WHAT’S ON THE AIR TO-DAY?

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 351, 4 February 1937, Page 8

WHAT’S ON THE AIR TO-DAY?

RADIO PROGRAMMES AT A GLANCE.

IYA AUCKLAND (650k.c., 461.3 m.) 6.0; Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 8.0: Concert programme. Continuity programme: “Romeo and Juliet. "The World's Greatest Love Stories.’’ 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Talk: Rev. W. M. Ryburn, "Jawahar Lal Nehru —the Congress Deaden” 9.20: Music by the Auckland Artillery Band. Conductor: Captain Gfeo. Buckley. Vocalist: Myra Booth. 9.50: John Hendrik (tenor).

9.54: The Band. 10.0: An hour with Eddy Duchln and bis Orchestra. •11.0: Close down.

TO-MORROW.

7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Devotional service.

10.15: Recordings. 11.0: Commentary on play in the Plunket Shield cricket match, Auckland v. Wellington, at Eden Park. Further commentaries will be broadcast throughout the day. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Recordings. 2.30: Classical hour. 3.15: Sports results. 3.30: Light musical programme. 4.0: Special weather report for farmers. 4.30: Sports results.

IYX AUCKLAND. (880k.c>, 340.7 m.)

5.0: Light musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Light recital programme, featuring Raie da Costa (piano), Evelyn Laye (soprano) and H. Lennington Shfewell (thcremin). 9.0: Chamber music hour. 10.0; Popular potpourri. 10.30: Close down.

2YA WELLINGTON (570k.c., 526 m.)

5.0: Children's session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Time signals. 8.0: Chimes. Popular programme. “Potted Revue,” No. 3. Half an hour of varied variety and vaudeville.

8.32: A further incident in the lives of the Japanese houseboy and his employer, "Mr Scudder Changes his Tune.”

8.46: Talk: Professor F. L. W. Wood, “World Affairs.” 9.1: Weather. Station notices.

9.5: A pianoforte recital by Junior

Farrell. 9.21: Abridged presentation of “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” 19.3: Mucic, mirth and melody. 11.3: Close down. TO-MORROW. 7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Recordings. 10.30: Devotional service. 11.0: Time signals. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Classical hour. 3.0: Sports results. 4.0: Time signals. Sports results.

2YC WELLINGTON (840k.c., 356.9 m.)

5.0: Light nautical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Chamber music hour. 9.0: Variety and vaudeville programme.

10.0: Light musical recital, featuring Renara (piano), Jan Kiepura (tenor), and W. H. Squire (’cello). .10.30: Close down.

3YA CHRISTCHURCH (720k.c„ 416.4 m.)

5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Time signals. 7.35: Review of the Journal of Agriculture.

8.0: Chimes. Studio presentation of “The Mummy’s Foot.” A fantasy from the story by Theophile Gautier.

8.30: Alfredo Campoli (violin)

8.36: Effie Atherton, Bertha Willmott, Bobbie Comber, Leonard Henry and Company.

8.44: The Victor Olof Sextet. 8.48: Max Kester and some cele brlties.

8.54: Serge Krish Instrumental Septet. 9.0: Weather. Station notices'. 9.5: Talk: Mr Leicester Webb. “World Affairs." 9.20: Dance music. 11.0: Close down.

TO-MORROW.

7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Devotional service

10.15: Recordings. Commentary on race for Sanders Cup. 11.0: Time signals. 11.2: Talk: Mrs W. F. KentJohnston, “Everyday Meals.” 11.17: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Recordings. 3.0: Classical music.

4.0: Time signals. 4.2: Frost and special weather forecast and light musical pro-

gramme. 4.30: Sports results.

3YL CHRISTCHURCH. (1200k.c„ 250 m.)

5.0: Recordings. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Highlights from musical comedies. 9.0: “Columbia on Parade.” A continuity programme, presented by leading Columbia recording artists.

10.0: “Harmony and Humour popular programme. 10.30: Close down.

4YA DUNEDIN. (790k.c., 379.5 m.)

6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Gardening talk. 8.0: Chimes. 4YA Concert Orchestra, conducted by Gil Dech. 8.42: A talk by W. W. Bird, late Superintendent of Native Education, “Song of the Maori” (No. 1).

