On the Air this Week

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 52, 8 July 1932, Page 12

On the Air this Week

_july 11 — 17

"& Racing Radio Redaction." N the concert programme at 2YA on ; Tuesday is featured a sporting, "racing radio redaction," entitled "Good Information," written and produced by Bob Downe and recounted by a member of the Downe family, Ben, Bob, Ida, Stan, Neil, Hugo, Flo and Dot, This is something entirely new in the entertainment field, and being of. a sporting nature should have a wide appeal. Incidental music will be introduced by Frank Crowther’s Novelty Orchestra. Notes in Brief. N Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. 1YA will relay the opening of the Auckland Winter Show, the principal speaker being his Excellency the Governor-Gen-eral, TH5 Aeolian Orchestra, conducted by Gerald T. Lee, will be heard from 1YA on Thursday. Included in their items will be the "Light Cavalry Over-. ture" and selections from "Il Trovatore" and the "Nutcracker Suite." HE 1YA Chamber Orchestra will broadeast on Friday, when they will be assisted by the Asquiths, Alys Moneur (contralto), Roger Errington (tenor), and Ray Jury (xylophonist).

NEW artiste appearing on 1YA’s. programme on Saturday is Miss . M. Hirtzell, a mezzo-soprano, who will he heard in a number of popular balads, ‘THE 2YA Vocal Octet will provide the yocal numbers from 2YA on Thursday. Also on this programme will be a combination new to radio. The Rodgers Instrumental Trio, who will play, among other numbers, "You Will Remember Vienna" (Romberg), "Spanish Dance," by Moszkowski, and "A Brown Bird Singing," by Hayden Wood. THE concert programme from 3YA on Thursday will comprise recordings illustrating life on land and sea. A number of particular interest will be a recording of the Australian kookaburra, or laughing jackass. THE Tamariki Maori Quartet will be heard in a number of traditional Maori melodies from 2YA on Saturday.

A HISTORY of the Jacobite rising in song will be an illustrated talk by Dr. E. V. Galway, the Dunedin city organist, on Wednesday. REX HARRISON, the well-known Australian baritone, will be heard from 3YA on Sunday evening, his numbers including "The Temple Bells," by Woodforde-Finden, "Harbour Night Song," by Sanderson, and "Abide With Me," by Liddle. ,

SONG cycle, ‘Summer Time," by Landon Ronald, will be sung by Frances Hammerton, who will be accompanied by the studio orchestra, at SYA on Sunday. This Week’s Talks 9 p.m, Talks, "Wy Csic and Beauty in Many Lands." Mrs. Gordon Robertson, from 1YA, Tuesday. "By-ways of New Zealand Story." Mr. A. B. Chappell, M.A, from 1YA, Wednesday. "The Mermaid of London." "Lee Fore Brace," from 1YA, Saturday. "A Wayfarer in the South Seas off the Beaten Track." Mrs. Ida Evans, from 2YA, Monday. "International Affairs." Dr. Guy H. Scholefield, O.B.E., from 2YA, Wednesday. ° "nglish Novels at the Beginning of 1932." Mr. Hugh Walpole, from 2YA, Thursday (recording). "The Story of London." Mr. B. J. Bell, from 3YA, Thursday. "S§ Brief Record of the Ranfurly Shield." Mr. Read Masters, from 3YA, Friday.

W.E.A, Talks. "The Irish Theatre.’ Mr. W. 8. Wauchop, from 2YA, Thursday. "Uges of Birds." Mr. W. R. B. Oliver, M.Se., from 2YA, Saturday. "Banking and Currency." Mr. George Lawn, M.A., from 3YA, Monday. "Titerature-Four Modern Poets." Professor Sinclaire, from 3YA, Friday. "Sir Thomas Moore." Mr. J. B.-Cal-lan, from 4¥A, Tuesday. "Anticipation-the Futyre of International Trade." Mr. Lloyd Ross, M.A.. from 4YA, Friday. Other Talks. "Pasture Management." Mr. Wood-year-Smith, from 1Y4, Tuesday. "The Home Garden." Mr. A. C. Pye, speaking. under the auspices of the Auckland Horticultural Society, from 1YA, Saturday. "Ballroom Dancing-The Modern Waltz.’ Mr. W. E. Priestley, from 2YA, Monday. : "People’s Railways." Mr. J. W. Fergie, from 2Y¥.A on Friday. "Books of Travel and Biographies." Mr. E. J. Bell, librarian of the Canterbury Public Library, from 38YA on Wednesday. "Top-dressing."" Mr. A. H. Flay, of the Canterbury Agricultural College. from 3YA on Thursday. The Church Services. 1YA, Pitt Street Methodist Church. Preacher, the Rev. E. D. Patchett, and the organist and choirmaster Professor W. A. Moor... 2YA, The Terrace Congregational Chureh. Preacher, the Rev. Harry Johnson, and the organist and choirmaster Mr. H. Brusey.

8YA4, The Christchurch Cathedral. Preacher, the Rey. G. W. Dent, with Dr. J. C. Bradshaw at the organ. 4YA, Hanover Street Baptist Church. Preacher, the Rev. E. S. Tuckwell, the choirmaster Mr. H. P. Desmouling and the organist Mrs. H. ©. Campbell."

Featurettes

Royal Male Choir 4YA, Monday "A Racing Radio Redaction" 2YA, Tuesday Acolian Orchestra 1YA, Thursday "On Land and Sea" 3YA, Thursday -Tamariki Maori Quartet 2YA, Saturday