ABC weekly / Australian Broadcasting Commission

Call Number
N 059.44 AUS
Created/Published
Sydney : ABC, 1939-1959
Issue
Vol. 2 No. 22 (1 June 1940)
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Contents

THE ABC WEEKLY 1
Advertising 2
The Editor Speaks 3
Scholar Who Spent his Life Looking for a Bible 4
ASK AND ASK – and be answered 4
War nurses Enjoy an ABC Quiz 5
The Old Ways are Best 6 , 7
LOOKING FOR LOST SHIPS 8
Bairnsfather’s Old Bill 9
PICKED UP ON THE AIR 10
High Adventure From a 15s. Camera 11
How to Construct A Simple Windmill 12
How The Dutch Got Their East Indies 13
Advertising 14
WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW This Way Southward 14
New Explosive Fails To Convince 15
THE Cruise Of The RAIDER "WOLF" THE "WAIRUNA'S" INTERRUPTED VOYAGE 16 , 57 , 58
The ABC Weekly Radio Review and PROGRAMME SECTION 17
BEECHAM’S PROGRAMMES 18
OUR COVER PICTURE GLADYS MONCRIEFF’S TOUR 18
IGNAZ FRIEDMAN’S TOUR BEGINS JUNE 22 FRIEDMAN’S ITINERARY 18
“A.I.F. AT SEA” RECORDS FOR SATURDAY NIGHTS 19
POLITICAL IMMATURITY 19
THIS WEEK’S PUBLIC CONCERTS 19
Gordon Ireland Digs Up Some More Buried Treasure 20
Listeners’ Play Competition Begins On Sunday 21
Plays of the Air— CATHERINE SHEPHERD 21
Stars Form Queer Team 22
HOBBIES SESSION STARTS AGAIN WITH BOATS, LOOMS AND GAMES 23
Advertising 23
What's On The air 24 , 25
Advertising 25
DOROTHY HELMRICH IN BRISBANE, JUNE 3 26
B.B.C. OBSERVER FOR MIDDLE-EAST 26
MURDER ON THE SECOND FLOOR 26
IS THERE ANY INTERNATIONAL MORALITY? 27
WINGS OF THE EMPIRE 27
“Chestnut Tree” Variations—First Sydney Performance 27
Advertising 28
Gladys Moncrieff's Accompanist 28
LIONELLO CECIL Associate Artist With Gladys Moncrieff 28
Highlights of The Week 29
SUNDAY—June 2 30 , 31 , 32 , 33
Australian Short Wave 33
Talks by Beatrice Grimshaw 33
MONDAY-June 3 34 , 35 , 36 , 37
AUSTRALIAN SHORT WAVE 37
The New China 37
TUESDAY-June 4 38 , 39 , 40 , 41
AUSTRALIAN SHORT WAVE 41
Advertising 41
Everyone His Own Water Baby 41
WEDNESDAY—June 5 42 , 43 , 44
Australian Short Wave 44
THURSDAY-June 6 45 , 46 , 47 , 48
AUSTRALIAN SHORT WAVE 48
SHORT WAVE NOTES 48 , 56
Starch and Porridge 48
BOYS’ HISTORY 48
FRIDAY—June 7 49 , 50 , 51
AUSTRALIAN SHORT WAVE 51
SATURDAY—June 8 52 , 53 , 54
AUSTRALIAN SHORT WAVE 54
Sweeney Todd—the Demon Barber of Fleet Street 54
Music of France 54
Neville Cardus, music critic 54
Eligabeth's PAGE FOR THE CHILDREN 55
PETS' CORNER 55
Laugh of The Week 55
NATIONAL CHILDREN’S SESSIONS 55
FIRST-NIGHT FANS 56
Newstests 59 , 60 , 61
WORLD WAGS 62
MR. TUTT Bulldozed 62
Greetings From Lady Stonehaven VIVID MEMORIES OF AUSTRALIA 63
LONDON SNAPSHOTS THE KING AND THE AUTOGRAPH HUNTER 63
VICEROY SARAH CHURCHILL’S FORBEAR WHO WAS UNOFFICIAL QUEEN OF ENGLAND 64
Henry Lawson’s Mother 64
In The Isle Of Kangaroos 65
NO OTHER SCHOOL LIKE IT WHERE CHINESE BECOME AUSTRALIANS 66
THE SPOKEN WORD 66
A Letter from Home 67
JIM DONALD’S PAGE Few Can Challenge Jawbreakers Of Ancient Greece 68
RACING HOW TO PECK THEM WHEN THEY’RE ON THE BEILS 69
I'll Bet you! 69
Other People's Letters War-time tasks 70
In No Woman’s Land 70
Jim Davidson’s Band 70
Appreciation 70
Golden silence 70
England, my England 70
Marie Corelli. 70
THE WATCHMAN AND LIBERTY 70
NATURE STUDY No. 27 70
Advertising 71 , 72

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