBS) 10.30 Close down AYA DUNEDIN 780 kc. 384 m. 9. 4 am. Morning Proms 10. O Music and Verse for Good Friday 40.40 Camillo Wanausek (flute), wiih Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, "Vienna concerto in D, K.314 Mozart 411. 0 Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe (duo pianists) Pieces for Two Pianos by Bach, Reger, Dvorak and Copland 11.30 Morning Concert mg QO Lunch Musie + O p.m. Speak the Speech, | Pray You: programme to celebrate 50 years of the Royal pent Sv Dramatic Art ‘2.80 Mitch Miller (oboe) with Percy Faith’s Orchestra 2.50 The Glasgow Orpheus Choir 3.40 Jascha Heifetz (violin) 3.30 Classical Hour Piano Concerto in C Minor, K.491 Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 554 Mozart 4.30 Rita Streich (soprano) 4.45 Music of Irving Berlin 65. 0 Mario Lanza (tenor) 5.15 Mantovani’s Orchestra 6.45 Rawicz and Landauer 6.0 +#£=-FFrank Chacksfield’s Orchestra (7.415 MUSIC FOR GOOD FRIDAY (For details see 2YA) Boyd Neel String Orchestra France Ellegaard (piano) Pieces by Liszt Availing Grace Kathleen Ferrier Sings Traditional ongs of Great Britain Music by Fritz Kreisler The Melachrino Strings Eugene Conley (tenor) Campoli Encores Guy Luypaert’s Orchestra Close down ANC 900 ke. DUNEDIN,, | 5. O p.m. Concert Hour 6. 0 Dinner Music #9 Maria Studer (soprano) Arias by Mozart 7.13 Pierre Fournier (cello) with the Stutigart Chamber Orchestra Pleces en Concert Couperin 7.26 The tnferno of Dante Alighieri: The fourth of six readings from the first book or the Divine Comedy, in the translation by Laurence Binyon (BBC) 8.15 Alfredo Campoli (violin) and George Malcolm (piano) Sonata in G Minor Tartini 8.30 The Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam Overture Entr’acte in B Flat (Rosamunde) Schubert 8.49 The Vienna Symphony Orchestra and €hoir Gesang der Parzen, Op. 89 Brahms 9. 2 Moura Lympany (piano) Les Jeux d’eaux a la Villa eure ;. 8z 9.11 The London Philharmonte Orchestra Good Friday Music (Parsifal) Wagner 9.24 Divers Neneper Differences: The Broken Home, the. fourth talk in this series about divorce in New Zealand, by Marie Griffin (NZBS) 9.456 THE SEVEN LAST WORDS (For details see 2YC) 11. 0 Close down Lee 9. 4am. For details until 5.15 see 4YA 5.15 p.m. Children’s Session: Junior Story Time; Children’s Choirs of the British sles 5.45 For details see 4YA 7.15 For details until 9.45 see 4YA 9. For details until 11,0 see 4YC 11 Close down @= ao a a nN ata O OO WO +9000 SaSa0

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ZB woe 200m 6. Oa.m. The Song of Easter 6.15 Morning Melodies 8. 0 Easter Choral Music 8.30 The Dolly Ballet Suite-Faure 9. 0 Songs of the South 9.30 We Travel the Friendly Road 10. 0 American Light Orchestras 10.30 Operatic Excerpts 11. 0 Today’s the Day: Eastertide 11.30 Grand Canyon Suite 12. 0 Midday Musicale 2. Op.m. Music from Spain 2.30 Carmen Cavallaro at the Piano 2.45 Erich Kunz Sings Viennese Songs 3.0 The Immortal Works of Ketelbey 3.30 Musical Comedy Stage 4.0 Canadian Impressions with Robert Farnon and his Orchestra 4.30 From the Films 5. 0 A Story for the Children 6.45 Pianist Semprini EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Frank Chacksfield’s Orchestra 2 ne Chorus Time The Biue Triangle, The Story of es Y.W.C.A, 8. 0 The Little Dry Thorn-A Biblical Drama, by Gordon Daviot 9.15 The Story of the Viscount, a Documentary on the World’s First Propellor tb ee Airline 10. Music in the Night 11 ‘30 Epilogue For Good Friday 12. 0 Close down XH 1310 a me m. 7. 0 a.m. Breakfast Session 9.30 Passion Music 40.0 The Open Road-John Charles Thomas 10.30 A Box at the Opera 411. 0 Holiday Harmony 412. 0 Luncheon Music

2.0 p.m. Folk Songs-Burl ives 2.30 Hamilton Civic Orchestra (conductor: M. De Rose) 3.30 Music from Vienna 4.30 Gilmour McConnell (piano) Suite Bergamasque Debussy (Studio) For Children 0 EVENING PROGRAMME American Light Orchestras 30 Music in View-New Discs 0 Life of Bliss (BBC) i The Little Dry Thorn-a Drama by Gordon Daviot .30 Chopin Waltzes 45 Written by Berlin 0. 0 Fun and Fancy 0 Epilogue 0 Close down SAO HNAD a AZA aie tem 6. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 9. 3 Around the Bandstand 9.30 Great Gettin’ Up Mornin’-The Voices of Walter Schumann 10. 0 A Strauss Concert 410.30 Morning Musicale-Larry Adler, Ronnie Hilton, Dinah Shore and Morton Gould’s Orchestra 411.30 Talkie Tunes-Frank Chacksfield’s Orchestra 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. Op.m. Raymonda Suite-Glazounov 2.33 Popular Choruses from Opera 3. 0 The Highland Jaunt (BBC)

