Radio diary

Press, 1 February 1988, Page 17

Radio diary

When New Zealand was being settled by Europeans, there was already much Australian experience to draw on. How this country learned from Australia is discussed in New Zealand — the Lucky Country on the Concert Programme at 8 p.m. this evening. Professor Eric Olssen, in an Australian Bicentennial series, talks of the close links between the two countries.

As we head towards completely electronic communication systems, with all letters, orders, payments and confidential notes transmitted by electronic impulse, the problem arises of how these systems can be kept free of interference. In Unbreakable Codes, on National Radio at 9.35 p.m. this evening, two American cipher specialists, Len Adelman and Whit Diffie, talk about an ingenious solution they have found. New Zealand writer Janet Frame’s autobiography "Envoy from a Mirror City,” features in the round-up

in The World of Books on the Concert Programme at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Another autobiography reviewed in the programme is that of film-maker Michael Powell. Science fiction moves to the Antarctic in Ice on National Radio at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow. In this adventure by James Follett a massive section of the Antarctic ice-cap breaks free in an earthquake and starts drifting north. The danger is not realised until too late. This is the first of a threepart series from the 8.8. C. Soprano Lynne Cantion sings from the “Songs of the Auvergne,” arranged by Canteloube, in Auckland Philharmonia Prom Concert on the Concert Programme at 8 p.m. on Wednesday. The concert opens with Britten’s “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.” Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D minor is heard after the interval. Donald Johanos conducts the Auckland Philharmonia. — James