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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1931, Page 13

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TO-DAY’S PROGRAMMES NEW ZEALAND STATIONS•IYA Auckland. Afternoon session: 12, lunch music; 2, selected recordings; 3.15, literary selection; 4.30, sports results; 5, children’s hour; 6, dinner music; 7, news and markpt reports; 7.30, Rev. W. G. Monckton, M.A., ‘‘Some International Problems —-India Part 2.” Evening session: 8, specially recorded international programme. 2YA Wellington. Morning session: 10, selected recordings; 11.12, lecturette, “Fabrics and Fashions”; 12, lunch music. Afternoon session: 2, educational; 3, selected recordings; 3.30 and 4.30, sporting results; '5, children’s hour; 6, dinner music; 7, news, reports and sports results; 7.40, lecturette by a representative of the Agricultural Department, “For the Man on the Land.” ■Evening session: 8, Overture, Berlin State Opera House Orchestra; quartet, Melodie Four; bass, Mr. W. W. Marshall; selection, 2YA 'Salon Orchestra; 8.22, special dramatisation of Charles Dickens’ story, “A Christmas Carol.” Scene I—The office of Scrooge and Marley. Time —Christmas Eve. Scene 2— The home of Scrooge. Time, Midnight. The dream —The Coming of Marley’s .Ghost. Scene 3—The office of Scrooge and Marley. Christmas Eve. The Carol Singers, the chimes and incidental music by the orchestra. Cast of characters (as they will be heard): Bob Cratchit (clerk to Scrooge), Mr. B. Cahill; Mr. Middlemark, Mr. John 'Storr; Scrooge (the miser), Mr. Clement May; Fred (his nephew), Mr. Cedric Muir; the ghost of Marley ( a former partner of Scrooge), Mr. 'Errol Muir. Visionary characters—■Scrooge'(as a boy), Audrey May ; Fanny (his sister), Eileen 'Bass; Scrooge’s Sweetheart, Miss Leonore Pulsford; Mr. Worthington, Mr. W. McKeon; Peter (a boy), Robert Chyne; Scrooge’s niece, Miss Dorothy Miller; Martha (Bob Cratchit’s daughter), Miss Esse Gill; Tiny Tim, Irene Nelson; Mrs. Cratchit, Madge Thomas; Belinda, Evelyn Godsmith. fi.2, weather report and station notices; instrumental, 2/A Salon Orchestra; tenor, Mr? Sam Duncan; quartet, Melodie Four; organ, Reginald Foort; tenor, Mr. Frank Bryant; quartet, Melodie Four; selection, 2YA Salon Orchestra; baritone, Mr. R. S. Allwright; instrumental, 2YA Salon Orchestra; 10, God Save the King. 3YA Christchurch. Afternoon session: 12, lunch music; 2, gramophone recital; 4.50, sports results; 5, children’s hour; 6, dinner music; 7, news and reports; 7.30, Addington stock market reports. Evening session: 8, Overture, Berlin State Opera Orchestra; mezzo-soprano, Miss Sylvia Marshall; cornet, Mr. R. Ohlson; bass-baritone, Mr. Donald McCulloch; piano, Miss Maisie Ottey; humorous monologue, Stanley Holloway; instrumental trio, The Melody Trio; contralto, Miss Myra Sutton; violin, Miss N. Middleton; choral medley, Light Opera Company; concertina duets, Theo and Francis Gunther; weather forecast and station notices; selection. H.M. Grenadier Guards Band; mezzo-sovrano.