RADIO PROGRAMME

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1931, Page 8

RADIO PROGRAMME

(Supplied by the Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z. Ltd.)

THURSDAY, APRIL 2nd

Tii e home science talk from IYA 2YA and 3YA this afternoon will hi a. “Talk about Kitchens.”

Bert Kingsland’s Saxophone Quartet will be appearing before IYA micro phone this evening in several special ly selected items. Mr Cyril Towsej will be heard in two pianoforte solos and Mr aTfct Mrs ,J. W. Bailey will give two more of their popular short sketches. Outstanding items on the programme will be Mr C. C. Purdy, siffleur, a very line artist. Vocal items will be given by Miss Phyllis James (contralto) already well known to IYA listeners, and Mr Eric Gilmore a young tenor who is making his lirst appeal mice before the microphone as a soloist.

The Wellington Artillery Rand, under Captain T. Herd, Y'.D., will provide a studio programme from 24 A. The band items will be of a diversified nature, including besides marches, the Scottish rhapsody “Lord of the Isles,” the Indian “Aislui” and u selection from “11 'lrovatore” (witn anvil effect). The vocal portion ol the programme will be of special interest. The W'ainta Quartet, I.ompiisiag ladies voictn, will be heard in several concerted numbers, one of them being the melodious “Carry Me B ; U k to Old Virginity.” The vocalists will be: Miss Lalla Vonderslout, Alms AJollie Fenton, Miss Nora Gray, Mrs R. Ramsay, Mr Samuel Hall (teuor) and Mr E. H. Jones (bass). An operatic-classical programme ot a popular nature will lie presented by BY A. 'file vocalists will be the Grand Opera Quartet. Two ’cello solos will be provided by Mr Harold Beck, and trios by Handel, Dvorak and TscluUkowski, will be played by the Christchurch Broadcasting Trio. Included in 3YAV> programme will be a lectu rotte by Air Te Ari pitania on “Maori tlanguage- and Pronunciation.” Silent day at -IVA.

All stations will be broadcasting special divine services to be held in fhe churches on Good Friday. In the evening there will be dinner music sessions and studio concerts in keeping with the day.

There will be special broadcasts from all stations 011 Good Friday. From noon, IYA will relay the Threi Hour Service to he held in St. Mnt.thew’s Church. At 7.30 the servid in the Pitt Street Methodist Church will be broadcast. At 3 p.lll. the ceremony of “The Stations of tile Cross” will be relayed from SL Gerard’s Redemptorist Church by 2YA. The. Rev’. Father Cullen, C.S.S.R. will be the preacher, At 7 p.m. from St. Thomas’ Anglican Church, Wellington South, the sacred cantata, “The Crucifixion,” by the combined choirs of St. Thomas’s and All Saints’ Churches will be broadcast. A combined church service, to Ire. held under the auspices of the Ministers’ Association will he broadcast by 3YA at, 11 a.m. The Rev. J. Lawson Robinson will be the preacher. In the evening at 7.JH Bach’s “St. Matthew’s Passion,” to be presented in the Christchurch Aug. lican Cathedral by the full choir undei the direction of Dr J. C. Bradshaw will he relayed. At 10.30 a.m. 4YA will relay a service to he held under the auspices of the Council of Christian congregations. At 8 o’clock there will be a 4YA studio entertainment. SATURDAY, APRIL 4th. This evening IYA will relay from the Town Hall the concert to be given b.v the Municipal Iniiul under the direction of Captain George Buckley. 'The solSists for the evening are .Miss Nellie. Lingard (contralto), Master Desmond Casey (boy soprano), Mr Hal. McLennan (flautist) and Mr F. Bowes (cornetist). Contributing to 2YA’s w«ek-ond programme will be the Melodic Four, Mrs Mildred Kenny’s Guitar Trio, Mr A. Guild (bagpipes), Mr Stanley Chapman (’cello) and the Salon Orchestra. The entertainment will be on t! of much variety on both the vocal and instrumental side. A twenty minutes’ sketch, “The Hot Tip” (being the third of the series of experiences of “Vi and Jo”) will be presented by The Mascots, two very popular entertainers at SYA. Also on the programme will be Miss Elaine Moody’s Hawaiian Quartet with steel guitars and ukelele, Mr A J. W. Hodder and the Studio Octet under Mr Harold Bock. This programme will be relayed to 4YA. The church services to he broadcast to-morrow will be ; ]YA. St. David’s Presbyterian Church. 2YA. —Terrace Congregational Church Preacher, Rev. H. W. Newell. 3YA.—Christchurch Anglican Cathedral. Preacher, Bishop West Wetson.

4YA. Methodist Central Mission Preacher, Rev. G. T 3. Hinton.