Radio Diary . . .

Press, 2 April 1987, Page 23

Radio Diary . . .

Johnny Checketts has some exciting tales to tell. The New Zealand flying ace was shot down over occupied France in 1943. On the George Balani Show on the R.N.Z. Commercial Network from nine this evening he will tell how he avoided capture on that occasion and regale us with other stirring anecdotes about World War 11.

Still with war, the Robin Harrison Show (3ZB) will view the Vietnam War from a New Zealand perspective in an extended session tomorrow (10 to 11.30 a.m.).

New Zealanders who were involved in a number of ways in that war will be in the studio. As the show will also include excerpts from the soundtrack of the film, “Pla-

toon,” it could bp a busy morning for the deleter of four-letter words.

If pop music of the late 60s to the late 70s is your cup of tea, Radio Avon is the station to be tuned to this week-end. Regular programmes will be missing, washed aside by a flood of songs from that era, some of which you will remember, some half-remember, and some of which stayed so briefly that you may have no recollection of them.

The nostalgia trip starts at 6 p.m. on Friday and continues till 7 p.m. on Sunday, and interspersed with the music will be interviews with some of the performers. The 8.8. C. programme, “Your World” (Concert, today 7.45 p.m.), looks at

disinformation, a polite word for media manipulation, the spreading of stories by Governments in ah attempt to get the public to share their prejudices.

It becomes embarrassing when perpetrators get caught, as the United States Government did last year, when journalists

discovered too late that the stories they had reported about another imminent bombing of Libya had been false.

In this programme, Hodding Carter, a distinguished American journalist, arid Philip Knightly, of the London newspaper, “The Independent,” discuss the issue. Over the next few weeks, the Concert Programme is featuring the

first six Beethoven string quartets in the Opus 18 group in a compact disc release by the Melos Quartet, of Stuttgart. The first programme, at noon bn Saturday, features the String Quartet No. 1 in F. After 15 years with a Saturday morning slot, the “Spectrum” documentary moves to a new time of Sunday at 9.20 a.m., with a repeat on Tuesdays at 8.5 p.m. The first programme at the new time looks in on the action at the Auckland Western Districts Fast Draw Club. “Composer of the Week”: Frederic Chopin; Concert Programme, 10.5 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. on Sunday and 9.5 a.m. from Monday to Friday.

—John Hickey.