FRIDAY

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 23, 18 December 1931, Page 34

FRIDAY

1YA Features TT 11 a.m. the morning’ service from St. David’s Church will be relayed. Between 7 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. there will be a programme of selected recordings. The special Christmas Day evening se:vice from St. Matthew’s Church will follow, the choir rendering appropriate Christmas music. After the service, the studio programme will be contributed by Sam Duncan, the well-known tenor of the Melody Four, of Wellington, and Doris Grant Cowen, who is making her first appearance at this station. Instrumental items will be provided by the Moore Sisters. Wellington Notes TT 10 a.m. the station will go on the air for the purpose of broadcasting a special Christmas service conducted by Pastor W. G. Carpenter. At approximately 10.45 a.m. the station will close down, and until 8 p.m. Christmas Day will be observed as a silent day. At 8 p.m. there will be a concert

from the studio. The Orchestrina, under Signora A. P. Truda, will play several selections. Terence O’Brien {tenor) will be heard in four songs, and Mr. and Mrs. Watson (baritone and contralto), newcomers to 2YA, will sing several duets. Miss HD. Standen (soprano), also a newcomer to 2YA, will include in her items a "Maori Slumber Song" (Te Rangi Pai). Weatured on the programme will be Florence Munro, a South Island violiniste. Christchurch Jottings "AUNT PAT" and various Aunts and Uncles will conduct a children’s Christmas morning session at 9 a.m. The Anglican Cathedral Evensong and Carol Service (Dr. J. ©. Bradshaw, musical director) will be relayed at 7 p.m., and at 8 o’clock a delightful programme will be given at the studio. Selections from 4YA FOLLOWING the "Santa Olaus" Hour, which will be conducted by the Aunts and Uncles in conjunction with Big Brother Bill, a combined Christmas Service will be relayed from the Methodist Mission. The service will be conducted by the Rev. A. Mead, M.A., the preacher being the Rev. D. ©. Herron, M.A. A children’s Carol Service at 7 p.m. will be in charge of Big Brother Bill, and at 8 o’clock @ season- --- a

able programme will be presented from the studio. The Select Four wili sing various quartets, and with the assistance of Freda Elmes and BD. Ottrey will render Anderson’s Christmas Cantata "The Norman Baron." D. BH. Dall will give two Dickens sketches from "A Christmas Carol."