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TO-DAY’S PROGRAMME.

- NEWS FROM LONDON Transmission One from Daventry (directed to Australia, New Zealand, . and Oceania), 6 p.m. to 10.15 p.m., G. 5.8., 31.55 metres (6 p.m. to 8.15 p.m.); G.S.D, 25.52 metres: G.S.G., 19.32 metres (8.30 p.m. to 10.15 p.m.); G. 5.1., 18.96 metres: G.S.P.. 19.60 metres. The New Zealand stations are on the air from 6 a.m for Daventry news, which is being broadcast at the following times; 6 a.m., news and news commentary (direct rebroadcast); 7 a.m., broadcast of recording taken at 6 a.m.; 8.45 a.m., news rebroadcast (direct); 12.15 p.m., recording of news received at 12 noon; 1.15 p.m., recording of news received at 1 p.m.; 6.15 p.m., news (direct rebroadcast); 9 p.m., New Zealand review of the day's news; 11 p.m.. news and topical talk. . 3YA, CHRISTCHURCH (720 Kilocycles) 7.30 p.m.: Geraldo and his Orchestra 7.39; “Parker of the Yard” 8.3: Milton Herth (Hammond organ). 8.13: George Titchener (comedian). 8.23: The Austral Trio in “Life is Nothing Without Music.” 8.52: Primo Scala’s Accordion Band. 8;58: Station notices. 9.0: Newsreel with Commentary. 9.25: Musical comedy memories; New Mayfair Theatre Orchestra. 9.31; Olive Groves and George Baker. 9.40: Allan Jones-(tenor). 9.46: Light Opera Company. 9.55: New Mayfair Theatre Orchestra. 10.1: Sports results. 10.15; "The Masters in Lighter Mood.” 3YL, CHRISTCHURCH (1200 Kilocycles) 8.0 p.m.: Symphonic Programme; Philadelphia Orchestra, 8.16; Orchestre du Conservatoire, Paris. 8.24: The Dresdener Choir. 8.27; Yehudi Menuhin (violin), with Orchestre du Conservatoire, Paris. 9.0: Lotte Lehmann (soprano). 9.7: Symphony Orchestra. IYA, AUCKLAND (650 Kilocycles) '' . 7.30 p.m.: London Symphony Orchestra, 7.43: Euterpe Trio (soprano, flute and piano). 8.3; Ida Haendel (violin). 8.11: Walter Brough (baritone). 823; New Light Symphony Orchestra. 8.32: Calypso Brook (piano) and Norah Rees (contralto). 8.44: Salon Orchestra, 8.50: Kentucky ■ Minstrels. 8.57: Station notices. 9.0; Newsreel with Commentary. 9.25: Variety: Jessie Matthews, Michael Moore and Patricia Rossborough. 10.0: Sports summary. 10.10: Dick ■Jurgens’ Orchestra. 2YA, WELLINGTON (570 Kilocycles)

7.45 p.m.: The Master Singers in melodious memories. 8.1: "Cloudy Weather." 8.26;, “The Little Show” - melody, harmony, comedy. 9.25; Oldtime dance music by Henry Rudolph’s Players. 10.0: Sports results.

4YA, DUNEDIN (790 Kilocycles) 7.30 p.m.: Light Orchestras and ballads. Light Symphony Orchestra. 7.38: LangWarth Foursome. 7.44: Hillingdon Orchestra. 7.50: Eddy Duchin (piano). 7.50; Regal Cinema Orchestra. 8.4: Bertha Rawlinson (contralto). 8,10; Ketelbeys Concert Orchestra. 8.30: Hubert Eisdel! (tenor). 8.39; Orchestre Raymonde 8.45: Bertha Rawlinson (contralto). 8.52: Paul, Whiteman's Orchestra. 8.58: Station notices. 9.0: Newsreel with Commentary. 9.25: Dance music. - 10.0: Sports summary.

SUNDAY 3YA. CHRISTCHURCH 8.15 p.m.: "In Quiet Mood,” 8.45; National Service session. 9.0: Newsreel with Commentary. 9.23: Station notices. 9.27-10.5: "The Sun and the Wind." 3VL, CHRISTCHURCH 8.30 p.m.; Favourite singers; Ninon Vallin. 8.45: Orchestral interlude. 9.0; The music of Britain. 9.30: “John Halifax, Gentleman.” IYA, AUCKLAND 8,25 p,m.: Studio recital by Eileen Ralph, English pianist, 8.45; National Service session. 9.0; Newsreel with Commentary. 9.25: Station notices. 9.28; St. Hilda Professional Band. 9.34; Black Dyke Mills Band. 9.40; Jeanette MacDonald (soprano). 9.46: Bickershaw Colliery Band. 9.25-10.0; H.M. Grenadier Guards Band. 2YA. WELLINGTON

8.5 p.m,: Andersen Tyrcr and the NBS String Orchestra. 8.45; National Service session. 8,0; Newsreel with Commentary.

