BROADCASTING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 127, 11 March 1936, Page 7

BROADCASTING.

TO-NIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. The wireless programmes to be broadcast to-night are: — 3YA CHRISTCHURCH (416m—720k). 8.0: Chimes. A programme of selected recordings, interspersed with progress reports of the by-election for the mayoralty and three city councillors. 9 0- Weather forecast and station notices. 9,5: Talk, “National Contributions to Civilisation,” Rev. Father James Maguire. 9.20: Selected recordings and further progress reports of the municipal by-election. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. IYA, AUCKLAND (650 k.) 8.0: Recordings: The Capet String Quartette present Quartet in C Ma.joi (Mozart). 8.34: Elizabeth Schumann soprano, (a) “Cradle Song” (b) “Warning” (Mozart); (c) “Up There on the Hill” (Mahler). 8.40: Leo Chermavsky world-famous violinist, with Maynard Wilkinson at the piano, (a) “Kol Nidrei” (Bruch)"?' (b) “Carmen” Fantasie (Bizet, Sarasate) 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Talk: D’Arcy Cresswell, “Old English Ballads.” 920: Recoidings: Orchestra Mascotte, “From Near and, Far” (Waltz Melodies) (arr. Getz, Holme). 9.26: Lance Fairfax (baritone) with orchestra, (a) “Shannon River (Egan and Morgan); (b) “Ihe Stiong Go On” (Siever and Thayer). 9.32: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, “Roumanian Rhapsody No 1 m A Major (Enesco). 9.44: John Lemmon© (flute solos), with piano accompaniment, by Lindley E.vans (a) “Rerveie (Pessad), (b) Valse Bluette (Lemmone). 9.50: Jessica Dragonette (soprano). with orchestra (a) “I irst Love (Du Bynne and Lehar); (b) ‘Bells Across the Meadows” (lvetelbey). 9.56: Orchestra Raymond© with vocal quintette, “Love Is My Life’ Waltz (Strauss). 10.0: M usic > mirth and mel " ody. 11.0: Close down. 2YA. WELLINGTON (526m—570k.) 8.0: Chimes. 2YA Concert Orchestra conducted by Mr Leon de Mauny, “Marche Tartar©” (Ganne) 8.6: Special recordings, “The Easy Chair,” a memory programme of songs and melodies of days gone by. 8.19: 2YA Concert Orchestra, “Three Dream Dances (Coleridge Taylor). 8.29: A ballad recital by Mr J. G. Crawford (baritone), “Muleteer of Malga” (Tortere), “Comrades of Mine” (James), “Captain Mac” (Sanderson). 8.38: 2YA Orchestra “In the Shadows” Morceau (Finck). 8.41: Talk, I)r. Guy H Scholefield, 0.8. E., “World Affairs.” 91: Weather. Station notices. 9.0: ine Gesture,” a radio play in four scenes, dramatised from the story of the same name by E. M. Delafield, and presented by F. W. Barker and Company. 9.25: Recording: The Victor Olof Sextet, instrumental “The Darset Daisy (Bath) 9.28: A dramatic play, Lrast of the Ages: ‘The Duke of Marlborough.’ ” 9.41: Recording: The Victor Olof Sextet, “Supplication” Entra cte (Wood). 9.44: Fifteen minutes of humour, featuring Darby and Joan in “Amateur Theatricals,” presented by George Edwards and Nell Stirling. 10.0: Taik by Dr. Keith Barry, eminent" Australian lectureer and writer, “In Praise of Jazz.” 10.15: Dance music. 11.15: Close down. 4YA, DUNEDIN (790 Kilocycles). 8.0: Chimes. “Music at Your Fireside,” featuring “Garo Mio Ben (Giordani); Sextette from “Lucia di Damma^moor’ ’ (Donizetti). 8.17: A Dark Horse.” A further episode in tl.ie lives of a Japanese houseboy and Ids employer. 8.32: “The Voice of _the People—Peter the Great” ( (pt. IV). One of a series of short plays dealing with the Rulers of the Russian people from the time of Peter the Great. Presented bv George Edwards and Company. 8.0: Talk by Dr. Morris N. Watt, “Moments with the Microscope.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: A 8.8. C. recorded programme, ‘ Old Words to ; New Music.” Book and lyries bv James Dyrenforth. Music by Kenneth-Leslie Smith. Production supervised by Eric Maschwitz. 10.20: Dance music. 11.0: Clo-se down.