Record RAPID RADIO GUIDE

Radio Record, Volume XIII, Issue 11, 21 August 1939, Page 29

Record RAPID RADIO GUIDE

Vocal And Instrumental

Monday, August 21: PROLIFIC composer Paul Hindemith, who was leader of the Frankfort Opera House orchestra en he was 20, will have his Secd Sonata for Piano featured on a chamber music programme from 2Y¥A at 8.0 p.m. Tuesday, August 22: N2w ZEALAND contralie Cushla de Lange is the central figure of the musical seriat "Inspiration." You ean hear it from 2Z2B, SZB, and 4ZB at 2 pin. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Wednesday, August 23: "GREAT ORCHESTRAS OF THER WORLD", heard on Wednesday evenings at VHS is deservedly @ highspot on the 8ZB programme. AUCKLAND'S 1YA will present Kay Christie, contralto, in a leider recital of Brahms and Schu- |

a sert melodies at 8.15 pam., to be followed by Mary Martf, violin, and Barbara Coyle, piano, in Bach’s Sonata in G Major. GNITH Mischa Levitski as soloist, the London Symphony. Orchestra, conducted by Sir Landon Ronald, will present Liszt's "Coneerte No. 1 in EF Flat Major’ from 3YA, Wednesday, August 23, at 9.40 p.m. Thursday, August 24: JHE music of the Maoris is a constant delight to New Zealanders and in presenting if in a weekly session, 3ZB is also iz aceordance with the NCBS policy of bringing Native culture to the fore. "Maoriland Melodies" is broadcast ‘on Thursdays at 10 p.m. by Te Ari Pitama. LADIMIR ROSING, tenor, will sing several songs by Russian composers from 4YA at 9.28 p.m. Included will be "Lullaby," from "Dream of the Volga," and "Autumn," by Arensky; and "The Rose and the Nightingale" and "Southern Night," by Rimsky-Kor-sakov. The Landon Symphony Orehestra will follow this with Rimsky-Korsakov’s "Le Coq d’Or" suite. Saturday, August 26: OSARIO BOURDON, the Canadjan who has made good in music in the United States, will conduct his orchestra in three selections by I. German from 3YA at 8.27 p.m,

Dance Music

Monday, August 21: ANCH enthusiasts are catered for by 1YA at 10 o’clock when 2 programme of- modern dance music will be presented by J. Wilbur. and his Band. Dick Todd sup plies the vocal interludes.

Talks

Monday, August 21: HAT’S more pleasant on a cold winter evening than to put one’s feet on the mantelshelf, and tune in to the wrestling? There’s a ringside commentary on the Auckland Town Hall match from LYA at 9.5; Gordon Hutter will be there, of course. The Wellington match, too, will be on the air. Tuesday, August 22: T,. KE. MUNRO’S introspective talics on world affairs have long been a@ feature of Station IVA. Another ane of them can be heard from there at 9.5 pan, =a

Wednesday, August 23: HE first of a series of talks about fishing will be heard from 4YA on Wednesday, August 23, when G. S. Thomson presents a feature "On Catching Fish." Anglers who want to learn more will do well to listen to this series as a good deal of information on New Zealand fish and methods of catching them will be. presented. Friday, August 25: FOR authoritative commentaries and summing-tup of racing prospects, there are few "turf advisers" to compare with The RailBird, whose "Turf Tattle" is a national ZB feature at 9.30 p.m. every Friday. ANY old-timers will tell you there is more science than fuck in cards. Maybe so, but the laws of probability work there just as in any other game of chance. Llewellyn Etherington will give a recorded talk on "Luck and Probability in Cards" from 2YA at 3.48 p.m. See the story of cards on the "Personatities® page of to-day’s "Record."

Sporting

Saturday, August 26: HE Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin nationals will broad.

cast commentaries on the main Rugby matches this afternoon.

Humorous And Dramatic

Monday, August 21; JHERE are few radio characters who have become so real as Peter MacGregor, whose delightful whimsicalities have made him the friend of every listener. "The House of Peter MacGregor" is presented from the four ZB stations from Monday to Friday at 10.30 a.m. STORIES of the occult have been best-sellers right through the years, and when these stories are translated into sound, they have an instant appeal. "Drums", heard over the four ZB stations at 8 o'clock on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays is no exception to the rule, and the adventures of Philip Lawrence, retired consular officer, and his family, are eagerly followed by a tremendous radio audience. There is a dignity about "Drums" that sets it apart, a fascination that will intake you come back for more. "Drums" is easily one of the most outstanding transcriptions ever to be on the ether in this country. FAAVE you met the "Randall Family"? ff you have not, there is a treat in store for you when you hear them from 4ZB at 8.30 p.m. and from 1ZB at 17 @.m. from Mondays to Fridays. You will like the "Randall Family" because they are so human, so like the everyday folk we all ‘mow. EALING with the messengers of the British Foreign Office, and the tasks assigned to them, is the exciting feature, "Tales of the Silver Greyhound," presented by LYA at 8 p.m. Carrying important dispatches to all parts of the world, the bearers of the silver greyhound emblem are confronted with many situations taxing their wits and courage to the extreme. THE thousand-and-one problems thet confront a@ mother of two daughters are att deatt with in "Mamma Bloom's Broad’, which has. first-class educational value

relieved with the sparkling humour and emotions of true life. This feature is broadcast from 1ZB, 2ZB, 38ZB and 4ZB at 7.30 to-night, toniovrow and Wednesday. HILDREN of all ages love circuses, and that’s why the serial "Under The Big Top’’ is so popular. It’s on at all the ZB stations, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at € p.m. . Tuesday, August 22: BRINGING back memories of the days when the villain of the piece hissed through his dark moustache and the heroine wrung her hands and cried, "Oh! Woe is

me" and such like, is the feature, The Old Time The-ayter, another episode of which will be presented from 3YA at 9.20. Wednesday, August 23: THE indubitably-popular "Fourth Form at St. Percy's" will be featured in another amusing episode from 4YA at 0.28 p.m. Green botile will be in especially fine form. ‘

THE NBS TALK TIMES PANEL WILL BE FOUND ON PAGE 43.

