OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 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: Time signals. Topical war talks from

the BBC. 8.0: “Radio Variety!” Featuring New Zealand

artists. 8.35: “Evergreens of Jazz.” 8.49: Te Mauri Meihana (soprano): A group

of Maori songs. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.14: Albert Sandler Trio. 9.20: Radio vocal solo recalls held in connection with the Wellington Competitions Society’s Festival. 9.35: The NBS String Orchestra (Conductor: Maurice Clare). “Les Vendredis.” Twen-ty-five minutes of music by various Russian composers. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Daventry news and recordings.

2YC, Wellington, r 840 k.c.

5.0-G.O p.m.: Recordings. 6.35: Signal.preparation for Air Force. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Chamber music hour. 9.0: The show goes on. 10.0: With the comedians. 10.30: Close down.

2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c.

7.0 p.m.: Premiere. 7.35: Plays for the People: “Poste Restante.” 7.48: Ensemble. 8.7: Thrills. 8.20: 2YD Singers. 8.40: “Dad and Dave.” 8.52: Console-ation. 9.5: Stories by Edgar Allan Poe. 9.30: Youth must have its swing. \ 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. 7.30: Winter Course Talk: “History for Everyman: Sir George Grey, Democratic Autocrat.” 8.0: “Hard Cash”: A dramatic radio presentation. 8.15: “Wandering With the West Wind.” 8.45: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: Music by British bands. 9.30: Interlude: “Dad and Dave.” 10.0: Ray Herbeck and his Music with Romance. 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. 8.0: “The Adventures of Marco Polo.” 8.12: Tommy Handley (vocal). 8.15: “The Mystery of a Hansom Cab” (final episode). 8.30: The Marshalls. 8.56: Tommy Handley (vocal). 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: Dance music. 11.0: Daventry news and recordings.

4YA, Dunedin 790 k.c.

5.0: Children’s session. 6.15 (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News. 7.30: Gardening talk. 8.0: 4YA Concert Orchestra (conducted by Gil Dech), “Les Preludes” Symphonic Poem (Liszt). 8.19: Ninon Vallin (soprano). 8.27: The Orchestra, “Tschaikovsky Fantasie” (arr. Foulds). 8.42:. Ninon Vallin (soprano). 8.51: The Orchestra, “Sea Pictures” (Elgar). 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. 9.21: Norman Walker (baritone). 9.29: Joseph Szigeti with the Orchestra of the Paris Conservatorium. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 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 the time of transmission ,and those with two asterisks are recorded and broadcast at the time stated.) 12.30 a.m. (GSF, 15.14 mc/s.) 3.30 a.m. (GSF, 15.14 mc/s.) 5.30 a.m. (GSF, 15.14 mc/s.) »* 6 & 7 a.m. 8.22 a.m. (GSF, 15.14 mc/s.) * 9.15 a.m. (GSF, 15.14 mc/s.) * 11.00 a.m. (GSF, 15.14 mc/s.) 12.30 p.m. (GSE, 11.86 mc/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, 11.86 mc/s.) • 7.30 p.m. (GSD, 11.86 mc/s.) *♦ 9.0 p.m. 11.30 p.m. (GSF, 1514 mc/s.) * (On Sundays the 12.30 p.m. news is not rebroadcast 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 tinues 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 are:—GSß (31.55 m., 9.5 mc/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.).