Listening

Press, 6 April 1981, Page 15

Listening

Disturbed girl The problems -of coping with a mentally disturbed girl are depicted with humanity and insight by the English playwright. Olwyn Wymark (wife of the late Patrick Wymark. the actor), in her play "The Child.” Gemma is the deeply disturbed girl whom the household revolves around, requiring all the care and attention of her mother Nina, and mother's friend and companion. Lily. Old friends from school days, the two women share the full-time and emotionally exhausting task of protecting Gemma from herself. They do not always succeed. In this RNZ production by Gilbert Goldie, Gemma is played by Susan Wilson, her mother byJoanna Derrill and Lily by Davina Whitehouse. Concert radio. 8.20 tonight. ‘Active Archive’ Another series in which Brian Salkeld activates sounds and memories from the arts and sciences which have been preserved during a century of sound recording. Tonight’s programme on National at 8.00 features three distinguished actresses: Dame Edith Evans, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Dame Sybil Thorndike. Jazz trombone Bill Harris was a distinct ive jazz musician who established his reputation as trombone soloist with Woody Herman’s First Herd between 1944 and 1946. He later became a regular member of the “Jazz at the Philharmonic” touring unit and eventually retired to Florida before he died in 1973. His talent is presented on the National programme at 9.15 tonight.

Unemployment Patrick Craddock produced "Job Holocaust" for Radio New Zealand's Continuing Education unit. The topic of work in the 1980 s concentrates on redundancy, relocation and retraining. Today; National; 10.30 a.m. Women’s stress Last week in her Concert Programme series about stress the Auckland psychologist. Margit Brew, talked about stresses in our society as they affect men. This week she switches to stress and women, calling the talk “Women — An Incredible Number of Roles.” Manywomen are forced, or feel a need to achieve on two fronts. There is the home with its multiplicity of tasks, and also the workplace. The combined workload is too great. Concert, 7 p.m, Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky died 10 years ago today, "but it is 20 years since the great modern composer visited New Zealand to conduct the then National Orchestra. Both these occasions are marked by a broadcast , of material recorded during his visit to New Zealand, including the second half of a concert Stravinsky conducted in Wellington on November 18, 1961, and impressions of his visit recorded, at the time. Stravinsky with the NewZealand "National Orchestra conducts his own works — Apollon Musagete and the Lullaby and Finala from “The Firebird.”