On the Air this Week

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 48, 10 June 1932, Page 12

On the Air this Week

May 29 — June 4

Henry Purcell, A RECITAL of songs by the famous old English composer of the 17th eentury, Henry Purcell, will provide a delightful section of 2YA’s programme on Monday, June 13. Purcell has been styled "The greatest and most original of English composers." He certainly marked the beginning of a new era in music, and he has the distinctive fame of having been appreciated while he lived. He was buried beneath the organ in Westminster Abbey, and a tablet on a pillar nearby bears the legend, "Were lyes Henry Purcell, Esquire. Who left his Life and is Gone to that Blessed Place Where Only his Harmony can be exceeded." The Lyric Four will interpret, in solo, @uet, and quartet some of -Purcell’s most charming songs. The same singers will also present some traditional airs, "My Boy Billy," "Widdicombe Fair," and "Because I Wur Shy." *2YA’s programme this evening will include a half-hour gramophone lecturerecital by Karl Atkinson on "A Northern Folk Singer," "A Surprise Item," and some very attractive selections by. the 2YA Concert Orchestra, under Mr. Leon de Mauny. The Mountebanks. A PARTY of artists experienced on the stage and before the microphone will be making their first appearance from 1YA on Wednesday in a novelty programme with light and humorous numbers. They will come on the air at approximately 8.30 p.m., the first half-hour being taken up with selected recordings. Minnesingers Ladies’ Choir. [HE Dunedin Minnesingers Ladies’ Choir will have charge o* the evening’s programme from 4YA on Wedday. Their concerted numbers will: be interspersed with ’cello solos by Valmai Moffett and a pianoforte solo by Mrs. BE. Drake. Noteworthy Items. "THERE are many noteworthy items ‘ at 1YA on Thursday. On the programme will appear Valerie Peacocke, soprano, with Robert Simmers, one of.

New Zealand’s leading baritones. Instrumental items will be rendered by the 1YA Chamber Orchestra, and Mr. A. B. Chappell will give another of his talks on "Byways of New Zealand." Recorded items include numbers by the Garde Republicaine of France, Leslie Harvey, organist, who is not unknown in New Zealand, George Van Duzen, yodeller, and the B.B.C. Wireless Military Band. "Revuedeville." THE programme from 2YA on Friday will be a special presentation by the Wellington Operatic and Theatrical Society, entitled "Revuedeville,"’ and will occupy the whole evening’s concert. Variety Items from 1YA. "THERE are many noteworthy items on 1YA’s programme for Saturday. A. L. Lister, who is rapidly making a name for himself in the northern city as a humorist, Winifred Osborne, soprano, and Peter Dawson (particularly noted for his renderings of old English folk-songs), Robert McKnight (concer tina numbers), and the 1YA Chamber Orchestra will broadcast during the evening. Dunedin Glee Singers. THE Dunedin Glee Singers will be in charge of the programme from 4YA on Saturday, when they wil: be heard in choruses supported by Mons. de Rose and his instrumental octet. Humorous items will be broadcast by Mr. W. B. Lambert, whose numbers in-

clude "He Played His Ukulele as the Ship Went Down." , A Great City and Great Men. " A GREAT City and Great Men" is the title given to a talk which Sir James Parr, K.C.M.G., will broadcast from 2YA on Tuesday, June 14. During Sir James’s term of office as High Commissioner he met all the leading men of Britain, and he will present to listeners thumbnail sketches of such outstanding personages "as Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Ramsay MacDonald, and Stanley Baldwin. Sir James will also give his impressions of the House of Commons, and will deseribe some of the historic features of the greatest city in the world-Lon-don.’

Church Services. The services for Sunday, June 19, are :- 1YA: Church of Christ, West Street. Preacher, Pastor W. Campbell. 2YA: St. John’s Presbyterian Church. 3YA: Holy Trinity Church, Avonside. 4YA: Methodist Central Mission.

Notes on the Talks. W.E.A. SESSION: "The Social and Political History of New Zealand" (No. 8), A. Campbell, from 3YA, Monday. "The Aspect of Education in Russia"

(No. 8), Mr. A. Salmond, 4YA, Tuesday. "Phe Songs of Scotland-Historibal Songs," Mr. J. W. Shaw, M.A., 1¥A, Wednesday. "Psychology To-day-The Great Mystery,’ Mr. H..C. Beecroft, M.A., 1YA, Thursday. : "Development and Hducation-The Third Seven Years," Professor W. H. Gould, 2YA,. Thursday. "Political Institutions of New Zealand," Mr. L. C. Webb, M.A., 3YA, Friday. "The Mind of Post-War Hurope--Russia," Dr. Ian Henning, 2YA, Saturday. OTHER TALKS: Ted Priestley, on. ballroom dancing, from 2YA on Monday. Karl Atkinson, gramophone lec-ture-recital, "A. Northern Folk Singer," 2YA, Monday. "General Review of Advisory and Experimental Work of the Department of Agriculture in the Auckland Province," Mr. P. W. Smallfield, Fields Superintendent of the Fields Division, Department of Agriculture, Auckland, 1YA, Tuesday, 7.80 p.m. "Biographies and Travels," HB. J. Bell, 38YA, Wednesday. "My Chinese Shipmates," Lee Fore Brate, from 1YA, Saturday. "A Great City and Great Men," Sir James Parr, 2YA, Tuesday. INTERNATIONAL TALKS: "Music and Beauty in Many Lands," Mrs. Gordon Robertson, 1YA, Tuesday, 9 p.m.. Guy Scholefield, O.B.E.. talking from 2YA on Wednesday at 9.2 p.m. "The Collapse of Civilisation," Professor I, G. Pocock, 8YA, Thursday, 9 p.m.

Current Topics J

"F ISTENER" (Wanganui) writes: "In reply to the paragraph in ‘Current Topics’ of May 27, 1932. The ‘Coverage Commission’ were informed that 1YA, 3YA and 4YA were not received well in Wanganui, and could seldom be relied upon the give an evening’s entertainment." Evidently someone is on the wrong track. Our paragraph was based on a news item in a local paper and correspondence received from Wanganui listeners. * % * Two THOUSAND people in the Victoria Theatre, London, saw _ this year’s Derby by television. The trans-

Featurettes

Musical Portrait-Henry Purcell 2YA, Monday Talk by Sir James Parr 2VA, Tuesday "The Mountebanks" 1YA, Wednesday "Revuedeville" 2V A, Thursday "My Chinese Shipmates" (Lee Fore Brace) 1YA, Saturday

Two well- known IYA artists, who will present duets from that station Sunday, June 12.

Mission, which was projected on an 18-foot screen, was highly successful, the whole race from start to finish being clearly shown. A further cable message from London states that television ‘has reached the cinema. A-six-foot screen in London showed a short variety performance which was being enacted two miles away. Wvery movement and word was undistorted.