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TONIGHT'S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 0.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.23: Time signals. 7.30: Talk by Gardening Expert. 8.0: The 2YA Concert Orchestra, conducted by Leon de Mauny, “Vanity Fair” Overture (Fletcher). 8.7: R. G. Gilbert (baritone), “Lorraine. Lorraine, Loree” (Spross); “Ireland. Mother Ireland” (Loughborough); “The Great Adventure” (Percy Fletcher). 8.16: The 2YA Concert Orchestra. 8.28: Megan Thomas (soprano). "Villanelle” (Dell ’Aequo): “Good-day Said the Blackbird” (Geehl). 8.35: The 2YA Concert Orchestra. 8.40: Talk by Dr Guy H. Scholefield. 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: “Into the Light.” 9.32: “Soldier of Fortune” (chapter 17). 10.0: Dance music by Sammy Lee and his
Americanadians. 10.28: Time signals. 10.30: Talk by Lincoln Ellsworth, noted Antarctic explorer—rebroadcast from Australia. 11.0: Close down.
2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0: Light musical programme. 0.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Operatic highlights. 8.40: Symphonic programme, featuring, at 9.24, Symphony No 4 in A Minor (Sibelius). 10.0: In Lighter Vein. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0: Film music. 7.15: Leaves from the diary of a film fan. 7.45: The Crimson Trail. 8.0: Trailer. 8.45: Rhythm All The Time. 9.0: Stars of the musical firmament. 9.15: “Variety.” 9.45: Music round the campfire. 10.0: Close down. z IYA, Auckland. 650, k.c.
5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 8.0: Lener String Quartet with L. d’Oliveira (second viola), Third and Fourth Movements of Quintet in G Minor (Mozart). 8.22: Keith Falkner (baritone), “The Aspiration”; “If Music Be the Food of Love” (Purcell). International String Quartet, Four Part Fantasias, Nos 1 and 2 (Purcell). Keith Falkner (baritone), “I Love and I Must” (Purcell). 8.42: Ina Bosworth (violin), “Chaconne” (Vitali). 8.55: Elisabeth Schumann (soprano) “Ever Lighter Grows My Slumber” (Brahms). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: “Coronets of England.” 9.25: Grand Symphony Orchestra, "Sousa’s Marches.” 9.34: Clem Williams (baritone), “Brothers of the Empire” (Thayer); “The Good Green Acres of Home” (Fain). 9.49: Albert Sandler Trio, “Romance” (Rubinstein); “Rustle of Spring” (Sniding). 9.55: Heyn's Gesangs Guitarristen, “Dark Marie” (Volmershausen). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.
3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.c.
5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.20: Addington stock market reports. 7.35: Talk, Mrs A. M. Spence-Clark. “The Makings of a Great Dog.” 8.0: Readings by Mr O. L. Simmance. with music: (a) “Pickwick Papers” by Charles Dickens: (b) An extract from “Peregrine Pickle” by Tobias Smollet. 8.35: Lotte Lehmann (soprano), “Theresa,” Op 86, No 1; “My Love is Green.” Op 63. No 5; “Nightingale.” Op 97. No 1; “The Huntsman,” Op 95, No 4; ‘'Death is the Cooling Night,’ Op 96, No 1 (Brahms). 8.44: Organ recital by Alfred Worsley (from St Mary’s Anglican Church). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Dr Hans SchmidtIsserstedt. "Phaedra” Overture (Massenet). 9.13: Vladimir Rosing (tenorl, "Lullaby”; “Autumn,” Op 27. No 2 (Arensky). 9.17: Professor Dr Willem Mengelberg with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Symphony No 6 (Pathetique). Op 74 (Tschaikowsky). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.
4YA, Dunedin 790 k.c.
5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.30: Talk by Motoring Expert. 8.0: "Mittens”—An epic of the Turf. 8.14: The Bold Bad Buccaneers in humour and harmony. 8.28: “The Fourth Form At St Percy’s.” 8.40: Interview with C. S. Dempster, New Zealand Test cricketer and captain of the Leicestershire Eleven. 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: A humorous interlude by White and Reno. 9.18: “Westward Ho!” 9.31: “Ports of Call—A Visit to Arabia.” 10.0: “Will Osborne Entertains.” 11.0: Close down.
Empire Programme. GSD, 25.53 m.; GSE, 25.29 m.; GSF, 19.82 m.; GSO, 19.76 m.; GSI, 19.66 m. 8.0: Music Hall. 9.0: "Books,' No 3. 9.15: Hazel’s Aylesbury Printing Works Band. 9.50: News and announcements. 10.15: Close down.
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