Greetings:
My health is failing and if there is anyone in the South Island who feels they could take over my studio and resources, please let me or Oamaru Heritage Radio know. (Emails are ohr at mail.com or ohr at xtra.co.nz respectively). I work from a satellite studio, not the main studio in Itchen Street, and it is relatively simple to transfer the equipment to another site.
Whoever takes over will have to meet the standards expected by Oamaru Heritage Radio Trust.
You may have noticed a shift during the last 3 months. At 6pm we were to be listening to Beyond Our Ken, but I considered the quality of the recordings to be below standard, so I abandoned this programme and inserted Round the Horne here instead. It contains the same gang of misfits..
And in sorting through a ton and a half of 78rpm records looking for TANZA and other New Zealand pressings that a friend is collecting, I came across alot of discs that I considered should be given some air time.
So recently I've started the first 90 minutes of my programme with records spinning at 78rpm. Many of the tunes that get played have probably never been played on radio for the last 70 or 80 years. You are hearing them for what is likely to be the first and only time this century that they are given an airing.
Here's what's coming up. The 6 o'clock slot will be given over to a 50s science-fiction programme from the BBC. Charles Chiltern wrote and produced "Journey Into Space". I think that in this country we heard only the first 12 episodes (if that), but there are more than 50 in all.
After the Samuel Pepys readings finish the book is about Scott and Amundsen's race to the south pole. I hope you find it interesting.

Regular programmes (Every Tuesday at around the same time) are:

4.00 90 mins at 78 revs: A motley collection of 78 rpm records located in the store-room, brought out for an airing.

6.00 BBC serial: Journey into Space, by Charles Chilton. (50 episodes).

6.30 An item from the archives of wireless, - a recent item or something a lot older.

8.15 A cassette from the collection of the Silver Fern Tape Recording Club, recorded by Club members for members.

Specific programmes on a week by week basis:

Tues 12^th November

5.30 An Item For Younger Ears: Story, Wild Mustang, by Lynn Hall

7.30 Concert Piece: Strauss, Czardas; Borodin, Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)

9.00 Book reading: Claire Tomalin, (read by Jill Balcon), Pepys - The Unequalled Self Pt 8 of 16

Tues 19^th November

5.30 An Item For Younger Ears: Story, The Harmonica Man, by Hans Zander

7.30 Concert Piece: Offenbach, The Tales Of Hoffman (Abridged) Part One

9.00 Book reading:Claire Tomalin, (read by Jill Balcon), Pepys - The Unequalled Self Pt 9 of 16

Tues 26^th November

5.30 An Item For Younger Ears: Story, The Ugly Duckling, by Hans Andersen

7.30 Concert Piece: Offenbach, The Tales Of Hoffman (Abridged) Part Two

9.00 Book reading: Claire Tomalin, (read by Jill Balcon), Pepys - The Unequalled Self Pt 10 of 16

Tues 3^rd December

5.30 An Item For Younger Ears: Four songs by Vera Lynn

7.30 Concert Piece: Lerner and Loewe, Camelot (Film sound track)

9.00 Book reading: Claire Tomalin, (read by Jill Balcon), Pepys - The Unequalled Self Pt 11 of 16

Tues 10^th December

5.30 An Item For Younger Ears: Story, Babes In Toyland

7.30 Concert Piece: various, Famous oratorio choruses

9.00 Book reading: Claire Tomalin, (read by Jill Balcon), Pepys - The Unequalled Self Pt 12 of 16

Tues 17th December

5.30 An Item For Younger Ears: Hans Anderson, The Red Shoes with music by Handel, Bach, Offenbach

7.30 Concert Piece: Menotti, Amahl and the Night Visitors Pt One

9.00 Book reading: Claire Tomalin, (read by Jill Balcon), Pepys - The Unequalled Self Pt 13 of 16

Tues 24th December

5.30 An Item For Younger Ears: Hans Christian Anderson, The Snow Queen, read by Sigourney Weaver

7.30 Concert Piece: Menotti, Amahl and the Night Visitors Pt Two

9.00 Book reading: Claire Tomalin, (read by Jill Balcon), Pepys - The Unequalled Self Pt 14 of 16s

Tues 31^st December

5.30 An Item For Younger Ears: Story, The Magic Fish, , performed by Alan Mills, Music by Arthur Rubinstein EP

7.30 Concert Piece: various; The Magic Flute Of James Galway Lp

9.00 Book reading: Claire Tomalin, (read by Jill Balcon), Pepys - The Unequalled Self Pt 15 of 16 Cas

AT THE TIME OF WRITING THIS, IT IS QUITE LIKELY THAT I WILL CONTINUE INTO THE NEW YEAR WITH A PROGRAMME OF DANCE AND PARTY MUSIC. OR MAYBE ONE OF THE OTHER PRENTERS MAY TAKE OVER AND BRING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH YOU.

Tues 7^th January

5.30 An Item For Younger Ears: Instruction in music, The Piano and its Relatives

7.30 Concert Piece: Mozart, Oboe Concerto in C major, K314

9.00 Book reading: Claire Tomalin, (read by Jill Balcon), Pepys - The Unequalled Self Pt 16 FINAL of 16

Tues 14^th January

5.30 An Item For Younger Ears: Yehudi Menuhin, Instruments of the Orchestra, Strings

7.30 Concert Piece: Britten, A Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra, Concert Arts Symphony Orch

9.00 Book reading: Scott & Amundsen; Their Race to the Pole by Roland Huntford. Part 1 of 18

Tues 21st January

5.30 An Item For Younger Ears: Song, Over The Meadow, sung by Marvin Hayes

7.30 Concert Piece: Beethoven, Emperor Piano Concerto, No 5 in E flat, Op 73

9.00 Book reading: Scott & Amundsen; Their Race to the Pole by Roland Huntford. Part 2 of 18

Tues 28^th January

5.30 An Item For Younger Ears: Instruction in music, The Life of Beethoven with Robert Helpmann

7.30 Concert Piece: Chopin, Polonaises played by Artur Rubinstein

9.00 Book reading: Scott & Amundsen; Their Race to the Pole by Roland Huntford. Part 3 of 18

Tues 4^th February

5.30 An Item For Younger Ears: Danny Kaye tells the story in song of The Magic Toyshop

7.30 Concert Piece: Rossini, Four works for orchestra

9.00 Book reading: Scott & Amundsen; Their Race to the Pole by Roland Huntford. Part 4 of 18