WHAT’S ON THE AIR TO-DAY?

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 310, 16 December 1936, Page 8

WHAT’S ON THE AIR TO-DAY?

RADIO PROGRAMMES AT A GLANCE. Wednesday, December 16, 1936. - 1 YA—AUCKLAND. 650 kc. 461.3 m. ’ ■ 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Holiday talk by J. Clarke, “Christmas Tours.” 8.0: Chamber music programme. Mrs. P. Sholto Smith presents Sonata in D Minor for Piano. 8.20; Mrs Harold Owers, mezzo-soprano. 8.30: Haydn Murray (violin) and Dorothea Ryan (piano). 9.0: Weather; station notices. 9.5: Talk, Miss C.F. Hull, “The Christmas Spirit.” 9.20: Recordings: Jack Jackson's Hotel Orchestra. /9.30: Peter Dawson (bass-baritone). 9.37: Eric Coates and Symphony Orchestra. 9.49: Turner Layton (tenor). 9.55: Ambrose and his Orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 1 1.0: Close down. TO-MORROW. A-■ • * 7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Devotional service. 10.15: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 12.30: Relay of mid-week service from St. Matthew’s Anglican Church. 12.50: Continuation of lunch music. 2.0: Recordings. 2.30: Classical hour. 3.15: Sports results. 3.30 Talk: “Hot Weather Hints About ‘Food.” 3.45: Light music. 4.0: Weather report. 4.30: Sports results 1 Y.X.—.AUCKLAND. 880k.c. 340.7 m. \ m■ ■ 5.0: Light musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: Afterdinner music. 8.0: “Here Comes the Band,” a programme of band music. 9.0: Classical recital programme. 10.0: “In Order of Appearance.” James Compton (cornetist), Peter Dawson (baritone), and Frederic Bayco (organist). 10.30: Close down. 2 YA—WELLINGTON. 570 kc. 526 m. W?'"’ l v ! ■ ' • 5.0: Children’s session, conducted by Uncle Campbell. Dinner session. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Time signals. Talk by Gardening Expert: “For the Home Gardener.” 9.0: Chimes. /X B-B .C. recorded programme, “The Table Under the Tree.” An evening in a Continental cafe, with Wilfred Rooke Ley; music by Walford Hyden’s Orchestra. 8.44: Talk, “World Affairs.” 9.4: Weather; station notices. ’ 9.9: “Shakespeare or Bacon—To Be or Not To Be—ls it Shakespeare? Is it Bacon?” 9.51 : Serge Krish Instrumental Septet, “Old England.” 9.54: Percy Edgar, Charles Brewer, Mabel France and Gladys Joine (humorous sketch), “The Invalid.” 10.0: An hour with Jan Garber and his Orchestra. 1 1.0: Close down.

TO-MORROW. 7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Recordings. 10.30: Devotional service. 11.0 s Time signals. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Educational session. 3.0: Sports results. 3.30: Special weather forecast. 4.0: Time signals. Sports results. 2YC—WELLINGTON. 840k.c. 356.9 m. . ! J 5.0: Light musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner session. 8.0: Light classical recital. 8.40: Programme of Italian symphonic music, ancient and modern. 10.0: Thirty minutea of light music and Rumour. 10.30: Close down 3 YA—CHRISTCHURCH. 720 kc. 416.4 m. ■•J'" ■ ;■’ ! ‘ • 5.0: Children’s hour, conducted by Uncle Alan. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.20: Addington Stock Market reports. 7.30: Time signal. 7.35: Talk, Guy Mannering: “Mountaineering.” 8.0: Chimes. Recording. The London Symphony Orchestra. 8.18: Recording, Elena Gerhardt (mezzo-soprano). 8.24: Arved Kurtz, celebrated violinist. 8.35: Recordings, Heinrich Schhisnus (baritone). 8.48: Boston Symphony Orchestra. 9.0: Weather; stations notices. 9.5; Talk, Mr. George Harper, “The Anniversary of Canterbury.” 9.20: Recording, Wilhelm Backhaus (pianoforte), with the 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth, and melody. 1 1.0: Close down. ■ TO-MORROW. 7.0; Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Devotional service. 10.15: Time signals. 11.0: Time signals. 11.2: Talk under auspices of the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women. * Miss M. G. Havelaar, “The International Council of Women in Congress at Belgrade.” 11.17: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch music., 2-30: Talk, “Hot Weather Hints About Food.” 3.0: ClaHical music. 4.0: Time signals. 4.2: Frost and special weather forecast and light musical programme. 4.30: Sports results. 5.0: •nd vaudeville programme. 10.0: Light recital programme. * 3 YL—CHRISTCHURCH. 1200 kc. 250 m. 5.0: Selected recordings. Close down. 7.0: Afterdinner music. 8.0: “Ambassadors of the Microphone.” A variety Close down. 4 YA—DUNEDIN. 790 kc. 379.5 m.

