RADIO PROGRAMME

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1931, Page 8

RADIO PROGRAMME

(Supplied by the Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z. Ltd.) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER *3oth. A particularly interesting entertainment has been arranged by tHe IYA Broadcasting Choir, assisted by the Salon Orchestra and “Lee Fore Brace,” for this evening. It will be a special sea programme. In the first half will be orchestral music and songs relative to the sea. Mr Newling, baritone, will smg “A Hundred Fathoms Deep’’ and “The Skipper.” Miss Joyce Hould and members of the IYA Choir will present a sketch. The second half of the programme will be in charge of “Lee Fore Brace.’’ As t,h'e master of a sailing ship he will take listeners for a trip from the Thames as he knew it forty years ago. Beside the master there will be a bo’sun, the Ship’s boy, and a crew of sailors who will sing appropriate sea shanties. The lecturer during the Internationa] Programme at 2YA this evening, will be Dr Guy H. Scholefield. The Edgeware Road Methodist Church Choir Concert Party, assisted by the 3YA Studio Octet, will be heard on the air this evening. This Choir won the | championship at the recent Christchurch Competitions. Choral numbers, folk songs and part-songs, will be sung. This evening the Roslyn Pfesbyterian Choir, one <jf the finest in Dunedin, will present the main portion of 4YA’s programme.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER Ist. * The third concert of 'the 1931 season of the Aeolian Orchestra '(under the baton of Mr Gerald T. Lee) will be broadcast by IYA this evening. The Waiata ladies’ quartet of 2YA, who have proved so popular in recent broadcasts, will again delight listeners in a budget of quartettes, duets and solos. In addition, Mr Val. Jones (baritone) will be heard in “The Blue Dragoon,” ,r 0 Flower Divine,” and “It’s Only a Tiny Garden. A novelty instrumental quartet, The Neapolitans, new to 2YA, will present some snappy up-to-date melodies. The Salon Orchestra, under Mr M. T. Dixon, will be heard in “Sanderson’s Songs,” the descriptive number “A Round of Country Dance Tunes,” the selection “Brie a Brae,” “Mosquito Ballet,” a novelty “Fireflies,” and the latest dance novelties. The second of the series of talks by Mr Geo. Lawn, M.A., on ‘‘Russia To-day” will be the lecture on the 2>YA International Programme this evening. Silent day at 4YA.