OVER THE AIR

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19889, 19 May 1936, Page 10

OVER THE AIR

RADIO PROGRAMMES. BROADCASTS FOR TO-DAY, The following programmes will be broadcast from the New Zealand national stations to-day:— IYA, Auckland.—4, Special weather report for farmers; 4.30, sports results; 5.0, children’s hour, with, at 5.45, pjn., the special feature, “Richard the Lionheart”; 6.0, dinner music; 7.0, nows and reports; 8.0, concert programme, the String Orchestra; 8.10, recordings, “Eb and Zeb,” the country storekeepers, in another humorous episode; 8.20, “The Easy Chair,” a memory programme of songs and melodies of days gone by; 8.35, “The Rehearsal,” being a further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and his employer; 8.50, the String Orchestra; 9.0, weather, station notices; 9.5, talk, Mr H. G. Bell, “World Affairs”; 9.20, dance music by Norman Volkner and his Internationals, interspersed with recordings; 11.0, close down. 2YA, Wellington.—3.3o, Time signals and weather forecast for farmers; 5.0, children’s hour; 6.0, dinner music (recordings); 7.0, news and reports; 7.30, time signals; 8.0, chimes, classical and symphonic programme, featuring Dorothy Helmrich the world-famous mezzo-soprano; re- ; cording, Bruno Walter, conducting the British Symphony Orchestra; 8.6, a Schubert recital by Dorothy Helmrich, mezzo-soprano, international radio artist; 8.16, recording, Ethel Leginska, piano; 8.20, relay from the N.Z. National Eisteddfod (from the Concert Chamber, Town Hall), vocal scholarship, Shakespearean recital; 8.40, from studio, talk, Mr A. C. A. Sexton, M.P., “The Most Extraordinary Fraud of Modern Times, the Story of Some Bank Notes”; 9.0, weather, station notices; 9.5, a Schubert programme, recording, Sir Hamilton Harty, conducting the Halle Orchestra; 9.13, a further group of Schubert songs by Dorothy Helmrich; 9.24, recording. Heifetz, violin; 9.28, recording, John Goss, baritone; 9.34, rc cordings. Sir Henry J. Wood, conducting the New Queen’s Hall Orchestra; 10.0, music, mirth and melody; 11.0, close down. 3YA, Christchurch.—4.o, Special weather forecast and light musical programme; 4.30, sports results; 5.0, children’s hour; 6.0, dinner music; 7.0 news and reports; 7.30, time signals; 7.35, talk, Mr E. J. Bell, “Books”; | 8.0, a recital by Miss Evelyn Gar- : diner, principal contralto of of the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, J a continuity programme, “Music of j the Sea”; 8.15, 3YA Orchestra; 8.31, ; recording, Male Voice Chorus; 8.39, : 3YA Orchestra; 8.49, recording, Reg- • inald Whitehead, bass; 8.52, 3YA Or- j chestra; 9.0, weather, station notices; 9.5, talk, Mona Tracy, “Peraki, And a Hundred Years”; 9.20, recordings, Novelty Orchestra; 9.23, “Reconciliation,” a further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and his employer; 9.38, “Music at Your Fireside”; 9.53, “The Voice of the People, Catherine the First—Part 1,” one of a aeries of short plays dealing with the rulers of the Russian people from the time of Peter the Great, presented by George Edwards and Company; 10.0, dance music; 11.0. close down. 4YA, Dunedin.—4.o, Weather forecast for farmers; 4.30, light musical programme; 4.45, sports results; 5.0, children’s hour; 6.0, dinner music; 7.0, news and reports; 8.0, chimes, a programme of new recordings, New i Mayfair Orchestra (vocalists, Alice Moxon and Stuart Robertson); 8.10, richard Tauber (tenor); 8.16, Len Fillis and his Hawaiian Orchestra; 8.22, the Kardosch Singers; 8.25, Ken Harvey (banjo); 8.28, Harry Gordon (comedian): 8.34, Wild and his Jolly Swiss Yodelling Boys; 8.40, talk, Dr. E. N. Merrington, “Studies in National Types of Character—(4) New , Zealand and Australian Character”; 9.0, weather, station notices; 9.5, Sydney Mac Ewan (tenor), and Duncan Morison (piano), in half an hour of Scottish and Gaelic music; 9.35, Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards; 9.43, “Eb and Zeb,” the country storekeepers, in another humorous episode; 9.52, Massed Bands; 10.0, music, mirth and melody; 11.0, close down.