EXCITEMENTS CHRISTMAS MURDER | Envious Cases. By Georgette Heyer. ■ Hoddcr and Stoughton. 320 pp—(B/3 net.) The death of Nathaniel Bernard . during the Christmas house party organised for him against his will by his enthusiastic and dependent brother Joseph was a foregone conclusion. He quarrelled with his nephew and affronted his fiancee, quarrelled with his actress niece and affronted her pet, struggling playwright instead of helping him, quarrelled with his business partner, and so on. Joseph’s placid, obtuse wife Maud is one of the jewels of characterisation in a witty book; but her inconsequent chatter about the life of Elizabeth of Austria,-first because she is reading it, then because she has lost it, holds the key to Misa Heyer's biggest dramatic surprise. TRACING MR SMITH Above Suspicion. By Helen Maclnnes. George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd. 243 pp. (8/9.) Also through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. Richard and Frances Myles spent a strange; last holiday in Europe. Carefully coached by their friend Peter Galt of the Secret Service, they were to work their way along the contact line —Paris. Nuremburg, Innsbruck, Pertisau—till they found “Mr Smith," an agent with whom communication had broken down, or found what had become of him. They found him, and freed him, perilously; but Frances blundered into a Nazi trap. . . . This story is charmingly written as well as very exciting. DRUMMOND’S BOMBS Secret Weapon. By Bernard Newman, Gollancz. 188 pp. (8/- net.) Strategist and statesman as well as inventor, Professor Drummond persuades the Prime Minister. Mr Worton Spender, to make him Minister of State, with full authority to direct the use of his new -and devastating explosive in bringing Germany to swift surrender. Newman brings off a grand hazard; Papa Pontivy is Drummond’s watchdog: everything is perfect, from the first thrill to the last. If only Drummond’s invention were / not Captain Newman’s invention! MRS BRADLEY PURSUES When Last I Died. By Gladys Mitchell. Michael Joseph. 208 pp. (8/- ’ . net.) Through. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. Investigating the story of some cleverly faked poltergeist phenomena, that gaudy, cackling old macaw,. Mrs Bradley, picks up the trail of a series of particularly callous murders and pursues it, cold and well covered as it is, with the fierce patience of an avenger. For whoever had plotted the deaths of two delinquent boys, a rich old woman, her nephew, and a niece, had worked with hateful, heartless calculation .... Mrs Bradley has rarely if ever done better. AT A GLANCE U.S.A. In Here Is America (Gollancz. 63 pp. 1/- net.) Miss Phyllis Bentley co- . herently sketches American history as a causal process which has issued in the economic, social, and political forces, ideas and ideals, institutions; ■ resources, and problems characteristic of the United States to-day. The publisher has a right to say, (‘Here, in small compass, is just what you want' to know,” Divining Rod Mr A. A. Cook, the author of Radial Detection (Angus and Robertson. 98 ; r~ pp. ‘3/6:), will 'not have the thing called - a ‘‘divining rod.” No matter; this book is a guide to the use of What evefy---f body' Calls by that name; and he calls ■ the “radial detector, f ’ for many purposes besides the location of subterranean water; and Mr Cook explains how and why it works. , What’ll I Say? V : ~ Messrs Whitcbnibe and Tombs i ‘baVß radded to their Simple Guide Series;*/' a handbook on Letters jind How to WWrite Them (54 pp. 1/8), which gives ; bothita»neratf advice and suitable models-for great variety of occasions. -T «_ ‘ . MAGAZINES ' The longest and most valuable contribution to the latest (winter, 1841) quarterly issue of the ‘‘Countryman" i is an editorial article, keyed to this sentence: “The future-of our rural life depends not only upon the reconstruction of our agricultural system but upon the reconstruction of rural;education,” which has failed, or not been allowed, to give the people “a gospel to live by.” The whole issue, as always, is packed with, profitable reading.'— J. W. Robertson Scott, Idbury, Kingham, Oxfordshire; 2/6.' . " The December issue of “Oceania” be- r • j gins the printing, of Mr R. H. Lester’s thesis, accepted by the. University;of; ' Sydney for the Diploma ♦' pology, on Kava Drinking in Vitilevu, , Fiji. Mr F. E. Williams completes hisseries of Papuan studies; Other contributors are Dorn Theodore Hernandez, 1 C. P. Mountford and Alison Harvey, and K. H. Thomas.—Australian National Research Council; 5/-.

In the “N.Z. Magazine” (Jan,-Feb., 1942) Mr Alan Mulganl contributes an • article on William Satchell to the use- . ful series on New Zealand writers, and “Peter Penn” reviews the Hon. W, Downie Stewart’s biography of William Rolleston. All contributions are short, crisp, and readable.—N.Z. Magazine Co., Wellington: 6d.

9.25; Station notices. 9,27-10.30: “The Marriage of Figaro.” 4YA, DUNEDIN 8.15 p.m.: Stokowski and Philadelphia Orchestra. 8.21: Alexander Cannichael (baritone). 8.30: Walter Gieseking (piano). 8,38: Beecham and London Philharmonic Orchestra. 8.45: National Service session. 9.0; Newsreel with Commentary. 9.25: Station notices, 9.27-10.12: “Music from the Theatre.”