OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children's session. 0.15 (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News. 7.10: News and reports. 7.28: Time signals. 7.30: “Who’s Who and What's What?" by

“Coranto.” 8.0: “The Mikado.” A special radio presentation of the popular Gilbert and Sullivan Opera. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: Continuation of “The Mikado.” 10.0: “Rhythm on Record.” 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: "Every Friday Night at Eight.” The Rhythm Makers. 8.30: “I Pulled Out a Plum,” by “Gramo-

fan.” A selection of the latest records. 9.0: Sonata hour. 10.0: Melody and humour. 10.30: Close down.

2YD, Wellington 990 k.c.

7.0: Showmen of syncopation. 7.35: People in Pictures. 8.5: Musical digest. 8.28: Carson Robison and his Buckaroos 8.45: Tales of the Silver Greyhound. 9.12: Medliana. 9.45: Tattoo. 10.0: Close down.

IYA, Auckland 650 k.c.

5.0: Children’s session. G. 15 (approx.): Dinner music. G. 55: Weather reports. 7.0: News. 7.10: News and reports. 7.30: Sports talk by Gordon Hutter. 8.0: The Studio Orchestra, conducted by Harold Baxter, “Suite of English Folk Songs” (Vaughan Williams). 8.9: “The Shadow of the Swastika: The Nazis at War.” 8.51: The Studio Orchestra, “The Swan of Tuonela” (Sibelius). 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: “Music from the Theatre”: “Swan Lake” to the music of Tschaikovsky. 9.44: Heddle Nash (tenor). 9.48: The Studio Orchestra, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Overture (Mendelssohn). 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. 8.0: Benno Moiseiwitsch, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 (Rachmaninoff). 8.34: Studio Recital by Vera Martin (contralto), “Songs by Schumann,” “More Fair and Pure and Holy,” “A Night in Spring,” “Moonlight," “Ladybird,” “The Lotus Flower.” 8.48: Recorded piano recital by Alfred Cortot. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: Rosario Bourdon Symphony Orchestra, "Golliwog’s Cake Walk” (Debussy); “Serenade" (Pierne). 9.21: Studio recital by Rita Simpson (soprano). “A Blackbird’s Song” (Sanderson); “The Things I Tell My Mother” (Besley); “Dainty Little Maiden” (Somervell); “Fairy Schoon” (Brewer). 9.32: The Orchestra, “Czardas” (Strauss); “Pepita,” “Blue Grass” (Bourdon). 9.43: The Buccaneers Octet, “That’s Why Darkies Were Born” (Henderson); “The Trumpeter” (Dix); “I Sing” (Paisley); “Turn Ye to Me” (Old Scotch melody). 9.56: The Orchestra. “March Automatique” (Bourdon); “Bolero" (Pollack). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 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: “The Meaning of Words,” by Prof. Arnold Wall. 7.50: “Do You Know Why?” by Autol'ycus. 8.0: “Dad and Dave.” 8.15: The Kingsmen. 8.28: “The Circle of Shiva.” 8.41: Recordings. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: The 8.8. C. Wireless Singers. 9.21: Philadelphia Orchestra. 9.30: Readings, by Prof. T. D .Adams, with musical interludes. 10.0: Dance music by Dick Colvin and his Music. 11.0: Daventry’ news and recordings.

Empire Broadcasts. An item of special interest in today’s programme is: “An American Looks at Britain.” Talk by Warren Irvin. 5.0 p.m.