OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1939, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 5711 k.c. 5.0: Children's session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather report. 7.0: News. 7.28: Time signals. Talk by Mrs A. D. Houston. “The Care of Pets at Christmas Time.” 7.40: Talk, "Five Christmas Days in the Foreign Legion." an interview with an excorporal. 8.0: “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” (Mozart). “Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovski" (Arensky); “Air” (from "Ballet Music to Orpheus” (Gluck). 8.31: Vera Moginie (soprano) presents three songs by Henry Purcell. “Hark, Ihe Echoing Air,” “There’s Not a Swain on the Plain," "Nymphs and Shepherds." 8.41: The String Orchestra. "The Virtuous Wife” (Purcell, arr. Holst) (Incidental Music); “Orchestral Quartet" (Stamitz)-. 9.0: Reserved. 9.20: Weather report. Station notices. 9.25: “Coronets of England: The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots” (episode 9). 9.51: “The Circle of Shiva.” 10.0: Dance programme. 11.(5: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0-G.O: Light music. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: “Fall In and Follow the Band." Music by Franz Lehar. 10.0: Merry and bright. 10.30: Close down.

2YD, Wellington. 9990 k.c. 7.0: Rhapsodies in rhythm. 7.35: Personal Column. 7.45: “Sing As We Go.” 8.15: “The Woman in White." 8.28: Aerotones. 9.3: “His Last Plunge.” 9.15: Black and White Studies. 9.30: A chat with Maurice Costello. Irish heavyweight champion boxer. 9.40: Film favourites of the future. 10.0: Close down. IYA, Auckland. 950 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. C. 55: Weather report. 7.0: News. 8.0: “Locusts,” a short dramatic play. 8.30: “The Radio That Hitler Fears.’ 9.20: Weather report. Station notices. 9.25: Alfredo and his Richard Crooks (tenor), “I Dream of Jeanie.” Orchestra, “Paganini" Selection (Lehar). 9.31: “Massa's in De Cold. Cold Ground” (Foster). 9.37: Bert Lutter and his Orchestra, “Ballet Suite” (Popy). 9.49: Eileen Boyd (contralto), “I Passed By Your Window” (Brahe); “My Dear Soul” (Sanderson). 8.45: "Ravenshoe.” 9.0: Reserved. 9.55: Barnabas von Geczy and his Orchestra. “Roses of the South” (Strauss). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.

3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.c. 5.0: Children's session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather report. 7.0: News. 7.35: “Garden Problems.” 8.0: Woolston Brass Band, conductor, R. J. Estall. “Washington Greys” March (Grafula); “Thievish Magpie" Overture (Rossini). 8.17: Paul Robeson (bass). “Loch Lomond,” “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes” (Callcott). 8.24: The Band (cornet solo by Vic Aldridge), “Una Voce Poco Fa” (Rossini). 8.29: “Eb and Zeb.” 8.38: The Band, French Carol. “In Dulci Jubilo” (de Pearsall); “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing,” “Christians Awake” (Wainwright). 8.48: Richard Crooks (tenor), “A Dream of Paradise' (Gray): “O Song Divine” (Temple). 8.55: The Band, “When the King Goes Riding By” March (Nicholls). 9.0: Reserved. 9.20: Weather forecast. Station notices. 9.25: Gladys Vincent (violin) and Ernest Jenner (pianoforte), Sonata in B Minor (Respighi). 9.50: Nancy Evans (contralto), “Rest, Sweet Nymphs.’ “Saint Anthony of Padua’” (Peter Warlock); “Do Not Go, My Love” (Hageman). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.

4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.e. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. G. 55: Weftther report. 7.0: News. 8.0: Masterpieces of Music, with thematic illustrations and comments by Prof. V. E. Galway. Mus.D. 8.40: The Vienna Boys Choir, “The Little Sandman” (Brahms); “Not a Blade of Grass Grows on Earth” Bach; “Beloved, the Rose Has a Thorn” (tradl.); “Marie from the Mountains” (trad!.). 8.49: Celeste Instrumental Quartette, “Caprice Viennois” (Kreisler); “Chanson Triste” (Tschaikovski). 8.56: The Polydor Orchestra. “Turkish March” (Mozart). 9.0: Reserved. 9.20: Weather report. Station notices. 9.25: Grand Symphony Orchestra, “The Waltz Kings” (Lindemann). 9.33: The Schuricke Trio, “Piccolino” (Siegel). 9.30: The Paradise Island Trio. “Drowsy Waters” (Allan). 9.39: Julius Patzak (tenorl and Maria Riener (soprano), "The Gipsy Baron” Potpourri (Strauss). 9.45: Reginald Porter-Brown (organ), “Organ Medley.” 9.51: Harry Gordon and Donald Hunter (sketch). “Passing the Time” (Gordon). 9.57: The Polydor Orchestra, “Santiago” (Corbin). 10.0:1 Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra, with vocal interludes by Kate Smith. 11.0: Close down. I Empire Programme. War news will be broadcast from Daventry at the following New Zealand times: 6 a.m., 7, 12.30 p.m., 4, 6.15, 9, 11.30. Transmission One from Daventry (directed to Australia, New Zealand and Oceania), (I p.m. to 10 p.m. GSB, 31.55 m. (6 p.m. to 8.15 p.m.); GSC, 31.32 m. (6 p.m. to 6.45 p.m.); GSE, 25.29 m. (from 8.30 p.m.); GSF, 19.82 m. (from 8.30 p.m.); GSI, 19.66 m.; GSP, 19.60 m. (from 7 p.m.).