The People On Your Screen (1)

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32208, 29 January 1970, Page 3

The People On Your Screen (1)

BILL SOUTHGATE has been with the N.Z.B.C. for nine years, joining the service when television was beginning, and telecasts limited to about two hours a night. He was born in Christchurch and educated at St Andrew’s College, and when still in his teens went to Australia. He met a radio announcer who suggested he should have an audition. It was successful, and he began with the New England network in New South Wales. On his return he joined the N.Z.B.C. but at that stage had no particular interest in television work. After some time in Christ church, he spent three years on radio in New Plymouth, returning to CHTV3 last February. One of his interests is vintage cars, and he has a Riley Kestrel which he has been re-building, in leisure hours, for the last two years. He is also extremely interested in cricket, and watches whenever he can. He was 'in England in 1965 and followed the New Zealand team there that season to a considerable extent Be cause of his varied working hours he cannot play cricket to his regret but manages occasional Sunday matches with the N.Z.B.C. team. It is not he says, especially serious cricket But the broken hours are ideal for golf, and he plays, on a 16 handicap, at Russley. He is 29 years old. is married, and has a 14-months-old daughter, Victoria Jane. Asked what were his most embarrassing or memorable moments on television, he recalled an evening when he was the news reader. Just before he began, the floor manager told him to start on item two. Within the second, he was in viewer’s view, riffling over his papers and if he found it a difficult moment so did his director, whose duty it is to follow the reader’s script and roll in the film sequences in the news—the director has to wind in the film eight seconds before the announcer fades from view. . . . But one of the most demand-

ing moments any announcer could suffer came when he was news reading and caught sight, in the corner of his eye, of a woman member of the staff making minor but intimate adjustments to her wearing apparel. Half-way through the news he had great difficulty in suppressing his laughter, an awkward moment made none the less difficult when the girl realised what she had done and herself collapsed in a mixture of laughter and embarrassment

In A Few Words...

His interview with Prince Charles at the beginning of the year was a broadcasting scoop. “I’ve never been so nervous in my life,” he admits. But the Prince immediately put him at his ease when he arrived at Buckingham Palace by saying: “Did you have any. trouble finding the place?”—Sunday Express, London'.

CHTV3 2.00 p.m.: Headline News. 2.03: The Andy Williams Show (guests Tennessee Ford, Connie Francis, Roger Williams) musical—(repeat). 2.54: The Mothers-In-Law—“Everybody Wants to be a Writer.” 3.18: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea—“ Blow Up”— (repeat). 4.07: Keep Fit. 4.12: Winter in Poland (winter sports). 4.30: Play School—entertainment for children. 4.54: The Magic Roundabout 4.59: Rocket Robin Hood—first of new cartoon series. 5.17: Sinbad Junior. 5.22: Dan (final). 5.35: The Beverly Hillbillies—“ Social Climbers”— comedy. 6.02: Headline News, Weather. 6.04: Maya—“ The Demon of Kalenemi”—adventure. 6.57: Coronation Street 7.30: Weather. 7.33: News. 7.57: Ironside (guest star, Broderick Crawford)—“ln Search of an Artist.” 8.52: Once More With Felix (guests John Bird, The Corries, Archie Fisher)—music. 9.27: Seven Deadly Virtues—“A Pain in the Nick”— sixth of seven plays on the subject of virtue. 10.24: Heritage of Apollo—science from the Greeks to moon landings. 10.52: Late News, Weather.

NATIONAL LINK (Including 3YA, Christchurch (690 Kilocycles); 2YA, Wellington (570 Kilocycles): 4YA, Dunedin (780 Kilocycles); and 3YZ. Greymouth (920 Kilocycles).] 7.0 p.m.: In the News. 7.20: Sports Review. 7.45: In Your Garden This W-ek. 8.0: The Wilfrid Thomas Show (7) Back to the Basques. 8.30: Onslow Brass Band, Bandmaster, Nonnan Goffin. Overture: Napoleon (Bilton); Little Suite for brass (Arnold); Tenor Hom Solo: Air varie— Silver Threads Among the Gold (Allison); (Soloist, lan Gladstone), Symphonic Poem: Coriolanus (Jankins). 3YZ, West Coast Top Ten. 9.0: Weather and News. Checkpoint: 9.30: The Archers. 3YZ, 9.30 Interpol Confidential. 10.0: Variety Stage. 10.30: Cabaret Time, Mike Durney. 10.45: Fritz Schulz-Reichel and his Bristol Bar Sextet. 11.20: All Night Programme. 12.0: Pick of the Goons (repeat). 1.0 a.m.: Melody Time from Germany. 4.9: Folkways. 3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (960 kilocycles)

7.0 p.m.: London Symphony Orchestra under Antal Dorati Overture (Auric). 7.10: Henryk Szeryng (violin) London Symphony Orchestra under Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 (Prokofiev). 7.36: Baden-Baden Wind Quintet, in E flat (Franz Anton Ros-

etti). 7.45: Beryl Dailey (soprano), Oswald Cheesman (piano), Ah, lovely eyes, His Coming, It was the rose. For Somebody, For Music, My love is a flower, I wander (Robert Franz). 8.0: Prom Concert, N.Z.B.C. Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Clyde Roller. Dance Overture (Paul Creston); Symphony No. 5 in B flat (Schubert); Symphonic Variations (Franck); (Moreland Kortkamp Roller, piano). Interval. Evening Prayer (Hansel and Gretel) (Humperdinck); Soirees Musicales (Rossini-Britten); Rumanian Phapsody No. 1 in A (Enesco). (From Dunedin Town Hall). 10.0: The Effects of Earthquakes on Structures. 10.21: Anna Maria Vallin (soprano), Wanda Madonna (alto), Coro Polifonico, Milan, Angelicum Orchestra under Umberto Cattini, Magnificat in B flat (Sammartini). 10.47: English Chamber Orchestra under Raymond Leppard, Symphony No. 5 in B minor (J. C. Bach). 3ZB, CHRISTCHURCH (1100 kilocycles) 7.2 p.m.: New Zealand Top Ten. 8.0: World Records on the Air. 9.32: Theatre Five. 10.2: Looking Back. 3ZM, CHRISTCHURCH (1400 kilocycles) 7.0 p.m.: Jazz Tones. 8.0: Peter Sellers. 9.0: Brothers Four. 9.30: Cat Stevens. 10.0: From the Hot 100.