Viewers’ views

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32536, 20 February 1971, Page 4

Viewers’ views

Letters on television topics are subject to the rules applying to general correspondence.

MARCUS WELBY, M.D. I wish to goodness you, “Healthy Thank Goodness” and others who are against “Dr Welby” would leave him alone. Why don’t you be fair? If you don’t like him, do what I, and my friends, do, when a programme we do not like is on—switch it off. Believe me, T.V. is off quite a bit. But I enjoy Dr Welby and am not ashamed to say so. Having had to visit hospitals many times in the last three years it has made me realise that Dr Welbylike life is not so bad after all. So hands off, and may he return before very long.— NANA OF ASHBURTON. MARGOT FONTEYN I note that in “The Press,” the N.Z.B.C. was being congratulated on the time of showing the film on Margot Fonteyn last Sunday. I wonder how many more people were disappointed than were pleased? I for one had been looking forward to this, but consider how many would have chosen to stay in to watch television on such a hot day as last Sunday proved to be. Please, can there be a repeat of this programme, at a more suitable time?—BALLET FAN.

SATURDAY NATIONAL LINK

(Including SYA Christchurch (690 kilohertz); 2YA, Wellington (570 kilohertz); AYA Dunedin (750 kilohertz); and 3YZ Greymouth (920 kilohertz) 7.0 p.m.: Sports Review. 7.30: Words and Music. 8.0: Death Speaks Another Language. 8.30: Weather and News. 8.40: Looking at Ourselves. 8.50: Local Sports Results. 9.0: Those Were the Days. 9.30: Does the Team Think? 10.0: Sounds Great. 10.30: N.Z.B.C. News, Weather. 10.45: Cabaret Time. 11.0: 8.8. C. News and Commentary. 1.0 a.m.: Vic Hammett at the Tokoroa Wurlitzer Organ. 2.30: Light Music from the Netherlands. 3.3: Denis Gibbons. 4.9: Music of the Maori. 3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (950 kilohertz) 7.5 p.m.: Heather Taylor (soprano), Maurice Till (piano). Schuman: The Soldier’s Bride; Moonlight Messages; The Lotus Hower; Earliest green; Spring Night (N.Z.B.C). 7.24: Dale Hunter (clarinet); Bryan Sayer (piano); Brahms: Sonata No. I in F minor, Op. 120 (N.Z.8.C.). 7.45: Handel: Twoviolin Sonata in D minor, Op. 2 No. 3 Alice Harnoncourt and Walter Pfeiffer (violins), Herbert Tachezi (harpsichord). 8.0: N.Z.B.C. Symphony Orchestra Prom Concert. Conducted by Christopher Seaman. Larry Pruden: March: Lambton Quay;

Webern: Variations for orchestra; Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D. 9.0: Mozart: Requiem (K. 626) — Maria Stader (soprano), Hertha Toepper (alto), John von Kestern (tenor), Karl Christian Kohn (bass), Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra under Karl Richter. ,9.51: Exercises in Marxist Economic Theory. 10.10: Schubert: Trio in E flat (D. 929 Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Peter Guth (violin), Heidi Litschauer (cello). 3ZB, CHRISTCHURCH (1100 kilohertz) 7.2 p.m.: Trotting. 7.3; Party Night. 3ZM, CHRISTCHURCH (1400 kilohertz) 7.30 p.m.: Things are Swinging. 10.0: From the Top , Pops. SUNDAY i NATIONAL LINK , 11.0 a.m.: Morning Ser- i vice—St John’s Presbyterian : (Church, Greymouth. Prea-1 cher, The Rev. Neil Churcher., 7.0 p.m.: Evening ServiceDunedin Diocese Celebra- ] tions. Centennial Children’s Mass. (Recorded at the Dunedin Town Hall). Chief Celebrant, Cardinal McKeefry. Preacher, Bishop' De Cocq of Rarotonga.: Organist, Margaret Pinnington. Choirmaster, Brother Glenn. 8.0: Musical Minia- 1 tures. 8.30: Weather and News. 8.40: Point of View. 9.5: Die Fledennaus. Excerpts

from the Johann Strauss operetta. 9.30: Books of the Week. 10.0: Music Exchange. 10.15: From Vienna: Waltzes and Polkas. 10.39: N.Z.B.C. News, Weather. 10.49: The Epilogue for Quinquagesima. 12.6 a.m.: Records to Remember. 1.30: Hancock’s Half Hour. 3.3: As You Were. 4.9: Angels in Pigtails. 5.0: Early Morning Programme. 3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (960 kilohertz)

7.10 p.m.: Holland Festival: Haydn: Symphony No. 83 in G minor (Hen); Janacek: Lachian Dances; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14, Op. 135. Hanneke van Bork (soprano), Henk Smith (bass), Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra under Anton Kersjes. 8.43: Percy Grainger and his Music. 9.11: Alberto Ginastera: Piano Concerto (1961)—Joao Carlos Martins (piano), Boston Symphony Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorf. 9.34: Mozart: Divertimento No. 11 in D (K.251) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan. 10.0: The Key to Janet Frame. 12.24: Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, Act 3. 3ZB, CHRISTCHURCH (1100 kilohertz) 7.2 p.m.: Music Roundabout. 7.30: Hancock’s Half Hour. 8.0: Dick Van Dyke. 92: Joseph Vance. 10.15: The Cobblers. 11.50: The Epilogue. 3ZM, CHRISTCHURCH (1400 kilohertz) 6.0 p.m.: Top ’n’ Pop.