9.0; Weather. Station notices.. 9.5: A Russian programme. London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Albert Coates. 9.13: Emmy Bettendorf (soprano). 9.22: The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Albert Coates. 9.34: Fritz Kreisler (violin). 9.43: The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Albert Coates. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. TO-MORROW. 7.0: Breakfast secsion. 9.0: Close down. 10.15: Devotional service. 10.30: Recordings. 10.45: Talk by Miss I. Finlay, "Cooking arid Recipes.” 11.0: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Recordings. 3.30: Sports results. Classical music. 4.0: Weather report. 4.30: Light musical programme.

4YO DUNEDIN. (1140k.c., 263.1 m.)

5.0: Recordings. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Variety and vaudeville pro-

10.0: Light musical recital, introducing Sidney Torch (organist), the Westminster Singers (male quartet), and Ivor Mairants and Albert Harris (guitar duettists). 10.30: Close down.

Australian Stations.

2BL SYDNEY. (740k.c., 405.4 m.)

10.0: “Choruses of Memory,” presented by the A.B.C. Wireless Chorus, conducted by John Antill. 10.30: “None Pay the Loser.” A radio play by Trafford Whitelock. Presented by Harold Colonna and Ethel Brunton Gibb.

11.0: Interlude (r). 11.10: Jim Davidson’s A.B.C. Dance Band presents a compilation of tuneful rhythms, woven about a pleasant and human story, “The Magic of Melody.”

2FC SYDNEY. (610k~„ 491.8 m.)

9.40: See 3LO, Melbourne. 10.55: State programme from Sydney. Interlude (r). 11.0: Programme by Bina Addy (Indian soprano).

3LO MELBOURNE. (770k.c., 389.6 m.)

9.40: A programme by the A.B.C. (Sydney) String Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Murison Bourn, assisted by Alfred Cunningham (baritone). 10.55: Recital by Stella Power (soprano), Vera Bradford (pianist), Stanley Baines (flautist). ,

3AR MELBOURNE (580k.c„ 516.9 m.)

10.0: “Ships That Pass in the

Night.” Captain A. C. C. Stevens. 10.15: Interlude (r). 10.20: “Proud Music of the- Storm,”, based on the poem by Walt. Whitman. Arranged and presented by Charles' Hawthorne.

T 0.50: Interlude (r). 11.0: Brass band concert by Brunswick City Band. Conductor: Hugh Niven, with Metro Male Quartet. EMPIRE SHORT-WAVE STATIONS. 8.0: Big Ben. A pianoforte recital by Irene Kohler. 8.20: The 8.8. C. Military Band; conductor, B. Walton O’Donnell. 8.55: “Food for Thought." Three short talks on matters of topical interest.

irest. 9.15: Musical interlude. 9.20: “In the Making.” 9.40: The news and announce

ments. 9.45: Greenwich time signal. 10.0: Close down.

Microphone in Next Room Traps Two Blackmailers

WOMAN NEARLY DRIVEN BY THREATS TO TAKE HER OWN LIFE Science in the shape of a microphone played a dramatic part in bringing two blackmailers to justice at Devon Assizes (England) recently. In the dock were Violet McKeowen (35), a palmist, and her husband, William McKeowen (40), showman. Both at first pleaded not guilty to demanding money by menaces from “Mrs A" at Westward Ho! There was a further charge against the woman of demanding money from a “Mrs. B.*’ Mr G. D. Roberts (prosecuting) said •‘Mrs A.,” who was living apart from her husband, was employed as companion to the wife of “Mr B” at Bideford, and in September, 1935, she found she was in a certain condition. She visited Bideford Fair, and there met Violet McKeowen, who, as Madam Pharo ? had a palmist and fortune-telling booth.

Subsequently “Mrs A” went to Redruth, where she stayed with Mrs MeKeowen.

Mrs McKeowen came into possession —wrongfully, it was suggested—of letters belonging to “Mrs A.” When

“Mrs A” returned to her occupation Mrs McKeowen began sending « letters demanding money, pointing out how much harm could be done if “Mrs A’s” secret leaked out.

“By these threats,” said Mr Roberts, ■‘she extorted from ‘Mrs. A’ £l5O. Finally, ‘Mrs A’ went to the police.’/ Later there was an interview between “Mrs A’ and the two accused, when police were concealed in another room and heard by means of a microphone all that passed. In evidence “Mrs A’ said that as a result of the letters she was going to commit suicide.

After the luncheon adjournment the accused pleaded guilty to all charges. Passing sentence of five years’ penal servitude on each of them, Mr Justice Charles said: “Over and over again you wrote to this woman saying, ‘We have got those letters. They will ruin you if people know about them. We won’t let people know if you pay us enough.’ ” ‘‘Mrs A,” he said, had been nearly driven into taking her own life.