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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMES. : STA. OHRISTOHURCH , - '- 1 . 1980 Kilocycles.) 12 noon: Lunch hour music. 2 p.rii.s .", Gramophone recital. 4.50: Sport* result!.. » 5.0: Children's hour. 6.0: Dinner music session ; (Parlophone). 7.0: News and re-, ports. 8.0: Chimes. Overture —Ketelbey *' Concert Orchestra, ''A Dream of Christmas , (Ketelbey). Programme by Christchnreh. Harmonic Society (Conductor, Mr V. C. Peters). Accompanists: Miss Blanche Atkinson. 8,8: Carols —Harmonic Society, (a) •'Welcome Yule" (Parry); (b) "Ring Out, Wild Bells" (Fletcher). 8.16: Instrumental trio—Mr Stephen Elsom, Misses Dorcas Blsosy and Nancy Hume, (a.) "Intermezzo"; (p) "L'Arlesienne Suite 11, No. 2." 8.20: Carol—Harmonic Society, "I ,&w Three Ships" (Stainer). 8.24: Cqntralto—Miss Nancy Bowden and Chorus, "O Thou That Tellest." 8.31: Piano —Miss Blanche/ Atkinson. "Noel" (Balfour Gardiner). 8.34: Carol—Harmonic Society, "A • Legend (Tschaikowski). 8.40: Band—H.M. Irish Guards Band, "Christmas Medley" (Ashton). 8.46: Tenor-rMr Jas. Shaw, (a) "Comfort Ye"; (b) ''Every Valley." Carols—Harmonic Society, (a) "Coventry Carol (J-o-J. (b) "I Sing the Birth" (Elgar). 8.57. Organ—Archer Gibson, "The Old Refrain (arr. Kreisler). 9.1: Weather forecast an* station notices. 9.3: Duet—Misses Joyce Wilkinson and-Brenda Bannehr, "A Christmai Legend" (Buck). 9.7: Violin—Mr Stephen Elsom, (a) "Air for G String" (Bach), (b) "Le Oygne" (Saint-Saens).- »."• . Carols—Harmonic Society, (a) ' Good King Wencelas" (Trdtl.); (b) * "Remember, O Thou Man" (Long). 9.19: Instrumental tt\« —Mr Stephen Elsom, Misses Dorcas Elsom and Nancy Hume, "Three Fours,_ Op. 71, No. 6" (Coleridge-Taylor). 9.23: SopranoMiss Eveline Hill, "With Verdure Clad (Haydn). Choral—Harmonic Society, Pw™ 148" (Hoist). 9.33: Dance music by Baiiey Marston Dance Orchestra. SZO, CHRISTOHTJBCH. 10-11.30. a.m.: The home-maker's, session, conducted by Miss Millkent Jennings. * •'London" morning. A greeting to liondoners, by a Londoner; recipes: Pease puddisf, C-elsea buns, omnibus P™»du«; r CocknsT recitation, "The Obstructive Hat," Mrs Clair* Priddv (from London); short reading. Faces in the Strand" (H. V. Morton); two-part song from the atudio, "Old Grey Town. 12 noon-2 p.m.: News and music. »-«•»?; Afternoon concert on short wave. Orchestral recorded items. 8-9.30: Studio concert by "The Pickwickian* : Misses Irene Agassis and Rene Hyde, Messrs. v. James (bass), J. North (baritone), Spici* (humour), James Laurenson (Dickens recitations), Paine and Bell (banjoisW. c f e 1 »" a Thompson (accordion and mouth-organ). «*g. Stevens (humorous songs). 9.30-11: Dance music. 2YA. vrmaxsGrTOV (720 Kilocycles.) 10 a.m.: Chimes. Selected e ra f,°? h j,? n iJ?i " cordings. 11.37: Lecturette— "Hollywood Affairs." 12 noon: Lunch hour music. 2 p.m.: Selected recordings. 3.15. J*"L Miss Ruth Hay. "Correct Carnage «*» *» portment." 8.30 and-4.30: Sporting results. 5.0: Children's hour, conducted «£*"?* Daisy. 6.0: Dinner music session (Polydorj. .7.0: Naws. market reports and sports re Biilts. 7.40: Lccturette— Mr L«n Greenbirg. "What Shall We do With 0« Boysl 8.0 r Chimes. Specially recorded ntotntUowH programme. Dr. Eugene Ormandy and «■" SaloTorchesrrs. The* Mirth Quaker.. Inter national talk—Pr. Guy H. Scbolefield, 0.8.r.. Stardust. Forget-me-not.

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