OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1940, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMME. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather. 7.0: Local. 7.15: “Britain Speaks.” 7.28: Time signals. 7.30: Talk on reclamation of the Opiki Swamps, by members of Opiki Young Farmers’ Club. 7.45: Music by Schubert. 8.2: A concert by the N.B.S. String Orchestra (conductor, Maurice Clare); soloist, Hilda Chudley (contralto). 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. nwesreel. 9.15: 8.8. C. news commentary by Vernon Bartlett, M.P. 9.25: Symphonic programme. 10.0: Music, mitrh and melody. 11.0: News, followed by meditation music, 11.30: Close down.

2YC, Wellington. 840 k.e. 5.0 p.m.: Tunes for the tea-table. 6.0: Musical menu. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Popular stars. 9.0: “The Story of an Artist.” 9.12: Piano varieties. 9.45: Let’s laugh. 10.0-10.25: Signal preparation for Air Force. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0 p.m.: Ragtime marches on. 7.35: “A Gentleman Rider.” 7.47: Musical melange. 8.10: “Marie Antoinette.” 8.35: Soft lights and sweet music. 8.50: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 9.2: The Kingsmen. 9.15: Ports of Call: Russia. 9.45: Fanfare. 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. 7.10: Talk by the gardening expert. 7.30: Ralph Reader. 7.38: “One Good Deed a Day.” 7.51: Lani Mclntire and his Hawaiians. 7.57: The Ranch Boys. 8.3: “Evergreens of Jazz.” 8.16: Charlie Kunz (piano). 8.22: Alfred Piccaver (tenor). 8.28: “The First Great Churchill.” 8.53: Sidney Torch (organ). 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. newsreel. 9.15: 8.8. C. news commentary by Vernon Bartlett, M.P. 9.25: Les Allen and his Canadian Bachelors. 9.30: Dance music. 11.0: News, followed by meditation music. 11.30: Cloes down.

3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. I 6.55: Weather. 7.0: Local news. 7.15: Book review by H. Winston Rhodes. 7.30: Jack Payne and his 8.8. C. Dance Orchestra. 7.39: “Dad and Dave.” 7.52: Harry Horlick and his Salon Orchestra. 7.58: From the studio: “Song Pictures” by May Brahe, sung by Vera Martin (contralto). 8.11: Harry Horlick and his Salon Orchestra. 8.14: “A Gentleman Rider.” 8.28: Richard Liebert (organist) and The Dreamers. 8.42: "The Buccaneers of the Pirate Ship Vulture.” 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. newsreel. 9.15: 8.8. C. news commentray, by Vernon Bartlett, M.P. 9.25: Musical comedy memories. 10.0: Glen Gray and the Casa Loma 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. 7.13: Recorded talk by Professor Arnold Wall, “Beginnings.” 7.30: The London Palladium Orchestra. 7.40: John Moffett, “Fashions, Ancient and Modern”: “Means of Travelling.” 8.0: A recorded band programme, with interludes from the studio by Dorothy Barron (soprano). 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. newsreel. 9.15: 8.8. C. News Commentary by Vernon Bartlett, M.P. 9.25: “Coronets of England”: “The Life of Henry VIII.” 9.51: Freddie Gardiner (saxophone). 9.54: “Do You Know Why?” by “Autolycus.” 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 today and tomorrow as specified in the following list. (Those marked with an 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 corrected to New Zealand Summer Time. 1.00 a.m. GSV (17.81 mc/s) 4.00 a.m. GSB ( 9.51 mc/s) 0.00 a.m. GSI (15.26 mc/s) * and ** 7 a.m. 8.45 a.m. GSI (15.20 mc/s) » 11.00 a.m. GSF (15.14 mc/s) 1.00 p.m. GSF (15.14 mc/s) ** 1.15 p.m. 1.45 p.m. GSD (11.75 mc/s) 3.30 p.m. GSC ( 9.53 mc/s) 4.30 p.m. GSC ( 9.58 mc/s) 6.15 p.m. GSE (11.80 mc/s) * 8.30 p.m. GSE (11.80 mc/s) ** 9 p.m. 9.45 p.m. GSI (15.20 mc/s) 11.00 p.m. GSV (17.81 mc/s) The Pacific transmission new extends from 6.10 p.m. to 10.15 p.m., and will be receivable on the following transmitters:— GSC (31.22 m. 9.53 mc/s) till 8 p.m., GSB (31.55 m., 9.51 mc/s) till 8.45 p.m., GSE (29.59 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 (19.06 m„ 15.26 mc/s), GSP (19.60 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 ”Cock-a-Doodle-Doo,” presented by C. B. Cochran, at 7.15 p.m.; "Calling Australia, ' at 8.15 p.m. "News Commentary,” by Vernon Bartlett, M.P., at 8.30 p.m.; and "Matters of Moment,” at 9 p.m.