RADIO NOTES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 18, 31 May 1939, Page 3

RADIO NOTES

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31. IYA: 12.0 Auckland Trotting Club's meeting; 8.0 Cortot, piano, Thibaud violin and Casals, cello. First ancl third movement from Trio :n B Flat (Beethoven); 8.2(» Mafalda, Salvatini, soprano; 8.34 Lois Walls, vialo; 8.46 James Leigh ton, baritone; 9.0 Weather; 9.5 Coronets of England: The Life of Charles 11, the Merry Monarch: 9.4t A BBC recorded presentation: ''The Old Coiitemptibles" (part 1) —the record of the British Expeditionary Foree frum Mons to Ypres, between August and 1914; 10.0 Music, mirth and melody. 2YA: 8.0 Ilosario Bourdon Symphony orchestra four compositions of Eric Coates; 8.13 Julia Bradley, contralto; 8.18 Rosario Bourdon Sy.na phony; 8.29 Julia Bradley, contralto-, 8.35 Symphony Orchestra; 8.40 Talk, Dr Guy H. Scholefield, World Affairs; 9.0 Weather: 9.5 Singapore Spy 9.32 Thrills; 9.45 Personal Column; 10.0 Dance programme. 3YA: 8.0 Readings by Mr O. L. Simmance, with music; 8.35 Povla Frijsh > soprano; 8.40 Dorothy Da vies New Zealand pianist. Variations in F Major (Beethoven): 9.0 Weather; 9.5 BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Silkin Ladder overture (Rossini) 9.13 Vladimir Rosing, tenor; 9.17 Berlin State Opera Orchestra; 10.0 Music, mirth and melody. 4YA: 8.0 Dunedin Choral Society presents the First Concert of the 1939 season, assisted by 4YA Concert Orchestra; 8.42 Talk by Sir Thomas Wilford, "Personalities I Have Met''; 9.0 Weather; 9.5 Westward Ho; 9.1? Thrills; 9.37 The Life of Einilc Zola: 10.0 Ozzie Nelson and Will Osborne entertain. An hour of modern dance music. THURSDAY, JUNE 1. IYA: 12.30 Service from St Mat. thew's Anglican Church; 8.0 Westward Ho; 8.15 Wandering with the West Wind; 8.45 The Fourth Form at St Percy's; 9.0 Weather; 9.5 Talk } "The Ancient World and Modern Archaelogy (1): Life and Business in the City of Abraham, "> Mr Blaiklock; 9.20 Studio recital by the Band of the Ist Battalion Auckland Regiment: 9.30 Dad and Dave from Snake Gully; 9.4,3 Cornet duet f with band accompaniment; 9.51 Barbara Maurel, mezzo_soprano "Flow gently, Sweet Afton"; 9.54 Ba-nd; 10.0 Casa Loma entertains. An hour of modern dance music. 2YA: 8.0 Carroll Gibbons and his Boy Friends, "Carefree" Film Selection; S'.S The Rich Uncle from Fiji; 5.20 Ivor Moreton and Dave Kayc. n'nnos; 8.26 The Comedy Harmon"rts: 8.32 International Novertv orchestra; 8.40 Just a job of Work bv i Deej) Sea Diver; 9.0 Weather; 9.;) The Schola Cantorum present "Donna Nobis Pacem" soprano and baritone solos with chorus and orchestra; 9.15 The Boyd Neel String Orchestra; 10.0 music mirth and'melody.

3YA: 8.0 The Woman in White: 8.14 .F'red Hartley and his Novaity Quintet; 8.17 Night Nurse; 8.30 Fieel Hartley and his Quintet; 8.33 Thrill-; 8.45 Novelty Quintet; 9.0 Weather; 9.5 Reserved: 9.20 Dance music; 9.30 Talk, Mr Leghorn, "Modern Ballroom Dancing": 10.0 Dance music. 4YA: 8.0 Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra Rosel Simen. Auer, soprano, Heinrich Schlusnus Bronislaw Hubrrman violin; 8.10 Rosel Simenaucr; 8.19 Orchestra; 8.35 Man Through the Ages: Magna Charta; 9.0 Weather; t).5 Bronislaw Hubermann, violinist, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; 9.29 Heinrich Schlusnus baritone: 9.39 Music from the Theatre: "Memories of the Ballet"'—"Good Humoured Ladies' to the music of Scarlatti; ,10,0 Music, mirth and melody, ACCURACY IN BOMBING Accurate bombing could not be guaranteed from any height because of the human element said Wing Commander G. S. Hodson, Officer Commanding the Wigram Air Training School, speaking to members of the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association at i'heir monthly luncheon. II had been found, though, that bombing from 1(5,000 to 20000 feet \yas j sufficiently accurate to cause extensive damage, although there could be no certainty at such a height of I'it- | ting a particular object , lie added, j in reply to a question about the e(fi_ | cicncy of the balloon barrage in London, that he understood the balloons' rose to a height of about: 20,000 feel.