OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1940, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES

2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. G. 15 (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News. 7.28: Time signals. 7.40: Talk, by the Gardening Expert. 8.0: Music by Popular Composers Series: No.

5, Haydn Wood. 8.22: Studio recital by Julie Worry (soprano). “Spring Song” (Bantock); “When I Have Sung My Songs” (Charles) “The Cunnin’ Little Thing” (Hageman); “Shepherd’s Cradle Song” (Somervell i; “Spirit o£ Life” (Dichmont). 8.34: Dance recordings. 8.42: Songs of the Open. 9.0: Daventry news, followed by Evening

Prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: “The First Great Churchill.” The romantic story of Winston Churchill’s famous ancestor, John, First Lord Marlborough. 9.40: Hits from “Top Hat” (Berlin). 9.48: “The Woman in Black” (sixth episode). 10.0: Abe Lyman and his Californians. 11.0: Daventry news and recordings. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0-G.O: Recordings. G. 35: Signal preparation for Air Force. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: At the opera. 8.40: Concerto programme, featuring at 9.0. , Artur Schnabel (piano) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, playing “Concerto No. 2, Op. 19” (Beethoven). 10.0: Recordings. 10.30: Close down.

2YD, Wellington 990 k.c.

7.0: Cocktails. 7.35: “Here’s a Queer Thing.” 7.45: Musical digest. 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.

1 YA,s Auckland G5O k.c.

5.0: Children's session. 6.15 (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News. 7.30: Book review. 8.0: The Lener String Quartet, with Charles Draper (clarinet). 8.22: Studio recital by Dorothy Simonsen (mezzosoprano), “Silent Moon” (Vaughan Williams): "Foxgloves” (Michael Head): “The Cloths of Heaven” (Dunhill); “The Shepherd’s Song” (Elgar. 8.34: Studio Recital by Lois Walls (viola), Lalla Hemus (’cello) and Dora Judson (piano). Trio in A Minor, Opus 114 (Brahms). 8.56: John Brownlee (baritone). 9.0: Daventry news, followed by Evening Prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: The Marshalls. 9.42: London Palladium Orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Daventry news and recordings.

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, “Things as Seen by a Painter,” by Sydney L. Thompson and F. A. Shurrock. 8.0: “Poems by William Blake.” 8.22: Mark Raphael (baritone), in two songs by Sheley, “Music When Soft Voices Die.” “Love’s Philosophy” (Quilter). 8.26: Organ recital by Dr. J. C. Bradshaw. 8.46: Studio Recital by Madame Elsie Betts-Vincent (piano), "Three Cuban Dances” (Cervantes); “Arabeske” (Lechetizkyl: “Barcarolle" (Liadov); “Naila Waltz” (Delibes). 9.0: Daventry news, followed by Evening Prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: “Music From the Theatre”; “Aurora’s Wedding.” to the music of Tschaikovsky). 9.46: Wanda Landowska (harpsichord), and Orchestra. 10.2: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Daventry news and recordings.

4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c.

5.0: Children’s session. 6.15 (approx.): Dinnre music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News. 7.30: Book talk. 8.0: "The Bold Bad Buccaneers.” 8.15: “Ravenshoe.” A dramatic veri sion of Henry Kingsley’s great story. 8.28:

Recordings. 8.42: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 8.54: Ambrose and his Orchestra. 9.0: Daventry news, followed by Evening Prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: Reginald Foort (organ). 9.18: “Soldier of Fortune.” 9.44: Variety. 10.0: Kay Kyser and his Orchestra. 11.0: Daventry news and recordings. Empire Broadcasts. News bulletins and news summaries are broadcast daily from Daventry transmitters at the following times, most being receivable in New Zealand. (Those marked with an asterisk are rebroadcast by the National Broadcasting Service at (he time of transmission .and those with two asterisks are recorded and broadcast at the time slated.) 12.80 a.m. (GSF. 15.14 mc/s. I 3.30 a.m. (GSF. 15.14 mc/s.) 5.30 a.m. (GSF. 15.14 ute/s.l 6 & 7 a.m. 11.22 a.m. (GSF. 15.14 mc/s.) * 9.15 a.m. (GSF. 15.14 me/s.) * 11.00 a.m. (GSF. 15.14 mc/s.) 12.30 p.m. (GSF. 11.8(1 me/s.) • * ** 1.15 p.m. 2.00 p.m. (GSB. 9.51 mc/s.) 4.00 p.m. (GSB, 9.51 mc/s.) 5.45 p.m. (GSD. 11.8(1 mc/s.) * I 7.30 p.m. (GSD. 11.86 me/s.) ** 9.0 p.m. 11.30 p.m. (GSF, 1514 mc/s.) * (On Sundays the 12.30 p.m. news is not rebroadeast at the time of transmission, but a recording is broadcast at 1.10 p.m.) The transmission from Daventry. directed specially toward New Zealand. Oceania Unites till the close of the news summary and Australia, begins at 4.27 p.m.. and congiven at 7.30 p.m. Transmitters in operation arc: —GSB 131.55 in., 9.5 me/s.). GSD (25.53 m., 11.86 mc/s.), GSF (19.82 m„ 15.14 mc/s.), GSI (19.66 m.. 15.26 mc/s.), and (from 5.45 p.m.) GSP (19.60 m.. 15.31 mc/s.l.