"TUPERIAL INTRIGUE", at 9 p.m. from .the ZB’s, is worth the attention of listeners. "Title perialt Intrigue" is set in the year 1572, when, although Charles IX was King, France was. really ruled by Catherine de Medici, Queen Mother. Thursday, August 24: AN’S progress through the years to his present so-calfed state of civilisation is marked by. the acts of great men and women in peace and in war. A further episode of the serial production, Man Through The Ages, will be heard from 4YA at 8.35. Saturday, August 26: HIGHLIGHT in 8ZB’s week-end programmes is "Sacrifice," heard each Saturday night at‘ 8.30, The majestic Grand: March ‘from "Aida" forms the theme music, and strikes exactly the right note fe this series of complete ‘radio plays, dealing with the lives of such sons and daughters of fame. as Captain Scott, Plorence Night-: ingale, Marie Curie and a hundred others, who have turned .their personal sacrifices into a rich pageant . of everlasting beauty. "Sacrifice" is a series you will enjoy again and again.

BROADCAST STATIONS | OF NEW ZEALAND

FOR the convenience of listeners to New Zealand stations we give below a complete list of stations operating in the Dominion, together with all pertinent details. To enable quick reference, the stations are listed in arder of frequency in kilocycles, as given in the first column; wavelengths i in metres are given in the second column. K.Cc. M. Call Location Times. of Transmission 570 526 2YA Wellington Mon.-Sat., 6.50-9.0 am., 10.0 a.m.-11.0 p.m. (closes 11.30 p.m. Sat.); Sun., 9.0 a.m.-4.30 pm., 6.0-10.0 p.m. 650 462 1YA Auckland Mon-Sat., 7.0-9.0 am. 10.0 a.m.-11.0 pm. (closes 11.15 p.m. Sat.); Sun., 9.0 a.m.-4.30 p.m., 6.0-10.15 p.m. 680 441 4YZ Invercargill Mon.-Fri., 7.0-9.0 a.m., 11.0 a.m.2.0 p.m., 5.0-10.0 pm.; Sat., 7.0-9.0 am., 11.0 a.m.-10.0 p.m.; Sun., 11.0 a.m.- 1.0 p.m., ; 2.0-4.0 p.m., 6.30-10.0 p.m. 720 416 3YA Christchurch Mon.-Sat., 7.0-9.0 a.m., 10.0 : am-11.0 pm. (closes 11.15 p.m. Sat.); Sun. 9.0 a.m.-4.30 p.m., 5.30-10.30 p.m. 760 395 2¥YH Napier Mon.-Sat., 7.0-9.0 am, 11.6 a.m.-2.0 pm. 5.0-10.0 p.m: Sun., 11.0 a.m.-1.0 pm., 2.0-4.6 p.m., 6.30-10.0 p.m. 790 380 4YA Dunedin Mon.-Sat., 6.50-9.0 am., 10.0 a.m.-11.0 p.m. {closes 11.15 p.m. Sat.); Sun, 9.0 am.4.30 p.m., 5.80-10.0 p.m. 840 357 2YC Wellington Mon.-Fri., 5.0-6.0 p.m., 7.0-10.30 pm. (2.30-6.0 p.m. when 2YA is broadcasting’ Parliamentary proceedings); Sat., 2.454.30 p.m.,, 5.0-6.0 pm., 7.010.30 p.m.; " Sun., 6.0-10.0 p.m. 880 341 1YX Auckland Mon.-Sat., 5.0-6.0 p-ni., 7.0-10,30 p.m.; Suwn., 6.0-16.0 p.m. 920 327 2YN_ Nelson Daily, 7.0-10.0 p.m. 940 319 3ZR Greymouth Mon.-Sat., 7.0 a.m.-10.0 pm; Sun., 12 noon-1.30 p.m., 5.3010.0 p.m. 990 3803 2YD Wellington Daily, 7.0-10.0 p.m. 1090 275 1ZB Auckland Daily, 6.0 a.m.-12 midnight. 1120 268 2ZB Wellington Daily, 6.0 a.m.-12 midnight. 1140 263 4YO Dunedin Mon.-Sat., 5.0-6.0 p.m., 7.0-10.30 p.m; Sat. only, 3.0-4.30 p.m. ; Sun., 6.0-10.0 p.m. 1200 259 3YL Christchurch Mon.-Sat., 5.0-6.0 p.m., 7.0-10.30 p.m.; Sat. onky, 2.30-4.80 p.m.; Sun., 6.0-10.0 p.m. 1220 246 4Z8 Dunedin Daily, 6.0 a.m.-12 midnight. 1250 240 1ZM Auckland Mon.-Fri., 5.0-10.0 p.m.; Sat., . . 1.0 pm.-12 midnight; Sun., . 10.0 a.m.-10.0 p.m. 1400 214 2ZA Palmerston N. Daily 6.0-10.0 p.m. 1430 210 8ZB Christchurch Daily, 6.0 a.m.-12 midnight.

IF you wish to). hear Parliament, tune in to 2YA during session, usually between 2.30 and 5.30 p.m. and 7.30 and 10.30 p.m. oearnat