5.0: Children's session, conducted by Mr. Travel Man. 6.0: Dinner music. 6.47: New Symphony Orchestra. 7.0:. News and repotrs. 7.30: Book talk. 8.0: Chimes. The 8.8. C. Dance Orchestra. 8.10: "Landscape Gardening. A further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and his employed. 8.25 "Music Round the Campfire. 8.40: A 8.8. C. recorde dtalk, "Conquest of the Air. ' 9.0: Weather; station notices. 9.5: Fifteen minutes of humour. Presented by George Edwards and Nell Stirling. 9.20: In Memory of Edward German: Plaza Theatre Orchestra, "Gipsy” Suite. 9.36: The Baraldi Trio. 9.42: Sylvester Aloha (cornet). 9.45: Keith Falkner (baritone). 9.51: Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards. 10.0: Programme of dance music by 4YA Dance Band. 1 1.0: Close down. TO-MORROW. 7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Recordings. 10.1 5: Devotional service. 10.30: Recordings. 120: Lunch music. 2.0: Educational .session. 3.0: Recordings. 3.30: Sports results. 4.0: Weather report. 4.30: Light musical programme. 4.45: Sports results. 4 YO.—-DUNEDIN. 1140 kc. 263.1 m. 5.0; Selected recordings. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-din-ner music. 8.0: Modern French orchestral programme. 9.0: Variety and vaudeville programme.. 10.0: Comedy and light music. |0.30.‘ Close down.

PROGRAMMES FROM AUSTRALIA. 2 FC—SYDNEY. 610 kc. 491.6 m. As for 3LO, Melbourne. 2 B.L.—SYDNEY. 740 kc. 405.4 m. 10.0: An Hour with Johann Sebastian Bach, arranged by Frank Warbrick, in conjunction with St. David’s Presbyterian Choir, Lindfield, assisted by Leonora Gotsch, soprano; Miss Hollingworth, contralto; Walter Kingsley, bass; and Vaughan Hanly, leader of the orchestra. I 1.0: Talk, to be arranged. 11.15: "Musical Giants of Yesteryear.” A recorded prog ramme of famous artists, arranged and presented by G. Johnston and Ben Sullivan. 3 L.O.—- MELBOURNE. 770 kc. 389.6 m. 1.0: National programme from Sydney, "Walls Have Ears,” No. 6. Production, Lawrence 11. Cecil. 10.50: Interlude (r.) I 1.0: The National Military Band. 3 A.R.—MELBOURNE. 580 kc. 516.9 m. 10.0: Unit one. From the Melbourne Town Hall: Concert by the Royal Victorian Liedertafel. Conductor: Fredric Earp. Pianist: Eric Fox. Assisted by Wilma Berkeley, soprano; Fred Sutcliffe, tenor,*and the New Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: C. J. Laure. Chorus and Orchestra. EMPIRE SHORT-WAVE STATIONS. 8.0 p.m.: Big Ben. "Empire Magazine,” No. 18. A weekly review of things at Home. 8.31: "Foreign Affairs.” A talk by Sir Frederick Whyte, K.C.5.1., LL.D. 8.46: The 8.8. C. Empire Orchestra; leader, Daniel Melsa; conductor, Eric Fogg. 9.40: The news and announcements. Greenwich time signal at 9.45.