OVER THE AERIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 57, 8 March 1935, Page 14

OVER THE AERIAL.

RADIO NOTES.

FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By TUNE-IN.)

Transmissions from IZM have been affected for city listeners recently either by radiation from superheterodyne receivers tuned to IZB, or by heterodynes from Australian B stations. Boy scout listeners and adults interested in the great youth movement will be pleased to know that this evening at 10 o'clock the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, who is at present visiting the Dominion, will speak from 3YA. This talk will be simultaneously broadcast from all the board's main stations. A talk that should prove interesting is scheduled for Monday night next from IYA. The speaker is to be Mrs. B. I\ Richards, a woman with a distinguished literary career) and the title of her talk is "Literary Trends — Criminality in Fiction." She is a daughter of the late Mr. Maurice Hewlett, the famous author, and for some years worked in England with .her father. A new Auckland station, IYZ, was on. the air last Saturday morning—but only for a comparatively few minutes. A few listeners who happened to be near the wave-length of IYX must have received a surprise when they heard an announcer calling, "This is station IYZ testing." This was the call sign specially allotted by the Post and Telegraph Department to the short-wave transmitter, which is used to relay and broadcast sports fixtures where the ordinary means are not available. With this short-wave transmitter set up on a launch last Saturday, the New Zealand rowing championships were broadcast. About 11.30 a.m. a test was carried out from the launch to make sure that the equipment, was in good order for the afternoon's broadcast through IYA. As a test, speech was broadcast by the short-wave transmitter, picked up on the shore and relayed to IYX and received on board the launch through a receiver next door to" the transmitter. The quality of last Saturday afternoon's broadcasts of the rowing events was excellent.

All listeners who have heard Lionello Cecil, the famous Australian tenor, sing during the week from 2YA and 3YA, will doubtless agree that he is one of the most accomplished overseas artkts yet engaged by the Broadcasting Board. His operatic arias and ballad numbers sung have been a delight. Lionello Cecil spent many years in Italy and in other parts of and for over five years took part in all the big operas at the famous La Scala Theatre. Milan. Before coming to the Dominion he fulfilled a long engagement in opera with other big Australian artists from the A.B.C. national stations. His first broadcast from IYA is on Sunday, March 17, when lie will render an operatic programme, including such famous tenor arias as "La Donna e Mobile," "E Lucevan," and another from Gounod's "Faust." On the following Tuesday he will sing again, his numbers including "I Hear You Singing," "Snowy Breasted Pearl," and "Love, Here Is My Heart." On each occasion he will be accompanied liy the full studio orchestra.

The well-known Sydney station 2UW recently started to operate on a "round-the-clock" schedule. This B station starts its 24-hour programme at sunrise and concludes the next morning at the eame time, thus creating a fresh world's record for length of operating time. There are several American stations that operate all night, while in Melbourne 3AK is on the air from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m./' but as these stations have no daytime schedule they do not come anywhere near 2UW's record. From 3 to 5 a.m. daily 2UVV devotes its programme to rebroadcasts of overseas transmissions and news Hems, interspersed with a musical programme. From 5 to 0 a.m. a countrymen's breakfast session is provided, giving them the news of the day before they start working, while from 0 to 7 a.m. is the early morning listeners' breakfast session. The station directors are already receiving hundreds of congratulatory messages upon their enterprise.

Broadcast arrangements are under way already in connection with the King's Silver Jubilee next May. A week of special programmes will be transmitted to the Empire by the Empire short-wave station. His Majesty the King will speak by this means to the Empire. There will be running commentaries on Royal reviews of the Forces; the Dominion Premiers will speak; the chief events, of the King's reign will be reviewed in their turn by competent announcers. There will be a relay from St. Paul'e Cathedral of the national thanksgiving service. Incidentally there are numerous changes and improvements about to take place in the technical side of the Empire transmitter. Every effort is being made to improve this service and to give all parts of the Empire a chance to hear clearly.

FROM IYA NEXT WEEK,

Sunday—9.o a.m., selected recordings; I i.O ajn., relay or service from Mount Eden Congregational Church; i.O p.m., dinner music; 2.0 p.m., selected recordings; 7.0 p.m., relay of service rrom St. Luke's Presbyterian Church; 8.30, concert programme or recordings. Monday.—7.3o p.m., agricultural talk, Mr. H. Woodyear smith, " Suggestions ror Improving the Feed Position ror Winter Months"; 8.0, concert programme (relay to IZH), recordings ar*l one act dramatic play, " The Cavendish Affair," by the J. M. Clark dramatic players; 9.2, talk by Mrs. fl. P.' nichards, " Literary Trends— Criminology in Fiction"; 10.0, music, mirth and melody. Tuesday.—l.so p.m., educational session; 8.0 (relay to I£H) variety programme; 0.2, talk by Mr. Alan Mulgan, "World Affairs"; 0.20 to 11.0, dance music. Wednesday.—B.o p.m., chamber music programme; 0.8, talk by Mr. D'Arcy Cresswell, "Shakespeare's Kings"; 0.20 to 10.0, miscellaneous recordings; 10.0 to 11.0, dance music. . Thursday.—B.o p.m. (relay to IZH), concert programme, including the U.B.C. romantic play, "Chopin"; 9.2, talk by Mr. Willis Alrey, " Europe and Its Strained Domestic Affairs "; 0.20 to 10.0, band programme; 10.0 to 11.0, dance music. Fifiday.—7.3o, sports talk by Gordon Ilutter; 8.0 (relay to IZH), concert programme featuring symphony recordings; fI.S, talk by Rev. A. B. Ghappell, " Historical Research in New Zealand"; 10.5 to 11.0, music, mirth and melody. ■ Saturday.—B.o, concert programme, featuring , abridged opera, " The Barber or Seville" in two acts, and a further series or humourous episodes of " Ebb and Zcb," the country storekeepers.