Today's Radio Programmes

Northern Advocate, 10 December 1940, Page 9

Today's Radio Programmes

IYA AUCKLAND (650ke.)„

5.0 p.m: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.15: News from London and topical talk. 6.55: Dominion and District Weather reports. 7.0: Local news service. 7.10: Gardening talk. 7.30: Evening Programme.— London Piano-Accordion Band, “AH Ashore,” “Any Broken Hearts to Mend?” 7.38: “One Good Dead a Day.” 7.51: Geraldo and his orchestra, “Top Hat.” 8.0: Mae Questal (light vocal), “Oh! My Goodness.” 8.3: “Evergreens of Jazz.” 8.16: Grade Fields and her family, “Grade at Home.” 8.24: “The First Great Churchill.” 8.49: “A Tea-Time Concert Party.” 8.57: Dominion and district weather reports and station notices. 9.0: NBS newsreel. 9.15: BBC news commentary. 9.25:' Tino Rossi (tenor), “Love’s Last Word is Spoken, Cherie,” “Isle of Capri.” 9.30: Dance music. 11.0: News from London, followed by meditation music.

2YA WELLINGTON (570kc.L . 7.15 p.m: Britain Speaks. 7;30: Reserved 7.45; Evening Programme Music by Massenet: The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, from “Scenes P.ittoresque.” 7.52: Charles Rousseliere (tenor). 8.0: A concert by the NBS String ’Orchestra.; soloist, Lawrence A. North, —The Orchestra, “Jour de Fetes,” the Christmas Singers (Glazounov)’, Glorification (Liadoff), Russian Communal Dance (Rimsky-Korsakov). 8.15: Lawrence A. North, songs by Schubert: “My Resting Place,” “Wandering,” “The Lindeh Tree.’” ' #.26r The -.Orchestra, Serenade (Tchaikovski). 8.57: Wea-

ther reports and station notices. 9.0: NBS newsreel. 9.15: BBC news commentary. 9.25: Yvonne Webbjones (soprano), in an operatic recital. 9.35: Benno Moiseiwitch (pianist) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (Rachmaninoff). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0:. News from London, followed by meditation music.

3YA CHRISTCHURCH (720 kc.)

7.15: Book review. 7.30: Evening Programme. —Dajos Bela Orchestra, “The Bird Catcher” (Zeller). 7.38: “Dad and Dave from Snake Gully.” 7.51: From the studio, the Rhythmic Quintet presents current favourites. 8.14: “A Gentleman Rider." 8.28: In-terlude-by the Ray Heatherton Orchestra, ‘ 8.42: “The Buccaneers of the Pirate Ship Vulture.” 8.57: Weatherreports and station notices. 9.0: NBS newsreel. 9.15: BBC news commentary. 9.25 Musical comedy memories. 10.0: Jan Savitt and his orchestra. 11.0: News from London, followed by meditation music. 4YA DUNEDIN (790kc.L 7.30 p.m: Variety. 8.0: Programme by the Dunedin Highland Pipe Band, with interludes by Kathleen Roddy (soprano), the Maste’rsingers, and Kenneth Macrae (tenor). 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: NBS newsreel. 9.15: BBC news commentary. 9.28: “Coronets of England —The Life of Henry VIII.” 9.54: “Do You Know Why?” by Autolycus. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: News-from London,’'fdlloWed by meditation music.

The dock fire lit up the sky to a bright red. It -was terrifying.

Night Said

There was no sound except the roar of German planes hastening towards the flames like flies to a jampot, and the frequent boomp of bombs.

The scene was reminiscent of the burning of Pompeii. Watching, Mr Sidwell felt that if London got through that early bombardment it could get through anything. With the barrage improvement, the enemy planes could not get through to London and dropped their bombs on the outskirts.

BornWs dropping near did not terrify the people, who felt that a bomb 50 yards away might just as well have been a mile away. “This is the sort of thing those fools of Germans are doing, to people like me.

“I was always liberal in my 1 judgment of the German case, heard dispassionately. But now I have no second opinion, other than that the only good German is a dead one,” Mr Sidwell continued. v) Wanton Destruction. "They have destroyed buildings, damaged Westminster Abbey, damaged the British Museum —what does it matter —but they have spattered people on walls, have' left chaos and suffering among families, have dismembered women and children—and that sort of thing is unforgivable.

“It has aroused such a hate that I shudder to think what is going to happen when it is all over.” As: a raid warden he dressed in flannels, two sweaters and a thick sports jacket to keep out the cold. 4 Wardens were on duty from alarm to all clear—B p.m. to 6 a.m. usually. Heavy gum boots, a tin hat, respirator and torch completed the equipment. In his district, enemy planes usually arrived quickly after the alarm. Warden’s Experience “It is not too good riding about with A.A. shrapnel dropping around one,” Mr. Sidwell remarked. “Actually later on in the night one doesn't worry but at the start there’s always that ‘touch.' ” He had spoken to a young Home Guard who had had his entire garden demolished by an exploding German land mine. On another occasion the warden's post was informed. ‘of a time bomb falling'in the territory, the informant saying he had heard the “ticking.” This suggested riot a time, bomb but a land mine.

Detailed to investigate, Mr. Sidwell said the sensation was far from pleasant until he discovered that the missile was ah ordinary large bomb, the “licking” originating from a piece of fence wire broken by the impact of the bomb.