Features of Australian Broadcast Programmes

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 51, 5 July 1929, Page 2

Features of Australian Broadcast Programmes

1 response to many requests the historie story of the "Mutiny of the Bounty," written and produced by ©. C. Faulkner, will be repeated at 2FC on the evening of July 1. The following night Alfred Cuningham is collaborating with the Metropolitan Band in & programme of British marching songs, such well-known numbers as "Hearts of Oak," "Rule Britannia," "Boys of the Old Brigade," "The Girl I Left Behind Me," "The British Grenadiers," "The Vicar of Bray," will be given, with annotations by Captain Fred Aarons, DOROTHY HELMRICH’S recital on the evening of July 3, to be broadeast through 2FC, will offer music lovers some of the best broadcasts of this kind ever undertaken. Miss Helmrich is a delightful artiste with a world-wide reputation. Her repertoire is extensive and unusual, and listeners may anticipate with pleasure the programme she is arranging for thig evening. "THROUGH 2BL service on Wednesday night, July 3, the H. W. Varna Company will present the domestic eomedy, "Tea for Three." This will be Mr. Varna’s last production before taikng a well-earned holiday.

ON Sunday evening, July 7, there will be no church service broadcast through 2BL. On this occasion the Sydney Harmonic Choir, conducted by William Bourne, will render a programme of Elgar music. There will also be well-known hymns with organ accompaniment and instrumental and vocal numbers by the Empire Trio in association with Miss Le Brun Brown. AN hour in Bohemia! At 9.30 on July 9, will commence a novel programme, consisting ostensibly of what our artists do after the studio closes down for the night. Impersonations will be given by Mr. G. Vern Barnett, and other 2BL well-known personalities, and a hearty laugh is promised those listeners who are curious enough to want to know what the microphone does after the announcer’s cheery "Good-night." "THE Royal Apollo Club will hold their concert at the Conservatorium on the evening of July 10, and the whole performance will be broadeast through 2FO service. The artists assisting are: Muriel Barlow, ‘Ernest McKinley, and Carl Budden-Morris. The following night, July 11, 2BL listeners will have the opportunity of hearing Lucille Bruntnell’s studio production of "My Lady’s Dress." OFS final night will be given on July 16. On this occasion there will be an all-star progranime featuring trio numbers by Alfred Cunningham, Lillian Gibson, Charles Nicis, and other artists who have been associated with 2#C since its inception will also contribute. Through 2BL on the same evening the complete concert by the Strathfield: Music Club will be. broadcast, the artists assisting are Alexander Syerjensky, Jules van der Klei, Lloyd ‘Davies, HEnid Conley, Constance Burke. &