Starting out right?

Press, 22 September 1980, Page 14

Starting out right?

Listening

Starting school is an important milestone in ' a child’s life and one that concerns many parents. They worry about how their child will settle into school. What will the teachers expect? Will she find friends to play with? Will he like the teacher? Will my child have trouble learning to read? Should I get a job or stay at home? These are just some of the questions parents, especially mothers, ask themselves at this time. In “Getting Off to a Good Start at School”, a series of five programmes which will be broadcast on the morning National programme throughout the week, teachers, educationalists, parents and children talk about these important questions and share experiences. The first in this series entitled “Laying the .Foundations” looks at the place of some form of pre-school education. National programme, 9.40 a.m.

Sound curios "Active Archive” has been described as a curiosity shop of sound recordings. This series of 13 programmes is made up of recordings from

Radio New Zealand’s archives department and from personal recordings collected by Brian Salkeld, who compiled “Active Archive”. This week’s programme includes recordings by the organist, Gfeorge Thalben-Ball, playing the Alexandra Palace Organ and a song from the great English contralto, Muriel Brunskill, who recently died at the age of 81. National programme, 8 p.m. Written history An anthology of New Zealand prose and poetry through the years since early European settlement is being presented in a 13-part series. Themes and excerpts which display the different facets of our way of life have been chosen by Dora Somerville. Tonight’s programme, “Cities, Towns and Outrage”, was produced by Fiona Kidman and Fergus Dick. Concert programme, 8.25 p.m.

Dvorak A.new release of the Dvorak Svmphonv No. 8 in G. Opus 'BB can be heard tonight It is a Chicago Symphony : recording with Carlo Maria Giulini conducting. Concert programme, 8.52 p.m. Tokyo jazz In “Change of Pace” tonight on the National programme Ray Harris turns the clock back to 1953 with recollections of the first jazz concert to be staged in Tokyo. It was given at the Philharmonic by a group of “all-star” jazzmen who did many American and international tours towards the end of the 1940 s and through most of the fifties. Participating in the 1953 tour to Tokyo were famous names including Benny Carter, Charlie Shavers, Roy Eldridge, Flip Phillips, Willie Smith, Oscar Peterson, and Ella Fitzgerald. National programme, 9.15 p.m.

Gruelling diary Tonight on the National programme, the British actress. Eva Haddon, will read the first of eight readings of “The Diary of Anne Frank”. The setting is Amsterdam and the date is June 12, 1942. It is Anne’s thirteenth birthday and her favourite present is a diary which wasgiven to her by her parents. Three weeks later Anne and the rest of the Frank family have taken refuge in “the secret annex” the sealed-off back rooms of an Amsterdam office building. For two years Anne recorded in her diary. ■ which she called “Kitty”, a detailed account of their life in hiding until their eventual discovery by the Gestapo and the Dutch Nazis. Although Anne and her sister died in the Belsen concentration camp shortly before the arrival of the Allied Liberating Army, the diary survived the war. Since, it has been adapted into novel form. The BBC have produced the version of this story that begins on the National Programme ■ tonight: