OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1940, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: Local news. 7.28: Time signals. 7.30: “An Appeal by Commissioner Evan Smith. Music by Handel. The London Symphony Orchestra, John McCormack | (tenor). Hastings Municipal Orchestra. The Leeds Festival Choir. Temianka (violinist), Malcolm McEachern (bass). The 8.8. C. Choral Society. 8.0: Concert by the Wellington Symphony Orchestra. Conductor, Leon de Mauny. Solo pianist, Anderson Tyrer (relayed from Town Hall). “Allegro Con Fuoco,” from Symphony No. 4 in F Minor (Tchaikovski) ; “Serenade Espagnole” (Glazounov); Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 (Rachmaninoff). 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.20: “William Tell” Overture (Rossini); Two pieces from the Peer Gynt Suite (Grieg), (a) “The Death of Ase,” (b) “Anitra’s Dance,’ “Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16” (Grieg). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: News, followed by Meditation Music. 11.30: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0: Tunes for the tea-table. 6.0: Musical menu. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: “Radio Revue.’ 9.30: “Keep Xt Dark,” programme featuring famous negro artists. 10.0-10.25: Signal preparation for Air Force. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 840 k.c. 7.0: Ragtime marches on. 7.35: “A Gentleman Rider.” 7.47: Musical melange. 8.10: “The Life of Henry VIII.” 8.48: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 9.0: The Kingsmen. , 9.15: “Ports of Call: Wales.” 9.45: Fanfare. 10.0: Close down. IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.5.: Weather. 7.0: Local news. 7.10: Talk by the Gardening Expert. 7.30: The Blue Hungarian Band. 7.38: “One Good Deed a Day.” 7.51: Yvonne Printemps (soprano) and Paul Fresnay (tenor). 8.3: Evergreens of Jazz. 8.16: Jack Warner (comedian). 8.22: Sidney Torch (organ). 8.28: “The First Great Churchill.” 8.57 :■ Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. newsreel. 9.20: Victor Young and Concert Orchestra. 9.23: Turner Layton (light vocal). 9.26: Victor Young and Concert Orchestra. 9.30: Dance music. 11.0: News, followed by Meditation Music. 11.30: Close down. 3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather. 7.0: Local news. 7.15: Book review by Miss G. M. Glanville. 7.30: London Symphony Orchestra. 7.39: “Dad and Dave.” 7.51: The Bohemian Light Orchestra, and from the studio, Edna Henderson (mezzosoprano’. 8.14: “Silas Marner” (final episode). 8.27: Xavier Cugat Orchestra. 8.42: “The Buccaneers of the Pirate Ship ‘Vulture’.” 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.20: Bloy’s Banjo Sextet. 9.34: Band music. 10.0: Frankie Masters and his orchestra. 11.0: News, followed by Meditation Music. 11.30: Close down. 4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather. 7.0: Local news. 7.30: The London Chamber Orchestra. 7.40: Winter Course talk by Prof. T. D. Adams, “Euripides, the Forerunner of Modern Drama.” 8.0: Recorded band programme and studio recital by Edna McLean (soprano), (Interlude). 8.24: Arthur Young and Reginald Foresythe (piano). 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.20: “Coronets of England: The Life of Henry VIII.” 9.46: “The Theatre Box”: Drama in a dance hall. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: News, followed by Meditation Music. 11.30: Close down. Empire Broadcasts. News and news commentaries, often followed by topical talks, will be broadcast from Daventry transmitters as specified in the following list. (Those marked with one asterisk will be relayed by the National Broadcasting Service at the time of transmission, and those with two asterisks will be recorded and rebroadcast at the time stated after the asterisks.) The list is corrected to New Zealand Summer Time. 1.00 a.m. (GSV, 17.81 mc/s) 4.00 a.m. (GSF, 15.14 mc/s) 6.00 a.m. (GSI, 15.26 mc/s) • and »’ 7 a.m. 8.45 a.m. (GSI, 15.26 mc/s) » 11.00 a.m. (GSI, 15.26 mc/s) f 1.00 p.m. (GSD, 15.14 mc/s) •’ 1.15 p.m. 1.45 p.m. (GSC, 9.58 mc/s) 3.30 p.m. (GSC, 9.58 mc/s) 4.30 p.m. (GSC, 9.58 mc/s) 6.15 p.m. (GSB, 9.51 mc/s) * 8.30 p.m. (GSD. 11.86 mc/s) » ! ' 9 p.m. 9.45 p.m. (GSI, 15.26 mc/s) 11.00 p.m. (GSP, 15.31 mc/s) * The Pacific transmission now extends from 0.10 p.m. to 10.5 p.m., and will be receivable on the following transmitters:—GSC (31.32 m., 9.58 mc/s), GSB (31.55 m„ 9.51 mc/s), GSE (25.59 m., 11.86 mc/s), GSD (25.53 m.. 11.75 mc/s) till 8.45 p.m., GSF (19.82 m., 15.14 mc/s) from 9 p.m., GSI (19.66 m., 15.26 mc/s) and GSP (19.60 m„ 15.31 mc/s). Items of interest in today’s programme are: “Calling Australia," talk at 8.15 p.m., and “Matters of Moment,” talk at 9 p.m.