BROADCASTING

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28159, 24 December 1956, Page 17

BROADCASTING

RADIO PROGRAMME 3YA, CHRISTCHURCH (690 Kilocycles) 7.30 p.m.: Play: It Won’t be a Stylish Marriage. 9.15: The Queen’s English. 9.30: The King in the Manger: The Pattern of Worship. Meditation and Incident for Christmas Eve. 10.0: Light Orchestral Sketches. 11.15: Christmas Eve Party. 11.45: Carols Round the World. 12.0: Anglican Service: Midnight Mass from St. Michael’s Church. 3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (960 Kilocycles) 7.30 p.m.: The Christmas Oratorio. 9.0: The Dessauer Quartet. 9.8: Leslie Atkinson (piano). 9.30: The Englishness of English Art: Constable and the Pursuit of Nature. 10.0: Margaret Ritchie (soprano) with George Malcolm (harpsichord). 10.16: Clifford Curzon (piano) with the London Symphony Orchestra. 10.43: The Eastman Symphonic Wind Ensemble. IYA, AUCKLAND (760 Kilocycles) 7.30 p.m.: Play. 9.30: The King in the Manger. 10.0: Ronnie Ronalde Entertains. 10.15: Joe Venuti. 10.30: The Melachrino Strings. 10.45: Hilde G.ueden. 11.20: Christmas Eve Concert. 12.0: Anglican Service. 2YA, WELLINGTON (570 Kilocycles) 7.30 p.m.: Play: It Won’t Be a Stylist Marriage, by A. P. Dearsley, adapted by Peggy Wells. 9.30: The King in the Manger. 10.0: Dance Music. 11.15: Combined Anglican Church Choirs. 11.45: In Quiet Mood. 12.0: Roman Catholic Service. 4YA, DUNEDIN (780 Kilocycles) 7.30 p.m.: Play. 9.30: The King in the Manger. 10.0: Carols for Christmas by the Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. 10.20: Ida Haendel (violin). 10.40: London Promenade Orchestra. 12.0: Midnight Mass.

CHRISTMAS DAY 3YA, CHRISTCHURCH 11.0 a.m.: Church of Christ Service: Moorhouse Avenue Church: Preacher: Rev. A. W. Grundy; Organist: V. Ellis; Choirmaster: Lester E. Scott. 7.10 p.m.: Piano Music by Australian Composers. 7.18: The Jacques String Orchestra. 7.30: Anglican Service: Christchurch Cathedral; Celebrating the Enthronement of the First Bishop of Christchurch, The Right Rev. H. J. C. Harper; Preacher: The Bishop of Christchurch; Organist and Choirmaster: C. Foster Browne. 8.35: Treasury of Belgian Folk Song. 8.51: Summer Days Suite. 9.15: Airways and Aircraft. 9.30: Christmas Round the World. 10.30: Masters of Melody.

3YC, CHRISTCHURCH 7.25 p.m.: The Boyd Neel String Orchestra. 7.41: New Zealand Verse. 8.30: Hodie, by Vaughan Williams. 9.30: The Philharmonia Orchestra. 10.5: Ralph Kirkpatrick (harpsichord). 10.29: Copenhagen Boys’ Choir. 10.50: London Philharmonic Orchestra.

IYA, AUCKLAND 7.30 p.m.: Alfredo Campoli. 7.45: Vincente Major (soprano) and Jean KirkBurnnand (piano). 8.30: Westminster Light Orchestra. 8.45: The Dilworth Boys’ Choir conducted by Arthur Reid. 9.15: Airways and Aircraft. 9.30: Christmas Around the World. 10.30: Freddie Gardner (saxophone). 10.45: Ray Martin’s Concert Orchestra.

2YA, WELLINGTON 7.30 p.m.: Journey into Space. 8.0: Won’t You Come? 8.30: The Britain that Nobody Knows. 8.45: Rae Gibbons (contralto). 9.15: Airways and Aircraft. 9.30: Christmas Round the World. 10.30: Songs for Christmas: Presented by the Harmony Serenaders and John Hoskins. 11.15: The Kingsway Promenade Orchestra. 11.35: Marcel Wittrisch. 11.50: Bill Snyder (piano). 12.0: Play. 12.22: Old Time Dance Music. 12.45: Voices in Harmony. 1.0: Featuring the Music of Mamie Reid and Edmundo Ros. 1.25: Jane Froman. 1.40: N.Z. Artists Entertain. 2.0: Voices Out of the Air. 3.0: A Christmas Message From Her Majesty the Queen. 4YA, DUNEDIN 7.20 p.m.: Jessie Jones and Jessie Flamank (two pianos). 7.40: Mary Pratt (contralto). 8.0: Won’t You Come In? 8.30: The V.A.D. Nurses’ Choir. 9.15: Airways and Aircraft. 9.30: Christmas Round the World. 10.30: The Goon Show.