OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 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 reports. 7.0: Local news. 7.15: “Britain Speaks.” 7.28: Time signals. 7.30: Talk by the 2YA Gardening Expert. 7.45: Philip Green and his Orchestra. 7.49: Danny Malone (tenor). 7.57: “Bundles”: A serial story of London life, featuring Betty Balfour. 8.27: Entertainment from the studio by New Zealand artists. 8.57: Weather reports. Station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.15: 8.8. C. Commentary. 9.25: Evening Prayer: Rev. N. E. Oakley, 8.A., Moderator of the Dunedin Presbytery. 9.30: “The First Great Churchill.’ 9.55: The New Mayfair Orchestra. 10.0: Radio dispatch from N.Z. Forces in the Middle East. 10.5: Mitchell Ayres and his Fashions in Music. 11.0: News, followed by meditation music. 11.30: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0 p.m.: Tunes for the tea-table. 6.0: Musical menu. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Orchestral masterpieces, featuring at 8.30, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Symphony in G Major” (Haydn). 9.30: Operatic gems. 10.0-10.25: Signal preparation for Air Force (final session for 1940). 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0 p.m.: Cocktails. 7.35: “Billy Bunter of Greyfriars.” 7.47: Musical digest. 8.15: “The Hunchback of Ben Ali.” 8.28: Solo artists' spotlight. 8.45: Stars of the musical firmament. 9.0: “The Life of Cleopatra.” 9.30: Night Club. , 10.0: Close down.

IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: Local news. 7.15: Final talk of the series, “There Always Was an England,” by Julius Hogben. 7.30: Watson Forbes (viola) and Myers Forbes (piano). 7.58: Studio recital by Nancye O’Connor (soprano). 8.10: Studio recital by Nancy Reed (piano). 8.33: Mark Raphael (baritone). 8.39: Leon Goossens (oboe) and the International String Quartet. 8.57: Weather reports. Station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.15: 8.8. C. News Commentary. 9.25: Evening Prayer. 9.30: “Martin's Corner: The Story of a Family.” 10.0: Radio despatch from the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East.” 10.5 :Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: News, followed by meditation music. 11.30: Close down. 3YA, Christchurcn. 720 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: Local news. 7.10: Talk, “The Dental Needs of the Child.” 7.20: Addington Stock Market Report. 7.30: Boyd Neel String Orchestra. 7.50: Studio recital of old English songs by Robert Dodgson (boy soprano). 8.3: Fritz Kreisler (violin). 8.8: Readings by O. L. Simmance. 8.28: Organ recital by Dr. J. C .Bradshaw. 8.53: Vladimir Rosing (tenor). 8.57: Weather reports. Station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.15: 8.8. C. News Commentary. 9.25: Evening Prayer. 9.30: Eva Liebenberg (contralto). 9.35: Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. 10.0: Radio despatch from the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East 10.5: 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. G. 55: Weather reports. 7.0: Local news. 7.10: Burnside Stock Market report. 7.17: Recorded talk by Lord Elton: “The Cupboard.” 7.30: Jack Jackson and his Orchestra. 7.40: “The Bold, Bad Buccaneers.” 7.53: “The Hunchback of Ben Ali,” adapted from Marie Craik’s. novel, “Olive.” 8.6: Walter Sinton (musician). 8.12: Variety. 8.2 G: Walter Sinton. 8.31: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 8.43: “Live, Love and Laugh.” 8.57: Weather reports. Station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. Newsreel. 9.15: 8.8. C. News Commentary. 9.25: Evening Prayer. 9.33: “The Life of Cleopatra.” 10.0: Radio despatch from the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East. 10.5: Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra. 11.0: News, followed by meditation music. 11.30: Close clown.

Empire Broadcasts. News and news commentaiies, 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 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. GSF (15.14 mc/s) 4.00 a.m. GSB ( 9.51 mc/s) 0.00 a.m. GSI (15.20 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 ( 9.51 mc/s) 4.30 p.m. GSC ( 9.51 mc/s) 6.15 p.m. GSE (11.86 mc/s) * 8.30 p.m. GSE (11.86 mc/s) »» 9 p.m. 9.45 p.m. (GSE (11.86 mc/s) 11.00 p.m. GSF (15.14 mc/s) »

Tlie Pacific transmission new extends from 6.10 p.m. to 10.0 p.m. and will be receivable on the following transmitters; GSB (31.55 m., 9.51 mc/s) till 8.45 p.m. GSD (25.53 m., 11.75 mc/s), GSF (19.82 m., 15.14 mc/s), from 8.15 p.m., GSI (19.66 m., 15.26 mc/s) to 8.0 p.m., GSP (19.60 m„ 15.31 mc/s) from 7.45 p.m., and GSV (16.84 m„ 17.81 mc/s) from 8.30 p.m.

Items of interest in today’s programme are "Calling New Zealand,” at 7.30 p.m.; “Here Lies the Nazi,” a talk by Colonel M. G. Christie, at 9 p.m.