Radio diary

Press, 13 April 1989, Page 11

Radio diary

Presenter Cecile Murphy, of Christchurch Polytechnic Special Programmes Department, goes to air this evening, on Plains FM at 6.30 p.m., in the first of a series intending to show Access trainees are not no-hopers who never find jobs. Her guest, Frank Crothall, is chairperson of the Canterbury Regional Educational Access Council. Murphy, whose department runs some Access courses, will also talk

about upcoming courses and job placement. Beethoven recorded his stormy life in some 1500 letters and notes. John Caird, of the Royal Shakespeare Company, links some of these to extracts from the string quartets to give a portrait of the composer in Kingdom of the Spirit, on thp Concert Programme at 9.10 this evening. Actor Derek Jacobi reads the letters; music is by the Medici String Quartet. The Melos

Quartet of Stuttgart plays Beethoven’s Great Fugue in B Flat, Opus 133, in an interlude between the readings. Not to be missed. Art Farmer’s Quintet plays Billy Strayhorn compositions in Jazz Scene, on National Radio at 9.05 p.m. tomorrow. There are offerings, too, by guitarist Tom Tedesco, Helen Merrill and Don Menza with the Louis Bellson Quartet. James Homes