Radio diary

Press, 15 September 1988, Page 13

Radio diary

Jean and . Richard, on National Radio at 8.37 tomorrow evening, is an unusual play about two pioneer New Zealand aviators, Jean Batten and Richard Pearse. Both were eccentric, enigmatic and obsessed with flying, but while one achieved international fame, the other was known to relatively few. Playwright Mervyn Thompson was commissioned to write this play for radio. The result is interesting and thought-provoking. Manifesto, on Plains

FM at 6.45 tomorrow evening looks at art from a worker’s perspective. There is music, poetry, street theatre and news, about Workers’ Art club projects. Listen to MJQ magic in Jazz Scene, on National Radio at 9.05 tomorrow evening — Modern Jazz Quartet recordings released on compact disc, recalling the 1960 Atlantic album “Pyramid,” with the quartet’s second recording of “Django” and their original treatment of the well-known standard “How High the Moon.”

Rosemary Clooney, on the Concord Jazz label, can also be heard. Direct from Dunedin on Saturday evening is the Australia Ensemble in Concert, on the Concert Programme at 8. This innovative ensemble, originating from the University of New South Wales, already has several successful overseas tours behind it. On Saturday evening they play Mozart’s Flute Quartet in C (K2Bsb), and the Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor, Opus 114. Simulcast opera is back on the Concert Pro-

gramme and TV Two on Sunday afternoon at 12.50, with Die Fledermaus, the first of a season of four operas. Kiri Te Kanawa is Rosalinda, and Hermann Prey is Eisenstein. Tenor Placido Domingo takes up the baton in this Covent Garden production to conduct the Royal Opera House chorus and Orchestra. Turn the sound off on your television and put your stereo speakers one on each side of the screen. Relax and enjoy Johann Strauss’s champagne music. James Homes