OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1938, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.25: Rebroadcast from League of Nations shortwave station at Geneva. 7.28: “The Whirligig of Time: Homes and Hearth: Furnishing Materials in the Home.” Speaker: Dr Lyndon Bastings. 8.0: Pro Arte Quartet (Onnou, Halleux, Prevost and Maas). Quartet in C Major, Op. 54, No. 2 (Haydn). 8.18: Lotte Lehmann (soprano), “Die Trommel Geruhret” (“Drums Loudly Beating”); “Freudvoll Und Liedvoll” “Cheerful and Fearful” (Beethoven). 8.24: Vladimir Horowitz (piano), Sonata No. 1 in E Flat (Haydn). 8.40: Talk, Professor F. L. W. Wood, “A New Zealand Observer in Europe.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Ringside description of wrestling match at Town Hall. 10.0: Dance programme. 10.28: Time signals. 11.0: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0: Light music. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. - 8.0: Band music, spoken interludes, featuring, at 8.15, Grenadier Guards Band, playing the “Nell Gwynn” Dances (German), and at 8.37 dramatic sketch, “The Wrong Bus.” 9.0: Ballads, with light orchestral interludes. 10.0: “In Merry Mood.” 10.30: Close down.

2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0: Rhapsodies in rhythm. 7.35: Pinto Pete in Arizona. 8.0: The Kingsmen—radio’s royal quartet. 8.15: In the 2YD Sports Club. 8.40: Trailer. 8.45: The brightest and best. 9.0: “Grand Hotel.” 9.30: Rosalie and her romances. 10.0: Close down. IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.35: Agricultural talk, "Farming Problems Answered.” 8.0: “Grand Hotel” (from Vicki Baum’s novel); 8.32: “Personal Column.” 8.46: Herbert Grandall, “Inscription on the Tomb of a Newfoundland Dog and Other Epitaphs” (Lord Byron); “Billy”; !‘A Black Story” (Anonymous). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9,5: Ringside commentary on professional boxing match at Auckland Town Hall. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.

3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.o. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.35: Talk, "Climbing Plants.” 8.0: Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, “Reminiscences of Scotland” (arr. Godfrey). 8.10: Claude O’Hagan (baritone), (a) “The Company Sergeant-Major”; (b) “Land of Delight” (Sanderson). 8.17: 8.8. C. Wireless Military Band, “Le Reve Passe” (Helmer). 8.21: “Eb and Zeb.” 8.30: Bloy’s Banjo Band, “Sousa Scrapbook” March (arr. Emile Grimshaw): "Stealing from the Classics” Medley (arr. Bloy); “Kentucky Babe” (vocalist: Miss E. Henderson) (A. C. Liscombe); “Rakoczy” Hungarian March (Liszt, arr. Bloy); “Popular Choruses” Medley (arr. Bloy). 8.50: Claude O’Hagan (baritone), (a) “That Tumbledown Shack in Athlone” (Sender); (b) “Homeland” (Drummond). 8.57: Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards. “Old Comrades’ March (Teike). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Talk, Mr M. S. Nestor, “Cross Roads of History: The Providence.” 9.20: Gladys Vincent (violin), Francis Bate ( cello), and Ernest Jenner (pianoforte), Trio in B Minor, Op. 32 (Arensky). 9.49: Elena Gerhardt (mezzo-soprano), (a) "And If I Come Unto Your Door”; (b) “My Maiden Has a Mouth of Red”; (c) “My Darling Shall Never With Bare Feet Go”; (d) “Allow me”; (e) “The Vain Suit”; (f) “The Maiden Speaks” (Brahms). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.

4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c.4.30: Light music. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.30: Addresses by four young farmers from South Otago clubs. 8.0: Ernest Drake’s Student Choir. Conductor: Ernest Drake, instrumental interludes, “To Thee We Call” (Tschaikowsky); “To Thee, O Lord, Do I Lift Up My Soul”; “The Beatitudes” (Kalminikoff). 8.11: Albert Sandler Trio, “Le Canarl” (Poliakin); “Faery Song” (Broughton). 8.17; The Choir, “An Evening Pastorale” (Shaw); “Great is Jehovah” (Schubert); “An Evening Lullaby” (Shaw). 8.27: Edwin Fischer and Chamber Orchestra, Air from Suite No. 3 in D Major (Bach). 8.31: The Choir, Two Madrigals, “The Silver Swan” (Gibbons); “Adieu, Sweet Amarillis” (Wilbye); “Nymphs and Shepherds” (Purcell). 8.40: Talk, Mr J. T. Paul, “World Affairs.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: “Victoriana, No. 4: The Fight for Peace, dramatic mosaic. 10.13: Dance music. 11.0: Close down.