OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1940, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT'S PROGRAMME. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. . 0.55: Weather. 7.0: Local news, “Placing Secondary School Boys on Farms in the Holidays.” 7.15: “Britain Speaks.” 7.28: Time signals. 7.30: Reserved. 7.45: “The Gloom Chasers”: Laughs with Bobby Comber and Company. 8.0: “Funzapoppin’.” 8.31: “I Pulled Out a Plum,” by “Gramofan.” 8.51: “Evergreen” Selection (Woods). 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.20: The Band of St. Hilda Colliery. 9.37: “Meek’s Antiques”: The Mad Marquis. 9.40: Massed Bands. 10.0: “Rhythm on Record.” by “Turntable.” 11.0: News, followed by meditation music. 11.30: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0 p.m.: Tunes for the teatable. 0.0: Musical menu. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: “The Spirit of London.” Songs and melodies of the great metropolis. 9.0: Chamber music hour. 10.0-10.25: Signal preparation for Air Force. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0 p.m.: Showmen of syncopation. 7.35: People in pictures. 8.5: Musical digest. 8.33: Carson Robison and his Buckaroos. 8.45: “Thaddeus Brown: Retired.” 9.12: Medliana. 9.45: Tattoo. 10.0: Close down. IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather. 7.0: Local news. 7.15: Sports talk by Gordon Hutter. 7.30: 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestra. 7.44: Studio recital by James Leighton (baritone). 7.5 G: Leopold Stokowski, with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. 8.37: Lotte Lehmann (soprano). 8.40: Frederick Grinke (violin), with the Boyd Neel Orchestra. 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.20: John McCormack (tenor). 9.26: Sergei Rachmaninoff (soloist) and the Philadelphia Orchestra. 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. 7.15: Talk, under the auspices of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, “The Waimakariri River and its Control.” 7.30: “Fire Bird,” to the music of Stravinsky. 7.55 to 8.55 p.m.: Programme from Russian composers by 3YA Orchestra (conductor, Will Hutchens, Mus. Bac.) and Alison Cordery (soprano), with interludes: 8.15. Alexander Borowsky (piano); 8.21 and 8.28, Alison Cordery; 8.36, Dr. Geoffrey Shaw (piano). 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.20: Edith Lorand and her Viennese Orchestra; and Beatrice Hall (contralto) from the studio. 9.48: The Buccaneers Octet. 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. .55: Weather. 7.0: Local news. 7.12: “What Shall We Eat?”: “Facing the Facts.” Recorded‘talk by Dr. Elizabeth Bryson. 7.30: “Viktoria and Her Hussar” Selection (Abrahams). 7.40: “Dad and Dave.” 7.53: “Rhumba Rhythms and Tango Tunes.” 8.8: “Do You Know Why?” by Autolycus. 8.14: Variety. 8.44: “The Circle of Shiva.” 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.20: The International Singers (male chorus). 9.26: Ernest Ansermet and the Decca String Orchestra. 9.30: Readings by Prof. T. D. Adams, “Trees.” 10.0: Dance music by Dick Colvin and his Music. 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 al 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.m. (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, 11.86 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 receivable 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 I, GSF (19.82 m., 15.14 mc/s) from 9 p.m., GSI 119.66 m.. 15.26 mc/s). GSP 119.60 m., 15.31 mc/s). and GSV (16.84 m., 17.81 mc/s) from 8.15 p.m. Items of interest in today’s programme are: “New Zealand Newsletter,” at 7.30 p.m., and “In My Opinion," talk at 9.0 p.m.