Radio diary

Press, 21 August 1989, Page 11

Radio diary

By JAMES HOMES Polytechnic journalism students are going to air every day this week with Air Witness, Plains FM 4.40 p.m today and tomorrow and 4.30 p.m. from Wednesday, a 30minute news round-up and current affairs. Lively, different. Try not to miss John Williams in Recital, Concert Programme 7 this evening. Listen to this top guitarist play Telemann, Roncalli, Scarlatti and Albeniz. Good after-dinner listening. Hitler’s rise to power might be seen as an historical aberration to many today, but he and the Nazis took Germany on a crusade of hatred and plunged the world into war. Dr Christopher Andrew inHitler’s Leap to Power, National Radio 8.05 tomorrow evening, tells how Hitler, who was not even a German citizen a year before, became

Chancellor of Germany in 1933.

The Beginner’s Guide to Gobal Destruction, National Radio 8.05 Wednesday evening, tell show refrigerators, cars and aerosol sprays could bring about Armageddon by the middle of next century. All about killing a planet and about people trying to call halt. This should shake you out of your fireside complacency.

England saw Civil War and many other political and social upheavals in the first half of the seventeenth century, but, at the same time, there was a reovlution in musical taste. Victoria University’s Peter Walls talks about English music and how this was influenced by French and Italian music in Music in England 1603-1649, Concert Programme 9 Wednesday evening. The first of four programmes.