OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1940, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

’ TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. ' 2YA, Wellington. r 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 6.15 (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News and reports. 7.28: Time signals. / 7.40: Talk, Motoring Expert. 8.0: Concert by the N.B.S. String Orchestra (conductor, Maurice Clare), “Concerti Grossi” Series (No. 4) (Handel); “Octet 5 in E Flat Major” (Mendelssohn); “Simple Symphony” (Benjamin Britten). ’ 9.0: Weather reports and station notices. 9.10: Studio recital by Winifred Bourke (pianist), “Bourees” 1 and 2 (Bach); “Ye Sweet Retreat” (Boyce); “Why Aske ■ You?” “Siciliano and Hornpipe” (Purcell); “Aire” (Greene); “Minuette with ; Variations” (Arne). 9.23: Songs by Handel: “Honour and Arms” (from “Samson”); “Arm, Arm, Ye Brave” (from Judas Maccabeus”) (Malcolm McEachern, bass). 9.31: Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Symphony Orchestra. 9.43: Miliza Korjus (soprano). 9.51: The Boston Promenade Orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: News and recordings. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0-G.O: Tunes for the tea table. 6.35: Signal preparation for Air Force. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Popular programme. 9.0: Ballad recitals, with instrumental interludes. 10.0: Merry and bright. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0: Ragtime marches on! 7.35: A Gentleman Rider”: A story by Nat Gould. 7.47: Musical melange. 8.10: “The Life of Henry VIJI.” 8.40: Accordiana. 8.48: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 9.0: The Kingsmen. 9.15: “Ports of Call: Scotland.” 9.45: Fanfare. 10.0: Close down. IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 6.15: Dinner music. ; 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Talk, Gardening Expert. 8.0: Alfredo | Campoli and his Salon Orchestra. 8.5: “One I Good Deed a Day.” 8.17: “Evergreens of i Jazz.” 8.30: “Night Nurse.” 8.43: “Nigger Minstrels.” 8.56: Alfredo Campoli and his | Salon Orchestra. 9.0: Weather reports and , station notices. 9.10: Dance music. 11.0: | 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 and reports. 7.20: Talk by George Bagley, “Personalities and Places in the News.” 7.35: Talk under the auspices of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association. 8.0: New Light Symphony Orchestra. 8.9: “Silas Marner,” adaptation of George Eliot’s great classic. 8.22: Viennese Waltz Orchestra. 8.26: Irene Macdonald (contralto), “Aminte” (Weckerlin); “La Vie” (Rae); “Petronillc” (Weckerlin); “Si vous I’aviez compris” (Denza)). 8.38: Viennese Waltz Orchestra. 8.43: Edith Lorand her Viennese Orchestra. 8.46: “The Buccaneers of the Pirate Ship Vulture.” 9.0: Weather reports and station notices. 9.10: “The Shadow of the Swastika: The Road to | War.” 10.0: Abe Lyman and his Californians. | 11.0: News and recordings. f

4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c. i s 5.0: Children’s session. 6.15 (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Winter Course Talk, Dr. K. J. Sheen, “Horace and the Augustan Age.” ’ 8.0: The Kaikorai Band. 8.13: Jean McLay (contralto), “Valley of Laughter” (Sander- 1 son); “The Long Avenue” (Molloy). 8.19: The Band. 8.26: “Cinderella” Burlesque Pan- = tomime. 8.34: The Band. 8.43: Jean McLay, “Here’s to Love” (Rubens); “The Sundown Sea” (Steckel). 8.49: The Band. 9.0: Weather reports and station notices. 9.13: “Coronets of England: The Life of Henry VIII.” $ 9.39: “The Theatre Box.” 9.55: Selection ’ from “Snow White.” 10.0: Music, mirth and 1 melody. 11.0: News and recordings. [. ■ - Empire Broadcasts. News bulletins and news summaries are * broadcast daily from Daventry transmitters 1 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.j • I . 11.00 a.m. (GSF, 15.14 mc/s.) j 12.30 p.m. (GSE, 11.86 mc/s.) * & 1.15 p.m. I 2.00 p.m. (GSB, 9.51 mc/s.) ■ 4.00 p.m. (GSB, 9.51 mc/s.) j 5.45 p.m. (GSD, 11.86 mc/s.) * i 7.30 p.m. (GSD, 11.86 mc/s.) •• 9.0 p.m. | 11.30 p.m. (GSI, 15.26 mc/s.) * £ (On Sundays the 12.30 p.m. news is not E rebroadcast at the time of transmis- | sion, but a recording is broadcast at | 1.10 p.m.) £ The transmission from Daventry, directed g specially toward New Zealand, Oceania | and Australia, begins at 4.27 p.m., and con- | tinues till the close of the news summary I given at 7.30 p.m. Transmitters in opera- a tion 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.mJ GSP (19.60 m., 15.31 mc/s.). An item of special interest in today’s programme is: -I “An American Looks at Britain,” talk i by Warren Irwin, at 7.15 p.m. |