WHAT’S ON THE AIR TO-DAY?

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 423, 3 May 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. 7.30: Agricultural talk. 8.0: Concert programme. Talk by the Hon Adam Hamilton, M.P., on ‘The King George V Memorial Fund.” 8.5: Dan Flood (comedian). 8.15: “The Mystery of the Seven Cafes.” A Secret Service melodrama 8.15: “John Willie and Mary Ellen at the Races.” 9.9: Weather. Station notices;. 9.5: Ringside commentary on professional boxing match, relayed from the Auckland Town Hall. 10.0: Music, mir h and melody. 11.0: Close down. TO-MORROW. 7.0: Breakfast session. 9*o: Close down. 10.0: DevcLional service. 10.15: Selected recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Educational session, relayed from th Teachers’ Training College. 3.0: Light musical ‘programme. .3 15: Sports results. 3.30: Light musical programme. 4.0: Special wetather forecast for farmers. 4.30: Spot's results. IYX AUCKLAND. 880 k.c. 340.7 m. 5.0: Light musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7) 0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Gems from British Optra. 10.0: Light reci al pro-gramme, featuring Gretl Vernon (soprano), Herbert Luster's Piano Or.-chestra, and Howard Jacobs (Saxophone). I. Close down. 2YA WELLINGTON. (570k.c., 526 m.) 5.0: Children’s hour. 6,0: Dinner music, 7.0: N ws and reports. 7.20: Rebro:.ideas’, from Geneva. 7.30: ‘This Changing World: Has Man Really Changed?” (discussion). ■8.0: Talk: The Hon. Adam Hamilton, Loader of the Opposition, “King George V Memorial Fund” (National broadcast). 8.10: Chamber music programme. 8.28: Mrs. Richard Bradl.y (contralto). 8.40: Talk: The Hon. Sir Charles Statham, M.LC., “The Romance of Parliament.” 9.0: Weather. Sa-ion notices. 9.5: Ringside description of the wrestling match (relayed from Town Hall). 10.0: Dance programme 11. Close down. TO-MORROW. 7.'.': Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Selected recordingsv 10.30: service. 11.0: Time signcis. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Classical hous 3.0: Sports results. 3.30: Special w a her forecast for farmers. 4.0: Sports results. • 2YC WELLINGTON. (840k.c., 356 m.)

6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 5.0: Light musical programme. 8.0: Programme of band recordings, with spoken interludes 9.0: Light orchestral and ballad programme. 10.0: Thirty minutes of variety. 10.30: Close down. 3YA CHRISTCHURCH. (720k.c., 416.4 m.) SA: Children’s hour 6.6. Dinner mi.de. 7.0: News and 'epints 7.30: Time signals. 7.35: Talk, Our Garden Expert. 8.0: Chimes. Talk, Hon. Adam Hamilton., M.P. (Leader of the Opposition), “King George V Memorial Fund.” (National broadcast). 8.10: The BBC Military Band. 8.16: Peter Dawson (bass-baritone), 8.19: Perce Skinner’s Harmonica Band. 8.35: “Eb and Zeb,” the country storekeepers, in another humorous episode. 8.44: Foden’s Motor Works Band. 8.50: Richard Crooks (tenor). 8.54: Massed Brass Bands. 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Stella Power, Australia's coloratura Soprano). 9.20: Capet String Quartet. 9.54: Julius Klengel (’cello). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Gloss down.

T TO-MORROW. ! 7.0: Breakfast session I 90: Close dnv n j 10.0: Devotional service. » 10.15: Selected recordings. I 11.30: Time signal. 11.0: Talk, “Fashions.” 11.15: Selected recordings. 12 0: Lunch. nins’c. 2.0: Selected recordings. 3.0: Classical music. 3.30: Time signal. 4.0: Frost and special weather forecast and light musical programme. 4.30: Sports results. 3YC CHRISTCHURCH , (1200k.c., 250 m.) I 5.0: Selected recordings. ; 6.0: Close down. I 70; After dinner music. ‘ 8.0: Classical music. I 9.0: “On First Acquaintance.” A I popular programme of first-nighters. ; 10.0: Light recitals, presenting the ; Grand Hotel Orchestra, John Mc- ‘ Cormack (tenor), and the Banjo Sym- ■ phonic Orchestra. 10.30: CIO'S? down . 4YA DUNEDIN. (790k.c., 879.5 m.) ; 5.0: Children’s hour.

6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports7.30: News and lecture for farmers, arranged by the Farmers’ Union. ! 8.0: Chimes. A talk by Hon. Adam ‘ Hamilton, M.P., Leader of the Opposii lion, “The King George V Memorial I Fund.” I 8.7 (approx.): A concert by the i Lyric Choir, 8.17: Cedric Sharpe Sextet. 8.20: The Lyric Choir. 8.32: Cedric Sharpe Sextet. 8.35: The Lyric Choir. ; 8.46: Talk, “World Affairs.” ! 9.0: Weather. Station notices. I 9.11: “The Importance of Being . Ernest.” A trivial comedy for serious i people. I 10.28: Dance tunes from the talkies, i featuring Fred Astaire. i 11.30: Close down. TO-MORROW. i 7.0: Breakfast session. • 9.0: Close down. ■ 10.0: Selected recordings. | 10.15: Devotional service. 12.0: Lunch music. x 1.0: Weather forecast. 2.0: Selected recordings. 3.30: Sports results. Classical music 4.0: Weather forecast. 4.30: Light musical programme. 4.45: Sports results.

4YO DUNEDIN. (11407.,:., 268.1 rl.) 5.0: Selected reconlinjs. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: Alter dinner music. 8.0: Variety and vaudeville programme. 9.0: Musical comedy and light opera programme. i 10.0: Comedy and light music. ] 10.30: Close down. Australian Stations, 2BL SYDNEY (740 k c., 405.4ri.) Interlude (r.). National News Bulletin. 9.0: Local news. 9.5: Musical interlude (r). 9.28: What’s on the Air To-night? 9.30: Lionel Lawson (violinist), in association with Ruth Pearce Jones (lyric soprano). 10.5: Our Film Review, by E. J. Francis. 10.25: Interlude (r.). 10.30: From the Sydney Town Hall, opening ceremony of the Amateur i Shortwave Radio Exhibition. j 11.0: From the studio (Sydney). Interlude (r). ■ 11.5: The National Military Band, ,in association with Alfred Cunnlngi ham (baritone). i ] 2FC SYDNEY (610k.x.„ 491 .Bit .) 9.10: “From the Cafe Noir.” I 9.30: Every Monday night at 9.30: I “As Ye Sow.” An Australian saga.

10.0: Interlude (r). 10.10: “The News Behind the News: The Watchman.” 10.30: “Dancing Down the Ages.” 11.0: “The Radioptimists” in a further programme of melody and mirth. 3LO MELBOURNE £ (770k.c., 389.6 m.) See 2FC. 3AR MELBOURNE (snok.c , | 9.0: Victorian news bulletin. 1 9.5: Musical reproductions. j 9.30: A sonata recital by Jascha ■ i Spivakovsky, piano, and Tossy Spiva- I | kovsky, violin. j 10.10: A programme of intenational ; celebrities, with special annotations. I I —— I ' EMPIRE SHORT-WAVE ; STATIONS. !■ I ; 4.30: Big Ben. Old-fashioned dance ! music. 4.40: “Twenty-five Years Ago.” : 5.55: “The Life of Elgar.” The BBC j Midland Orchestra. j 6.55: The news and announcements, j 6.15: Variety. I 6.45: Close down.