OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 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 and reports. 7.28: Time signals. 7.40: Talk, Gardening Expert. 8.0: Marek Weber and his Orchestra. 8.9: Owen Bonifant (tenor), sings from the studio, “The Vagabond,” “Bright Is the Ring of Words,” “The Roadside Fire” (Vaughan Williams). 8.18: The Orchestra. 8.29: “Anchored,” presented by the Columbia Dramatic Players. 8.37: “Three English Dances,” New Light Symphony Orchestra (Quilter). 8.46: Studio recital by Molly Atkinson (mez-zo-soprano), “A Song of Thanksgiving” (Frances Allitsen); “London Song” (Esther Rofe); “So We’ll Go No More ARoving” (Maude V. White); “The Dawn Sprite” (Olive Turner); “The Gate of the Year” (Peggy Spencer Palmer). 9.5 (approx.): Evening Prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: “The First Great Churchill.” 9.40: “Anything Goes” (Cole Porter). 9.46: “The Woman in Black,” episode 8. 10.10: Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights. 11.0: News and recordings.

2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0-6.0: Tunes for the tea table. 6.35: Signal preparation for Air Force. 7.0: After-dinner, music. 8.0: Classical recitals. 8.40: Orchestral masterpieces. 10.0: Sydney Torch (organ), Essie Ackland (contralto), Barnabas von Geczy and his Orchestra. 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.ot Cleopatra.” 9.30: Night Club. 10.0: Close down. IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.15 (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Book review. 8.0: Lener String Quartet. 8.22: Studio recital by Gwen Salmon (soprano)', “The Lane of the Thrushes” and “Lullaby” (Hamilton Harty); “Philomel” (Julius Harrison); "Orpheus With His Lute” (Vaughan Williams). 8.32: Studio recital by Winifred Hayes (violin), Lois Walls (viola) and John Tait (piano). 9.5 (approx.): Evening Prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: Oscar Natzke (bass), “OF Man River” (Kern); “Song of the Volga Boatmen” (arr. Koeneman). 9.23: Yehudi Menuhin (violin). 9.31: Deanna Durbin (soprano). 9.35: Alexander Brailowsky (piano). 9.45: Joan and Betty Rayner, New Zealand entertainers. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 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: Addington stock market report. 7.32: Winter Course discussion, “Things as Seen by an Art Teacher.” 8.0: Readings, “The Fall of the Nibelungs.” 8.22: Theodore Scheid! (baritone). 8.28: Organ re-: cital by .Dr. J. C. Bradshaw. 8.48: William Turner’s Ladies’ Choir. 9.5 (approx.): Evening Prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: “Music From the Theatre.” 9.42: Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: News and recordings. 4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c. 5.0: Children's session. G. 15 (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Book talk. 8.0: “The Bold Bad Buccaneers.” 8.15: “Ravenshoe.” 8.28: “Aloha Land.” 8.42: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 8.54: “Kunz Revivals.” 9.5 (approx.): Evening Prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: Relay of Patriotic Concert. 10.0 (approx.): Ray Herbeck and his Music with Romance. 11.0: 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 racorded 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. (GSI, 15.26 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 and Australia, begins at 4.27 p.m., and continues till the close of the news summary given at 7.30 p.m. Transmitters in operation are:—-GSB (31.55 m., 9.5 mc/s.), GSD (28.53 m., 11.86 mc/s.), GSF (19.82 m„ 15.14 mc/s,), GSI (19.G6 m., 15.2 G mc/s.), and Cfrom 5.45 p.m.) GSP (19.G0 m., 15.31 mc/s.). An item of special interest in today’s programme is: "Week by Week,” talk by Clemence Dane, at 7.15 p.m.