OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 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 to 7.30: Time signals. 7.40: Talk lor the home gardener. 8.0: Music by Popular Composers Series (No. 4): Coleridge-Taylor, (a) The 2YA Concert Orchestra, conducted by Leon de Manny, “Hiawatha Ballet Music”; lb) Walter Glynne (tenor), “Onaway! Awake Beloved.” 8.24: The Orchestra. “Jolly Robbers” Overture (Suppe); “A Hunting Scene” (Bucalossi). 8.37: Hilda Noble (contralto), “Morning” (Speaks); “Thoughts” (Fisher); “I Heard . a Forest Praying” (De Rose); “Achal by the Sea” (Laurence). 8.49: The Orchestra, “Mystic Beauty” Veil Dance (Finck); “Through Night to Light” (Jaukien). 9.0: Daventry news. Evening prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: "The First Great Churchill.” 9.40: “From the Shows.” 9.48: “The Woman in Black,” Episode 5. 10.0: Jan Savitt and His Tophatters. 11.0: Close of normal programme.

2YC, Wellington 840 k.c.

5.0-6.0: Recordings. 6.45: Signal preparation for Air Force. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Vocal and instrumental works. 8.40: Symphonic programme, featuring at 9.0 the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, playing “Symphony No. 5 in C Minor” (Beethoven) . 10.0: Variety calling. 10.30: Close down.

2YD, Wellington 990 k.c.

7.0: Cocktails. 7.35: “Here’s a Queer Thing.” 7.45: The Kingsmen. 7.57: Musical digest. 8.15: “The Adventures of Marco Polo.” 8.28: Solo artist’s 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: The Busch String Quartet, Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51 (Brahms). 8.34: James Leighton (baritone), “The Old Bard's Song” (Roughton) ; “The Pibroch" (Stanford); “Silver” (Armstrong Gibbs); “Full Fathom Five” (Martin Shaw). 8.48: Frederick Grinke (violin) and Watson Forbes (viola), “Sarabande with Variations” (Handel, arr. Halvorsen). 8.54: Elena Gerhardt (mezzo-soprano), “Verborgenheit” (Strauss); “Wohin” (Schubert). 9.0: Daventry news. Evening prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: The Marshalls. 9.42: “Three Months Prisoners on the Altmark.” 9.51: Gracie Fields. 9.54: Louis Levy and his orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 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 by F. A. Shurrock and L. H. Booth: “Things as Seen by a Sculptor.” 8.0: Readings by O. L. Simmanee. “Midnight Adventure,” by J. Jefferson Farjeon. 8.22: Oscar Natzke (bass). “The Song of Hybrias the Cretan” (Elliott); “Hear Me Ye Winds and Waves” (Handel). 8.29: “The Mist of the Years.” 9.0: Daventry news. Evening prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: Ringside description of professional wrestling contest (relayed from the Theatre Royal). 10.30 (approx.): Music, mirth and melody. 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: “The Bold Bad Buccaneers.” 8.15: “Ravenshoe.” 8.28: “Aloha Land.” 8.42: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s,” 8.54: Muriel Caddie Novelettes Trio from the Studio. 9.0: Daventry news. Evening prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: Muriel Caddie Novelettes Trio. 9.23: “Soldier of Fortune.” 10.0: Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians. 11.0: Close of normal programme.

Empire Broadcasts. The National Broadcasting Service will rebroadcast Daventry news or use recordings of Daventry news at the following New Zealand times:—6.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), 5.45 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 (25.23 m„ 11.75 mc/s.); GSF (19.82 m. 15.14 mc/s.); GSI (19.66 m., 12.26 mc/s.); GSP (19.60 m., 15.31 mc/s.). A full news bulletin is given at 5.45 p.m., and a news summary at 7.30 p.m.

I Additional news bulletins and summaries are broadcast from Daventry during the day, 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) •—

iouow (new z.c 12.30 a.m aianci stanaara (GSF, 19.82 m., rime) 15.14 mc/s.) 3.30 a.m (GSF, 19.82 m., 15.14 mc/s.) 5.30 a.m (GSD, 25,53 m., 11.75 mc/s.) 3.20 a.m (GSC, 31.82 m„ 9.58 mc/s.) 9.15 a.m (GSF, 19.82 m., 15.14 mc/s.) 11.15 a.m (GSE, 25.28 m. 11.86 mc/s.) 12.30 p.m (GSE, 25.28 m„ 11.86 mc/s.) 2 p.m . (GSB, 31.55 m. 9.51 mc/s.) 11.0 p.m (GSF, 19.82 m„ 15.14 mc/s.)