Radio diary

Press, 25 January 1988, Page 19

Radio diary

Listeners can again share a little of Australia’s bicentennial celebrations on the Concert programme today at 9 p.m. Australian playwright John Blay’s provocative black comedy, “The Fleet," commissioned for the bicentennial by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, has the real First Fleet arriving instead of the expected reenactment. You will be looking at your eyes in a fresh light after hearing Your Amazing Eyes on National Radio just after 9.30 p.m. this evening. In this 8.8. C. production, Dr Trevor Lamb, of the physiological laboratory at Cambridge, talks about some of the

ingenious research into vision. Australia Day is marked on the Concert Programme tomorrow evening by two programmes: Celebrate — or Re-evaluate, at 8.30 p.m. and New Music from Australia, at 9.45 p.m. In the first programme, writer Thomas Kenneally looks at his country in the bicentennial year; the second features Australian entries in the 1986 Paris International Rostrum of Composers. Stuart Hoar’s “Rios Negros,” the second in a series of three plays about hitch-hikers, can be heard on National Radio at 9.05 p.m. on Wednesday. Jazzloving Beth has her life

changed when she meets punk Astral on a motorway one wet evening. Inspired by the Waikato River winding 425 km from Mount Ruapehu to the sea, composer Edwin Carr and writer Kirsty Cochrane wrote “Waikato Song,” to mark the opening last October of the Waikato Museum of Art and History. In the'premiere broadcast on the Concert Programme at 9.45 p.m. on Wednesday, soprano Jillian Anderton, mezzo Rachel Weston, the Hamilton Civic Choir and pianists Margaret Crawshaw and Josephine Fluhler can be heard. Guyon Wells conducts. — James Homes