TO-NIGHT’S RADIO PROGRAMMES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14861, 24 December 1948, Page 6

TO-NIGHT’S RADIO PROGRAMMES

3YA AUCKLAND 7.30 ■ Evening ■ Programme. The Lnndn Radio Orchestra. (BBC programme) T.,19 “Bcthlehe;n.” a choral drama hy Rutland Houghton, presented hy the HHt' Theatre Chorus and Orchestra with Marjorie Thomas (contralto). Elsie Suddaby (soprano) and Trevor Anthony (bass) , . , 9.3o..Ceremony of Candle Lighting, a dramatized Christmas story with the Lighted Tree illumined by the glow ot i many candles throughout the country side (from Meyers Park, Auckland) 10.0 “Much Binding in the Marsh (LHC programme.) 10.30 Music. Mirth and Melody 11.20 An Unusual Musical by Al Satinu and his Hot Dogs 11.50 Quiet Interlude. l-j.O Midnight Mass. St, Patrick’s Cathedral. Preacher; His Lordship Bishop Liston. Organist: Lenora Owsley. Choirmaster; Oeorge o’Cnrman.

, BYA WELLINGTON 7. 0 Feilding Stock Market Report. 7.15 Talk: “Gold and Frankincense and Myrrh,’’ the origin of rhe gifts described by Robert H. Noil. 7..‘>0 Evening Programme. Christmas Carols from all Countries, by Robert Shaw and his Victor Chorale. 8, 0 Radio Theatre: “Kings in Judea.” from Dorothy L. Sayers’ series “The Man Born to be King.” (BBC production) 9.20 Provincial Letter. 9,30 Bandstand: Music for the Bandsman. 10.0 Rhythm on Record: “Turntable.” 11.15 Carols by Candlelight : Y.W.C.A. Service (from Newtown Park.) 12.0 Midnight Mass (from St. Gerard's Redemptorist. Church).

2YZ NAPIER 7. 0 For (he sportsman. 7.15 After dinner music. 7.30 Evening Programme. For the bandsman. 8. 0 Boston Promenade Orchestra, with Interludes by the baritone John Charles Thomas. 8.30 Merry Go Round (BBC programme) 0.30 “Strange Destiny” 10.0 Supper Music 10.30 “Carols by Candlelight”: Combined Choirs of Napier and Hastings (From tiie Botanical Gardens)

t• . 3YA CHRISTCHURCH 7.15 “The Humour of Christmas.” a special broadcast written by Emily Baizeen. 7.30 Evening: Programme: The London Philharmonic Orchestra. 7.43 The Don Cossacks’ Choir 7.47 Frank Hutchens and Lindley Evans v (duo pianists) 7.50 Georges Thill (tenor) 7.54 E. Power Biggs (organ) 8. 0 Welcome Yule: The songs and Legends of Europe, by Myra Thomson (soprano) with Bessie Pollard (pianist) 8.15 Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Stokowski 830 “This Christmas; A perennial problem:” What people in different walks of life have to say about it. (NZBS Production) . , „ ■ !) 30 Koval Christchurch Musical Society ■ • anil Gladys Vincent (violin) conducted by C. Foster Browne 0.50 “Home Thoughts: ,J Music and verse recalling an earlv N.Z. Christmas Eve 30.30 “Itma” (BBC Transcription) 11. 0 London News 11.15 Christmas party with Music for Dancing 12. 0 Midnight Prayer: Rev. L. IT. Jenkins, Principal 'N.Z. Baptist College. 12.5 a.m. Midnight Mass; St. Michael’s Church. Preacher; The Most Reverend the Lord Archbishop of N.Z. Dr C. W. West-Watson. Organist and choirmaster: Clifton Cook

4YA DUNEDIN 7. 0 Sports News 7.30 Evening Programme: “Itma” (BBC « Production) 8. 0 “Melody Cruise:’’ Dick Colvin and liis Music (Final broadcast for 1048) (A Studio Presentation) 8.20 “Dad and Dave’’ 8.44 The Golden Gate Quartet 0.33 “Phil the Fluter” (BBC Production) 0.53 “The, Montague Pendant,” one of the Man from Hatton Garden stories about' famous jewels. (BBC production) 30.13 j.conv Goodman hud his Sextette 30.30 Dance Music 10.40 Organ Reveries 10,50 “To Bethlehem,” a Christmas fantasia written by Anna Kirkwood with ..choruses by the Coventry Singers dii\ciea oy George Wilkinson. (A Studio Presentation) 31. 0 London News 11.20 Christmas Eve Service conducted by Prof, G. Knight (From the Concert Clvamber) , .