BROADCASTING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 196, 28 May 1940, Page 8

BROADCASTING

TO-NIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. The wireless programmes to be broadcast to-night are:— IYA, Auckland (850 k). 7.0: News service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department. British Official Wireless News. 7.10: News and reports. 7,30.: Talk by the Gardening Expert. 8.0: Concert programme. Recording: Orchestra Raymonde, . “The Dancing Doll” (Poldini), 8.5: Recorded features: “One Good Deed a Day” (episode 16); 8.17: “Piccadilly on Parade.” 8.30: “Night Nurse.” 8.43: “Nigger Minstrels.”' 9.0: Daventry news. 9.10: Dominion and district weather reports, and station notices. 9.15: Dance musi?. 10.0: Dance music by Sammy Lee and his Americanadians, relayed from the Metropole Cabaret. 11.0: Daventry news.

2YA S Wellington (526m-570k). 7.0: News' service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department. British Official Wireless News. 7.10: News and reports. 7.10: News and reports. 7.28 to. 7.30: Time signals. * “Across the World in a Thirty-Five Footer” (2): An interview with Miss Marguerite Graham. 7.40: Talk by A. W, Hudson, Massey Agricultural College: “Mole Drainage.” 8.0: Concert programme, “The Shadow of the Swastika” (Episode 9): “The Nazis at War.” 8.15: Now Light Symphony Orchestra, “Romance in E Flat,” “Melody in. F” (Rubinstein). 8.51: John McCormack (tenor), “A Song Remembered” (Coates). 8.54: Orchestre Raymonde, “Musical Box Miniatures” (arr. G-. Walter). 9.0: Daventry news. 9.10: Dominion and district weather reports and station notices. 9.15: Recital by Betty Hall of modern piano compositions, “Two Nocturnes” (Alex Rowley), “Lo Petit Ane Blanc” (Ibert), “Clair de Lune,” “Jardins Sous La Pluie” (Debussy). 9.30: Recordings: Charles Panzera (baritone), “Ballade des Femmes de Paris” (Debussy), (From “Trois Ballades de Francois Villon”). 9.33: The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Walter Goehr, Symphony Nb. 1 in. C Major (Bizet). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Daventry news. 3YA, Christchurch (416m-720k).

7.0: News service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department. British Official Wireless Nojys. 7.10: News and reports. 7.20: Talk by George Bagley: “Personalities and Places in the News.” 7.35: Book Review by H. Winston Rhodes. 8.0: Christchurch Centennial Musical Festival. The Centennial Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andersen Tyrer. Featuring: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor (Tchaikovski). Combined Male Voice Choirs. Conductor: Dr. J. C. Bradshaw. Soloists: Gladys Ripley (contralto), Oscar Natzke (bass), Raymond Beatty (bassbaritone). (Relayed from the Theatre Royal). 10.0: Billy Cotton and his Band, with instrumental interludes by Paul Whiteman’s Bouncing Brass. 11.0: Daventry news. 4YA, Dunedin (790 kilocycles.) 7.0: News service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department. British Official Wireless News. 7.10: News and reports. 7.30: Winter Course Talk by Prof. WAN. Benson: “The Age of the Earth.” 8.0: Band Concert with popular interludes. The Royal Belgian Guards ' Band,', “Sails Pent*” * March (Prevost), “La Muette. de Portici” (Auber). 8.13: Mary Somerville (contralto), “The Lilac Spotted Gown” (Wreford), (“The Carpet” (Sanderson). 8.19': The. Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, “'London Suite” (Coates), 8.28: Novak (novelty solos), “Rosalie” (Porter); “Sunbeams” (Wirges), “Raindrops” (Wirges). 8.36: The Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, “Finlandia, Tone Poem” (Sibelius). 8,44: Mary Somerville (contralto), “The Border Maiden” (Berger), “The Crown” (Rae), “Bonnie Gallowa” (Hornby). 8.50: Grand Massed Brass Bands, “Minstrel Memories,” “March of the King’s Men”. (Plater). 9.0: Daventry news. 9.10: Dominion and district weather reports, and station notices. 9.15: Charlie ICunz (piano), “Charlie Kunz Piano Medley, No. 32.” 9.18: “Those -Wo Love.” 9.44: A further “Charlie Kunz Piano Medley.” 9.47: “Great Expectations.” 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Daventry news.