BROADCASTING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 246, 29 July 1937, Page 7

BROADCASTING

TO-NIGHT’S PROGRAMMES.

The wireless programmes to be broadcast to-night are:-

IYA AUCKLAND (650 k)

7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Talk, “Marine Life of the Sea Shore,” Mr A. W. Powell. 7.45 : Talk “This Changing World (21): Change in Medicine,” MrF. L. Armitage. 8.0: Grand Charity Concert, proceeds in aid of tho Mayor’s Relief Fund, introducing the Budapest String Quartet: Joseph Reismann, Alexander Schneider, Boris Koyt, Misclia 'Schneider (relayed from the Auckland Town Hall). Quartet in B Elat Major, Op. 12 (Mendelssohn). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Mary Pratt (New Zealand contralto), “The Stormy Morning” ; “The Raven” ; “My Dwelling Place” (Schubert). 9.20: The Budapest String Quartet, Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 (Beethoven). 10.0: An hour with Billy Cotton and his Band. 11.0: Close down.

2YA, WELLINGTON (526m—570k.) 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Time signals. “Who’s Who and What’s What?” A new ramble in the news by “Coranto.” 7.40: Talk, Our Book Reviewer, “Books Grave and Gay.” 8.0: Recordings,- Alfredo and his Orchestra “Serenade in the Night” (Kennedy). 8.5: “Pink Insteps,” being a further episode in the lives of a Japanese liouseboy and his employer. 8.19: Reginald Dixon (organ), “Dixon Hits,” No. 2. 8.25: Mrs Adele Edmonds (mezzosoprano), “O, Western Wind” (Brahe); “The Call of the Pipes” (Murray); “Down Here” (Brahe). 8.36: Recording Roy Smeck and his Serenaders, “When the Poppies Bloom Again” (Towers). 8.40: Talk, “The Eye-Witness (1): The Klondyke Gold Rush.” Speaker: Mr J. Malton Murray. 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: The Wellington Girls’ Choir (accompanist: Madam Evelyn de Mauny): Two-part songs, “Greeting”; “I Would That My Love” (Mendelssohn). 9.15: Bessie Pollard (pianist), ‘Miniature Pastorale (Frank Bridge); “Merry Andrew” (Ireland). 9.21: Girls’ Choir, two-part songs, “O’er the Distant Hills” (Markham, Lee). Boy’s Choir: Unison songs, “Who Is Sylvia?”; “Hark! Hark! the Lark” (Schubert). Combined Choirs: Unison song with descant, “Brother James” Air (Jacob) 4 9.31: Bessie Pollard (pianist),, “Mediterranean” (Bax); “Tho Old Musical Box” (Goossens); Prelude in D (Delius). 9.37: Girls’ Choir, part songs, “Fairy Boat” (Harris); “Go, Lovely Rose” (Lee). Boys’ Choir, Unison song, “Vesper Hymn” (Ma9e). Combined Choirs: Round, “Cuckoo” (French folk song). 9.46: Cedric Sharpe Ipextet (instrumental), Serenade (Elgar). 9.49: Boys’ Choir, unison song, “Cherry Ripe” (Horn). Girls’ Choir, Part song, “Pokarekare Ana” (Traditional). Combined Choirs: Unison song “Nymphs and Shepherds” (Purcell). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.

3YA, CHRISTCHURCH (416m—720k.)

7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Time signal. 8.0: Recording Vienna Schrammel Quartet, “Firefly’s Appointment” (Siede). 8.5: Bernard Lee, Richard Littledale, Katherine Hynes, Joan Garside, and Roland Caswell! “Ten-Minute Alibi” (Armstrong). An impression of the play. 8.14: Cherniavsky Trio. “La Serenata” (Braga). 8.17: Jack Hobbs, Lewis Casson, Jane Comfort, and Sybil Thorndyke, “To Meet the King” (Stevens). A play in one act 8.26: Edith Lorand Trio, Melody in F (Rubinstein) 8.30; Shakespearean recital by Sir Johnston Forbes-Rohertson. 8.45: Vienna Schrammel Quartet, Serenade (Heykens). 8.48: Lionello Cecil, operatic tenor, with 3YA Orchestra, conducted by Gil Dech (a) “A Furtive Tear” (Donizetti); (b) “Questa o Quella” (Verdi); (c> “Caro Mio Ben” (Giordani); (d) “Libiamo Nelieti Calici” (Drinking song) (Verdi). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: An interview with an American expert on Contract Bridge: Mr J. Gordon Allard. 9.20: Dance music. 11.0: Close down.

4YA, DUNEDIN (790 kilocycles). jM

7.0 : News and reports. 7.30: Gardening talk. 8.0: London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beocham, “PArlesienne” Suite, No, 1. (Bizet). 8.18: Lotte Lehmann (soprano), “The Fortune Teller” “Voices of the Wood” (Schumann); “Take Thou My Greetings’’ (Schubert). 8.28: Orchestra, conducted by 'Sir Hamilton Harty, “Romeo’s Reverie and Fete of Capulets” (Berlioz). 8.40: Talk by Mr J. I. Craig, Financial Secretary to the Minister of Finance, Government of Egypt “Off the Beaten Track in Egypt.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.13: Raoul Gillies (tenor), “Ave Maria—Chant Lithurgique” (Gounod); “Peasant Love Song” (Champfleury). 9.20: “Masterpieces of Music,” with tliematio illustrations by Dr. V. E. Galway, Dunedin City organist, and lecturer in music at the University of Otago. Concerto in E Miribr, Op. 64 (Mendelssohn) Played by Joseph Szigeti and the London Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Thomas Beccham. 10.0: Music, mirth, and melody. 11.0: Close down.