OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1940, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 6.15 (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News. 7.28: Time signals. 8.0: Symphony Concert by the Wellington Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leon de Mauny; and the Centennial Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Anderson Tyrer. 10.50: Evening prayer. 11.0: Close of normal programme. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0-6.0: Light music. 7.30: Talk by a Gardening Expert. 8.0: Variety programme. 10.30 (approx.): Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0: Cocktails. 7.35: “Here’s a Queer Thing.” 7.45: “The Kingsmen.” 8.15: “The Adventures of Marco Polo.” 8.28: Solo Artists’ spotlight. 8.45: Stars of the musical firmament. 9.0: “The Life of Cleopatra.” 9.30: Night Club. 10.0: Close down.

IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c.

5.0: Children’s session. 6.15 (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News. 8.0: Capet String Quartet, Quartet in A Minor (Schumann). 8.26: Gwenda Weir (soprano), “The Fuchsia Tree” (Quilter); “Ave Maria” (Kahn); “Weep Ye No More, Sad Fountains”; “My True Love Hath My Heart” (Frederick Keel). 8.38: Owen-Jensen (piano), Sonata in A Major, Opus 120 (Schubert. 8.54: Keith Falkner (baritone), with ’cello and harpsichord, “If Music be the Food of Love” (Purcells. 9.10: Weather reports. Station notices. 9.15: “The Marshalls.” 9.38: Arthur Young on the Novachord, “I Love the Moon” (Rubens); “Roses of Picardy” (Wood). 9.44: Paul Robeson (bass), “Down de Lovers’ Lane” (Cook); “Lullaby” (Gambs). 9.50: Paul Whiteman and his concert orchestra. "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” (Hart Rodgers). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 10.50: Evening prayer. 11.0: Close of normal programme.

3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.c.

5.0: Children’s session. 6.15 (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News. 7.20: Addington Stock Market Report. 7.32: Winter Course talk. 8.0: Readings by O. L. Simmancc. 8.31: Beatrice Harrison (’cello) and the New Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Edward Elgar, Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op. 85 (Elgar). 8.57: John McCormack (tenor), “Is She Not Passing Fair” (Elgar). 9.10: Weather reports. Station notices* 9.15: Eugene Ormandy and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Symphony No. 2 in E Minor (Rachmaninoff). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 10.30: Selected recordings. 10.50: Evening prayer. 11.0: Close of normal programme.

4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c.

5.0: Children’s session. 6.15 (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News. 7.30: Talk, “Helpful Hints to Motorists.” 8.0: “JThe Bold Bad Buccaneers.” 8.15: “Ravenshoe.” 8.28: “Aloha Land.” 8.42: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 8.54: Roy Smeck and his Serenaders, “Seventeen” (Loesser); “Somebody Nobody Knows” (Green). 9.10: Weather reports. Station notices. 9.15: Victor Young and his Concert Orchestra. “To the Land of My Own Romance” (Smith). 9.18: “Soldier of Fortune.” 9.44: Charlie Kunz (piano), “Kunz Revivals,” No. 12. 9.50: Concerted voices with orchestra, “The Smoking Concert.” 9.53: Emil Roosz and his Orchestra, “Hear My Song, Violetta” (Klose). 10.0: Billy Cotton and his Band. 10.50: Evening prayer. 11.0: Close of normal programme.

Empire Broadcasts. The National Broadcasting Service will rebroadcast Daventry news or use recordings o£ Daventry news at the following New Zealand times:—G.O a.m., 7.0 a.m., 8.20 a.m. (summary), 9.15 a.m.; 12.30 p.m., 1.15 p.m. (main items of previous news), 545 p.m., 9 p.m., 11.0 p.m. On Sundays the noon transmission will be recorded from Daventry and rebroadcast at 1.10 p.m. Transmission 1 from Daventry, directed to Australia. New Zealand and the Far East, begins at 4.25 p.m., and closes down at 7.45 p.m. New Zealand time. Transmitters in operation are: GSB (31.55 m., 9.51 mc/s); GSD (25.53 m„ 11.75 mc/s); GSI (19.G6 m., 15.2 G mc/s); GSP (19.60 m„ 15.31 mc/s); GSI (19.GG m., 15.2 G mc/s. A full news bulletin is given at 5.45 p.m., and a news summary at 7.30 p.m. Additional news bulletins and summaries are broadcast from Daventry during the clay, most being receivable in New Zealand. For the convenience of readers who possess shortwave receivers a list of the times and most favourable frequencies for reception follow (New Zealand Standard Time): — 12.45 a.m (GSF, 19.82 m„ 15.14 mc/s.) 3.30 a.m (GSB, 31.55 m„ 9.51 mc/s.)

5.30 a.m. (GSD, 25.53 m., 11.75 mc/s.) 8.20 a.m. (GSC, 31.82 m.» 9.58 mc/s.) 9.15 a.m. (GSF, 10.82 m„ 15.14 mc/s.) Noon (GSE. 25.28 m.» 11.86 mc/s.) 2.15 p.m. (GSB, 31.55 m., 9.51 mc/s.) 3.30 p.m. (GSB, 31.55 m., 9.51 mc/s.) 11.0 p.m. (GSF, 19.82 m„ 15.14 mc/s.)-