OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 February 1939, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. . 5.0: Children’s session. : 6.0; Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.28: Time signals. I 7.30: Talk, “Winter and Spring Feeding o£ Dairy Cows,” arranged for farmers by the Department of Agriculture. 7.40: Talk by Motoring Expert. 8.0: "Music of the Bohemians.” Berlin State Opera Orchestra, “The Bartered Bride” Overture I Smetana). 8.7: Jarmila Novotna (Bohemian prima donna), “Poem” (Fibich). 8.10: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Slavonic Dance No. G in D Major (Dvorak). 8.14: Sir George Henschel (baritone), "By the Waters of Babylon” (Dvorak). 8.17: The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, “The Bartered Bride” polka and dance of the. comedians (.Smetana). 8.25: Jarmila Novotna (soprano), "Humoreske” (Dvorak). 8.28: Berlin State Opera Orchestra, “Moldau” (Parts 1 to 3) (Smetana). 8.40: Talk, Sir Thomas Wilford, “Personalities I Have Met” (1). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Viola Morris and Victoria Anderson present, Duets (unaccompanied i. “Sister Awake” (Bateson); “Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis” (John Wilbye); and “Sing We and Chant It’ ’(Thomas Morley). Solos. Viola Morris, “Have You Seen But a Whyte Lillie Grow?” (Anon) and “Come Again, Sweete Love Doth Now Invite” (Dowland). Solos, Victoria Anderson, “On a Time, the Amorous Silvy” (Attey), and “Fine Knacks for Ladies” (Dowland). Duets (with string accompaniment), “The Search” (“The Moon” Cantata); “Lost Is My Quiet”; and “Sound the Trumpet” (Henry Purcell). 9.30: Myra! Hess (piano) and Orchestra, conducted by Walter Goehr, Concerto in A Minor. Op. 54 (Schumann). 10.2: Music, mirth and melody. 11.2: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0: Light musical programme. 0.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music., 8.0: “Variety on the Air”—two hours of popular recordings. 10.0: Light recitals. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0: “Stop Press”—new recordings. 7.35: The Kingsmen—radio’s royal quartet. 7.48: Musical melange. 8.25: Buccaneers of the Pirate Ship Vulture. 8.40: Trailer. 8.45: Fourth Form at St. Percy’s. 9.0: Melody time. 9.15: Exploits of the “Black Moth: Affairs of State.” 9.45: Romance and melody. 10.0: Close down. IYA, Auckland. 650, k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.30: Talk by the Gardening Expert. 8.0: The London Piano Accordion Band, “There’s a Lady in Calais” (Kennedy). 8.5: “Rich Uncle from Fiji” (episodes's and 6). 8.18: Reserved. 8.23: “Eb and Zeb.” 8.42: Melodies by the Buccaneers of the Pirate Ship Vulture. 8.54: The London Piano Accordion Band, “So Little Time, So Much To Do” (de Rose). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Talk, “The International Labour Conference Organisation at Geneva” —Mr . James Thorn. M.P. 9.25: Dance music. 11.0: Close down. 3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.c. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.35: Book review. 8.0: “Soldier of Fortune,” written for radio by Edmund Barclay, and presented by James Raglan. 8.29: Dajos Bela Orchestra. “Viennese Memories” (Leharl. 8.35: ‘‘Here’s a Queer Thing.” 8.48: Gleb Yellin’s Gipsy Orchestra, introducing “Under the Birch Tree”; “Gipsy Medley”: “Bricks”; and “Dance of the Nomads.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Interview with Mr Gerald Backhouse and Mr Ted Best, two outstanding Australian athletes, who toured New Zealand recently. 9.20: “Music at Your Fireside,” featuring “El Mio Tesoro” (Mozart) and Nocturne in E Flat (Chopin). 9.34: Japanese houseboy. 9.48: “The Nigger Minstrels.” 10.0: An hour of dance music. 11.0: Close down.

4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. G.O: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 8.0: The Grand Symphony Orchestra, “Sousa’s Marches” (Sousa). 8,10: The Norsemen (male quartet), “I Passed Up a Wonderful Thing” (Fisher). 8.13: The Hawaiian Serenaders, “Wehi Wehi Oe”; “Makalapua”; “Medley”; “Lei Poni Moi.” 8.25: George Van Dusen (yodelling), “Coronation Yodelling Song” (Van Dusen). 8.28: Reginald Dixon (organ), Dancing Time, No. 2. 8.34: Te Mauri Meihana (soprano), “The Little Poi Dancer” (Brooke). 8.57: Primo Scala and his Accordion Band, “Down the Rickety Road” (Stanley). 8.40: Talk by Mr R. B. Cooper, formerly of the N.Z. Lighthouse Service, “Life at a Lighthouse.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Munn and Felton’s Works Band, “William Tell" Overture (Rossini). 9.11: Raymond Beatty (Australian bass-baritone), “On the Road to Mandalay” (Speaks); “Invictus” (Hahn); “Ole Man River” (Kern); "Shortnin' Bread” (Wolfe). 9.24: Massed Brass Bands, “On Parade” (Gatty); “My Lady Dainty” (Hesse). 9.30: “Eb and Zeb.” 9.39: Grand Massed Brass' Bands, “Round the Camp Fire” (Maynard). 9.45: Heather Kinnaird (Australian contralto), “Steal Away” (arr. Brown); "Black Sheep” lari'. Manney); “Seekin’” (Marshall. Hall); “Ma Curly-Headed Babby” (Clutsam). 9.57: Grand Massed Brass Bands. “The Blue Danube” (Strauss). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. Empire Programme. GSD, 25.53 m.; GSE, 25.29 m.; GSF, 19.82 m.; GSO, 19.78 m.; GST, 19.G6 m. 3.0 p.m.: Organ recital by O. H. Peasgood. 8.20: “Portland Stone.” Feature programme by James Bone. 8.50: Excerpts from light opera—6. 9.50: News and announcements. 10.0: Close down.