New 3YA Programmess-Mainly for Women

New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 479, 27 August 1948, Page 11

New 3YA Programmess--Mainly for Women

ECAUSE it is felt that in the evenings, when Dad and the rest of the family want to listen to their own programmes, Mother hardly gets a chance to hear her favourites, Station 3YA has decided to reorganise its women's’ sesstons so that the housewife (in Canterbury at any rate) can enjoy her radio undisturbed while the rest of the household are away at the office or school. From next Monday, August 30, at 10.0 am. and 2.30 p.m. every day except

Saturday and Sunday, two half-hour | programmes will be broadcast under the general title Mainly For Women. Besides incorporating existing programmes like For My Lady sessions and. Home Science and Health talks, Mainly Fot Women will provide a regular news coverage of the activities of women’s organisations. At 10.0 a.m. on Mondays a programme called In Town This Week will contain news © about Christchurch organisations, and at 10.0 am. on Thursdays For the Country Woman will keep those in the country better informed about what is going on in the province, At 2.30 p.m. on Mondays a weekly letter from women correspondents in Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin will be broadcast, with, on every fourth Monday, a newsletter about women in other countries. Films and Books * Other new programmes include A Woman Writes, at 10.0 am. on Wednesdays, in which various people will talk about their favourite women authors (the first by Diana Craig on Alison Uttley), film reviews alternating with short stories and miscellaneous readings at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesdays, and book reviews (with special emphasis on children’s and women’s books) at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesdays. Every fourth Wed. nesday at this time News From the Libraries, a session intended as a guide to users of Christchurch libraries, will be broadcast. é A news background talk, In This Week’s Overseas News, will be heard at 10.0 am. on Fridays, and at , 2.30 p.m. on Fridays a session called With a ne me a a a

the Mobile Microphone. ‘Two interesting series of talks will begin next week -The Art of Being a Woman, by Amabel Willidms-Ellis, at 2.45 p.m. on Tuesday, August 31, and The Human Touch, by Miriam Pritchett, at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, September 2. Home Science talks will. be heard in future at 2.30 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, Health in the Home at 10.0 a.m. on Tuesdays, and Help for the Home Cook at 2.45 p-m. on Fridays.