Radio diary
Reproducing early jazz recordings with the sound quality of a live performance has been the ambition of Australian Robert Parker. Using digital recording systems, he has remastered the best of jazz. In his series Jazz Classics in Stereo on the Concert Programme at 8.30 this evening early recordings of Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Jelly Roll Morton, and the styles of Chicago and the Cotton Club Stomp can be heard.
John Hurt, Sean Connery and Donald Pleasance are a trio of pimps — “names synomynous with quality whoring” — in “after the Funeral” on the Concert Programme at 9 this evening. This is the first play in an occasional series. Barnes’ People. Actors and actresses of great talent and distinction are in this 8.8. C. Thirty-Minute Theatre series of six short plays by leading British radio playwright Peter
Barnes. Geraldine James interprets the writings of Mary Kingsley in the first of a six-programme 8.8. C. series Explorers Extraordinary on the Concert Programme at 9 tomorrow evening. Mary Kingsley was a dutiful Victorian daughter, caring for her parents until they both died in 1892 when she was 30. Free, then, to lead her own life, she embarked on a series of. expeditions to West
Africa, paddling through swamps, travelling up the ■ Niger, and becoming the first white person seen in many regions. A woman • ahead of her time. Canon Paul Oestreicher, Director of International Ministry at Coventry ' Cathedral, came to New I Zealand this year to deliver the RNZ Shelley 1 Lecture. While in Welling--1 ton he recorded four public lectures at St new ’■ humanity by a process of detribalising our society.
His first lecture, "Ecumenism Re-examined,” can be heard on National Radio at 7.30 this evening. All Edward wants is a peaceful bath, but memories and people keep disturbing him, in “Under the Loofah Tree” on National Radio at 9 p.m. on Wednesday evening. Cyril Shaps and Kathleen Helme are in this delightful 8.8. C. play about a man who is king in his bath-water. — James Homes
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