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TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES
2YA, Wellington 570 k.c.
. 5.0: Children’s session. ! 5.45: Dinner music. ; 6.55: Weather report. 7.0: News. 7.28: Time signals. 7.40: Talk by Philpot Crowther, “The Stamps of Tasmania.” 8.0: Lener String Quartet. “Grosse Fuge” (Beethoven). 8.17: Julie Werry (soprano). Four songs by Grieg: “Primrose.” “The Swan,” “I Love
Thee.” "The Dream.” 8.28: The Virtuoso String Quartet, “Theme and Variations” (Haydn). 8.32: Shirley Craig (pianiste), Prelude and Fugue in D Major (Book 2) (Bach); First Movement from Sonata in B Minor (Chopin). 8.52: Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone), “An Die HofTnung” (Beethoven). 9.0: Reserved. 9.20: Weather report. Station notices. 9.25: “Coronets of England: The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots.” 9.51: “The Circle of Shiva.” 10.4: Modern dance music. 11.4: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c.
5.0-0.0: Light music. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Band music, with humorous interludes. 9.0: Light orchestral music, with vocal interludes by favourite singers. 10.0: In merry mood. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 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: Keyboard rhythm. 9.30: Theatre box memories. 9.42: Music of the Southern Seas. ’10.0: Close down.
IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c.
5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather report. 7.0: News. 8.0: “Out of the Silence.” 8.30: “The Radio That Hitler Fears” (episode 10). 8.45: “Ravenshoe.” 9.0: Reserved. 9.20: Weather report. Station notices. 9.25: The Studio Orchestra, conducted by Harold Baxter, “Tales From a Fairy Book” (Engleman).) 9.33: Margaret Sheridan (soprano), “The Meeting of the Waters” (Moore); “The Lover’s Curse” (arr. Hughes). 9.39: The Studio Orchestra, “Morning Song” “Evening Song” (Elgar). 9.45: Keith Falkner (baritone), “Trade Winds,” “Port of Many Ships,” “Mother Carey” (Keel). 9.51: The Studio Orchestra, “Manhattan Rhapsody” (Thayer). 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: Talk by the Garden Expert, “Work for the Month.” 8.0: Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, “Splendid Guards” March (Prevost); “Zampa” Overture (Herold). 8.11: Claude O’Hagan (baritone), “Wandering the King’s Highway” (Coward); “By the Bend of the River” (Edwards). 8.18: St. Hilda Colliery Prize Band, “Jamie’s Patrol” (Darce); “Hiawatha” Ballet Music (Coleridge-Taylor); “Paddy’s Patrol” (Dacre). 8.30: “Eb and Zeb.” 8.39: Band of H.M. Irish Guards, “Nautical Moments”- (arr. Winter). 8.45: Claude O’Hagan (baritone), “The Emperor’s Charioteer” (Mornement); “Without a Song” (Youmans). 8.52: Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, “Reminiscences of Scotland’ (arr. Godfrey). 9.0: Reserved. 9.20: Weather report. Station notices. 9.25: Freedrick Page (pianoforte), Sonata in C Minor (Mozart). 9.40: Recordings. Lotte Lehmann (soprano), “Secrecy” Mozart). 9.44: Pro Arte Quartet, Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 64. No. G Haydn). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.
4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather report. 7.0: News. 8.0: The Glasgow Orpheus Choir, “Dumbarton’s Drums’ (Bantock); “An Eriskay Love Lilt” (arr. Robertson); “Cradle Song” (Gibbs); "Great God of Love” (Pearsall); “Laird o’ Cockpen” (Roberton). 8.17: The Griller String Quartet, Quartet in A (Armstrong Gibbs). 8.35: Nancy Evans (contralto), in a recital ot song,s by Gurney, “The Scribe,” “Nine of the Clock O.” “Latvian Shepherd,” "Blaweary” (Lullaby), “You Are My Sky.” 8.47: The New Symphony Orchestra, “Tintagel" (Bax). 9.0: Reserved. 9.20: Weather report. Station notices. 9.25: “West from Bristol.’ 9.54: The Chenil Orchestra, “Selection of Welsh Airs." 10.0: Dance music. 11.0: Close down.
Empire Programme. War news will be broadcast from Daventry at the following New Zealand times: G a.m, 7; 12.30 p.m, 4, 6.15. 9, 11.30. Transmission One from Daventry (directed to Australia, New Zealand and Oceania), 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. GSB, 31.55 m. (6 p.m. to 8.15 p.m.); GSC, 31.22 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.G0 m. (from 7 p.m.).
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1940, Page 2
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