WHAT’S ON THE AIR TO-DAY?

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 374, 4 March 1937, Page 8

WHAT’S ON THE AIR TO-DAY?

RADIO PROGRAMMES AT A GLANCE.

IYA AUCKLAND (650k.c., 461.3 m.) 5.0: Children’s hour. , 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 8.0: Concert programme. Continuity hour, “Ftamous Rivers: The Rhine.” Narrator: Norah Whineray. 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Reserved. 9.20: Massed Brass Bands (Crystal Palace, 1935). 9.27: Massed Brass Bands (Leicester, 1935). 9.33: Geoffrey Laird (baritone). 9.43: The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards. 9.53: Massed Bands at Crystal Palace (1932). 9.57: Massed Brass Bands, including Fodens, Edmonton, and Woodgreen Excelsior. 10.0: An hour v'ith Guy Lombardo and hie Royal Canadians. 11:0: Close down. TO-MORROW. 7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Devotional service. 10.15: Recordings. 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 mutic. 8.0: Chamber music hour. 9.0: Miscellaneous classical programme, featuring the Ural and Doh Cossacks Choirs. 10.0: Popular Potpourri—Variety entertainment. 10.30: Close down. 2YA WELLINGTON - (570k.c., 526 m.) 5.0: session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Time signals. z 8.0: Louis Levy and his GaumontBritish Symphony Orchestra. 8.8: A further incident in the lives of the Japanese houseboy and his employer. 8.22: “Music Round the Campfire.” 8.36: Sydney Kite and the Piccadilly Hotel Band.

8.40: Talk, Mr O. Cl Mazcngarb, “The Trial of the Templars” (2). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: A recital programme, introducing R. F. Richards (baritore), Simon Barer (pianist)., Nino Martini (famous operatic t(nd film star). Guila Bustabo (the girl wonder violinist). 9.17: Simon Barer (pianoforte). 9.33: Nino Martini (fenor). 9.45: Gullo Bustabo (violinist). 10.0: Music, mirth and milody. 11.0: Close down. TO-MORROW. 7.0: Breakfast session. 7.5: "Keep Fit” session. 7.20: Continuation of breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Recordings. 10.30: Devotional service. 11.0: Time signals. 11.30: Talk, “Public Health Subjects.” 12.0:. Luach music. 2.0: Classical hour. 3.0: Sports results. Talk, prepared by the Association for Country Education. 3.30: Special weather forecast for farmers. 4.0: Time signals. Spoils results. 2YC WELLINGTON (840k.c., 356.9 m.) 5.0: Light musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Chamber music hour. 9.0: Variety and vaudeville programme. 10.0: Three short recitals by Harold Ramsay (organ), Jessica Dragoriette (soprano)-, Felix Salmond (’cello). 10.30: Close down. 3YA CHRISTCHURCH (720k.c., 4164 m., 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Time signals. 7.36: Review of the Journal of Agriculture. 8.0: John Henry and Blossom (humorous sketches). 8.15: Raie da Costa (pianoforte). 8.18: Florence Desmond (impersonator). 8.28: Harry Breuer (marimba with violin, ’cello and guitar). 8.31: Milton Hayes (entertainer).

8.42: Raie da Costa (pianoforte). 8.45: Clapham and Dwyer (humorous sketches). / 8.57: Harry Breuer (marimba). 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. I. Devotiona l service. 10.15: Recordings. 11. Time signals. 11.2: Talk, “Everyday Meals.” 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 programme. 4.30: Sports results'. 3YL CHRISTCHURCH. (1200k.c„ 250 m.) 5.0: Recordings. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Musical comedy programme. 9.0: “The French Foreign Legion.” A military cameo. This programme portrays in graphic fsahion the life of the Legionnaire, his duties and divertisements, his terrors and his pleasures. 9.40: “Thirty Minutes in Old Ireland.” 10.0: Popular Potpourri.” Variety entertainment. 10.30: Close down. 4YA DUNEDIN. (790k.c„ 379.5 m.) 5.0: Children’s 1 session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Gardening talk. 8.0: Concert by the New Symphony Orchestra. 8.14: Robert Couzinou (baritone). 8.24: The Orchestra. 8'.40: Talk, by Mr A. G. Smith, “The King's Messengers.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices'. 9.5: Beatrice Harrison, v'ith the Orchestra. z 9.29: Mary Pratt (contralto), presents a cycle of Gipsy songs. 9.44: The Orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.

TO-MORROW. 7.0: Breakfast session, 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Recordings. 10.15: Devotional service. 10.30: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch njqsic. 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- ' gramme. 10.0: Light musical recital. 10.30: Close down. Australian Stations. 2BL SYDNEY. (740k.c„ 405.4 m.) 9.30. Local news. 9.35: Weather and market reports 9.58: What’s on the air to-night? 10.0: 8.8. C. recording: "Monsieur Beaucaire.” 11.10: Interlude (r). 11.20: The National Military Band. 2FC SYDNEY. (610 k.... 491.8 m.) 9.40: String Suite, conducted by Kenneth Murison Bourn. 10.0: String Orchestra, conducted ' by Kenneth Murison Bourn. 10.45: Vocal duets by Haymond I Beatty (basso), and Heather KinI naird (contralto), with Gerald i Walenn (violinist). • 11.15: “Current Topics.” 3LO MELBOURNE. (770k.c., 389.6 m.) 10.45: A recital by Rita Miller (coloratura soprano), with Leslie Barklam (flute), and Adrian Bendall (harp). 11.15: National talk, -‘Current Topics.” 3AR MELBOURNE (580k.c., 516.9 m.) 10.0: “A Doctor Perforce.” A comedy adapted from “Le Medecin Malgre Lui” tyf Moliere.

10.40: Interlude (r). 10.45: “Heigh-Ho for History.” A retrospective harlequinade with music mediaeval and modern, written by George Matthews. 11.15: Interlude (r). EMPIRE SHORT-WAVE STATIONS. 8.0: Big Ben. “Ezra Pitt and Elmer Come to London.” 8.32: “Food for Thought.” Three short talks on matters of topical interest. 8.52: The Leon Daniels Trio. 9.25: "This is England” (8). A doctor with a country practice in the West of England. 9.40: The news and announcements. 9.45: Greenwich time signal. 10.0: Close down.