OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1940, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMME. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner session. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: Local news. 7.15: “Britain Speaks.” 7.28: Time signals. 7.30: ■ “Background of N.Z. Sport.” by L. R. Palmer. 7.45: Manchester Children’s Choir; La Scala Orchestra. 8.0: Concertgebouw Trio of Amsterdam. 8.8: Elsie Suddaby. 3.14: The Budapest String Quartet and Benny Goodman (clarinet). 8.38: Heinrich Rehkemper (baritone). 8.41: Zillah Castle (violinist) and Dorothy Davies (pianist) present from the studio. Sonata No. 2 (Delius). 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.20: “A Lady of Fifty-six.” A radio play by W. Graeme Holder, produced by the N.B.S. 9.54: Leslie James (organ). 10.0: Lauri Paddi’s Ballroom Orchestra. 11.0: News, followed by meditation music. 11.30: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5 p.m.: Tunes for the teatable. 6.0: Musical menu. 7.0: After-dinner music." 8.0: Band programme. 9.0: Variety show. 9.40: ‘The Circle of Shiva.” 9.53: Recorded interlude. 10.0-10.25: Signal preparation for Air Force. 10.30: Close clown. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7 p.m: Rhapsodies in rhythm. 7.35: “Greyburn of the Salween.” 7.47: Sing as we go. 8.15: “The Hunchback of Ben All.’ 8.28: Musical odds and ends. 9.3: “Marie Antoinette.” 9.15: Piano personalities. 9.30: The Old-time The-Ayter. 9.42: South American music. 10.0: Close down.

IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c.

s.o:"Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather. 7.0: Local news. 7.15: “Supplementary Fodder Crops for the King Country,” by’ K. M. Montgomery, Fields Instructor, Department of Agriculture, Te Kuiti. 7.30: Opera House Orchestra. 7.40: “Singapore Spy.” 8.6: London Palladium Orchestra. 8.14: “Thrills.* 8.27: Tino Rossi (tenor). 8.33: “Ravenshoe,” a dramatisation of the novel by Henry Kingsley. 8.40: The Salon Orchestra. 8.57: Weather - reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.20: Ringside commentary on professional wrestling match. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 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. 7.10: Talk by the Garden Expert. 7.30! Band programme, with interludes by Nelson Eddy (baritone). 8.0: Concert by the Christchurch Liedertafel (conductor. Victor Peters); anthem; male quartet and chorus; part songs by Elgar; and songs from Elgar’s “Fringes of the Fleet.” 8.57: Weather reports an! station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.20: The Reginald Paul Piano Quartet. 9.48: Kirsten Flagstad (soprano). 9.s2:Frederick Thurston (clarinet). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 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. 7.10: Talk by a Dunedin barrister, “Famous Cases.” 7.30: The London Chamber Orchestra. 7.40: William Heseltine (tenor). 7.48: Cyril Scott (piano). 7.54: Cedric Sharpe (sextet). 8.0: Masterpieces of music with thematic illustrations and comments by Prof. V. E. Galway, Mus. D. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 54 (Schumann). 8.40: The Russian State Choir. 8.48: Edith Lorand Trio. 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.23: “The Twelve Labours of Hercules”: “The Stag of Cerynea.” 9.56: Arthur Young (novachord) and Fela Sowande (organ). 10.0: Hal Kemp and his Orchestra. 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 today and tomorrow as specified in the following list. (Those marked with one asterisk will be relayed by the principal stations of 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 correct to New Zealand Summer Time. .1.00 a.m. (GSV, 17.81 mc/s) 4.00 a.rn. (GSB, 9.51 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. (GSF, 15.14 mc/s) 1.00 p.m. (GSD, 15.14 mc/s) ** 1.15 p.m. 1.45 p.m. (GSD, 11.75 mc/s) 3.30 p.m. (GSC, 9.58 mc/s) 4.30 p.m. (GSC, 9.58 mc/s) 6.15 p.m. (GSE. 11.86 mc/s) 8.30 p.m. (GSD, 11.8 G mc/s) *♦ 9 p.m. 9.45 p.m. (GSI, 15.26 mc/s) 11.00 p.m. (GSV, 17.81 mc/s) The Pacific transmission now extends from 6.10 p.m. to 10.15 p.m. and will be receiveablo on the following transmitters: GSC (31.32 m., 9.58 mc/s) till 8.0 p.m., GSB (31.55 m., 9.51 mc/s) till 8.45 p.m., GSE (25.59 m., 11.86 mc/s), GSD (25.53 m., 11.75 mc/s), GSF (19.82 m., 15.14 mc/s) from 9 p.m., GSI (19.66 m., 15.26 mc/s), GSP (19.60 m., 15.31 mc/s), and GSV (16.84 m., 17.81 mc/s). Items of interest in today’s programme arc: “Calling Nev/ Zealand/ talk at 7.30 p.m., and “The People of Britain,” talk at 9 p.m. Also, at 9.45 p.m., a special rebroadcast for the Pacific Zone, of an address to the Children of the Empire by Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, delivered earlier in the day.