3.30 People’s Opera House: The Story of Sadler’s Wells ; 4.30 Masters of the Keyboard 5. 0 Peter and the Wolf-Prokofieff 5.30 For Our Younger Listeners EVENING PROGRAMME 6.0 Easter vn te (6.45 Reginald K __ Kreister : 7. 0 For Only: Fred Waring’s | Pennsvivanians 7.30 Songs and Music from Operetta 8.0 The Little Dry Thorn-A Biblical Drama, by Gordon Daviot 9. 0 Warning to the Curious (BBC) 9.30 An Evening with Beatrice Lillie 40. 0 Lullaby of Broadway-Wolf Phillips and his Orchestra 10.30 Ciose down ! (clarinet) plays Fritz

2ZB we tn. 6. 0 a.m. Breakfast Session 9. 0 Eastertide 9.30 Songs of the People 10. O Stars of the Concert Hail 10.30 The Orchestra Plays 11.30 Music for Pleasure 12. 0 Luncheon Music 2. 0 p.m. The Worid Applauds 2.390 They Gave Us Melody 3.0 Voices Crying Out (BBC) 3.30 You May Not Have Heard These 4. 0 Box at the Ballet 4.30 Romance in Rhythm 65. 0 From Opera to Operetta 5.30 For Our Younger Listeners EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Dinner Music y A The Last Wilderness-a Picture of Dartmoor (BBC) 7.30 Connoisseurs’ Corner 8. 0 The Little Dry Thorn: A Biblical Drama, by Gordon Daviot 9. 0 Musical Rendezvous 9.39 Piano Highlights 10. 0 Song Fiesta 11. 0 Music for the End of Day 41.30 Epilogue for Good Friday 12. 0 Close down 27 PALMERSTON Nth. 940 ke. 319 m, 6. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 5. 3 Sacred Music for Good Friday 9.20 Music for the Nostalgic Traveller: George Melachrino Orchestra 10. 0 The Song of Easter: Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians 10.145 Compositions of Rudolf Friml played by the Composer 10.30 The Castilians 411. 0 About the Ninth Hour . . a Short Story by Des Swain 41.145 Piano Concerto No. 5 in E Flat Major (The Emperor) Beethoven 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. Op.m. Afternoon Concert: Featuring The Companions of Song, Robert Farnon’s Orchestra, Reginald Dixon (organist), Burt Ives and Eddie Calvert 3. 0 Thirty Minute Theatre: The Dance, by Hugh Walpole (BBC) 3.30 Popular Classics 4.20 Negro Spirituals: Todd Duncan (baritone) 4.40 Florian Zabach (violinist) and Laurindo Almeida (quitar) 5. 0 Highlights from Operetta 5.30 For the Children EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.30 Recent Releases 7.30 Songs of Stephen Foster: Roger Wagner Chorale 8. 0 The Little Dry Thorn-A Biblical Drama by Gordon Daviot . 0 George Greeley (pianist) 9.30 Thirty Minute Theatre: A Door Must be Kept Open or Shut, by Alfred de Mussett (BBC) 410. 0 Melodies from Opera 10.30 Close down

3Z ' CHRISTCHURCH 1100 ke. 273 m. 6. 0 am. Styled for Good Friday 8.80 9, 0 10. 0 11. 0 11.30 Children’s Choirs Music of Victor Herbert Treasury of Music Maicuzynski at the Piano Music for Holy Week 12. 0 Good Friday Luncheon 2.9 p.m. Matinee 3. 0 3.45 4.30 5. 0 5.30 6. 0 6.15 6.40 ner) 7. 0 8. 0 Paolo Spagnalo and Jussi Bjorling Operatic Highlights Ida Haend! (violinist) For the Children Musical Sketchbook EVENING PROGRAMME Roger Wagner Chorale The immortal Classics Hungarian Rhapsodies (Louis KentFever.Bark (BBC) The Little Dry Thorn-a Biblical Drama by Gordon Daviot 9. 0 9.30 10.30 11. 0 11.30 12. 0 Golden Miller (BBC) Concert Hour Music Populari Rourmaine Close of Day Epilogue for Good Friday Close down

ZB won me a.m. Breakfast Session The Song of Easter 9.30 Musical Album 10. 0 Music by Schubert 10.20 Grace Moore Sings 10.30 Eastertide 11. O Piano Portraits 11.15 Symphonic Suite: yo svee ater po Op. 35 Rimsky-Korsakov ofa 12. 0 Lunch Music 2.0 p.m. Frank Chacksfield plays Noel Coward 2.20 Famous Stars of French Cabaret 2.35 Waltzing to Jesse Crawford 3.0 Country of the Blind (BBC) 3.30 Favourites from the Classics 4. 0 Munn and Feiton’s Works Band 5. 0 Popular Parade EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Dinner Music 7.0 Thirty Minute Theatre: Mise Duveen, by Walter de la pare _ (eRe 7.30 For Your Listening Pleasu 8. 0 The Little Dry Thorn: A Drama, by Gordon Daviot 9. Jose Iturbi (piano) 9.15 Norman Luboff Choir 9.32 Richard Rodgers Showcase 10. 0 Hawaiian Holiday 10.15 Marches of the ‘Boston Promenade Orchestra 11.30 Epiloguesfor Good Friday 12. 0 Close down

TRE LITTLE DRY THORN, by the young English playwright, Gordon Daviot, is a dramatisation of one of the famous Biblical stories concerning Abraham and his wife Sarah, and their journey from the city of Ur into Syria, where Abraham was to find his destiny. "The Little Dry Thorn" will be broadcast from 1ZB, 2ZB, 3ZB, 4ZB, 1XH, 2ZA and 4ZA at 8.0 tonight.