Re: [Swprograms] Matinee Idle

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

That figures: you will not find any sign of Matinee Idle on the current RNZI program grid at http://www.rnzi.com/pages/schedules.php nor any single program it replaces, including ``Radio National``, which merely means relaying whatever is on the domestic network, but instead if on from 2335 to 0300 replaces lots of different stuff including RNZI produxions. 

But if you check the programme website as below, you find that at least on Jan 1, the Classic Concert was an hour earlier at 02-03 UT, interrupting the entire M.I. show which runs until 0400, and a complete playlist is presented, along with linx to some audio excerpts, including Chatham Islands being half a sesquihour ahead of the mainland (?), in getting into a new day and a new year. Should you axually wish to listen to this on SW, all but the first minute of the entire show are on 15720: 2236-0458 15720 AM 17675 DRM Pacific Daily
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)


> 
> It's summer in the Southern Hemisphere, ABC in Australia
> and Radio New
> Zealand National have many summer shows running.
> 
> Perhaps my favourite of these is Matinee Idle. It appeals
> to my
> twisted sense of humour.
> 
> "Phil O'Brien and Simon Morris present an afternoon of
> music and
> entertainment, including a Classic Concert.
> 
> "'Matinee Idle is Radio New Zealand's Mufti Day. They let
> me and Simon
> "loose in the asylum". We get to be the guys testing the
> outer limits
> of listener patience and we benignly abuse this privilege.'
> says
> O'Brien. 'They let us play whatever we want! It's every
> radio
> presenter's dream.'"
> 
> http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/matineeidle
> 
> Here in North America the program, because of the time
> difference can
> be heard at 6:35 pm EST or 2335 UTC, the day before, since
> NZ is 18
> hrs ahead of us. Sunday to Thursday nights here in North
> America.
> 
> Where else can you hear Hooked on Yodelling and Harlem
> Shuffle in the
> same program?
> 
> Also note that Matinee Idle is followed by a "Classic
> Concert" at 10pm
> EST, 0300 UTC. These are top notch productions. I stumbled
> onto
> Matinee Idle a couple years ago while anticipating a
> particularly
> amazing Louis Armstrong concert.
> 
> Fred Waterer
> 
> To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish
> you the best
> of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering. - Clive
> Cussler
> 
> http://www.doghousecharlie.com



      
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