OVER THE AERIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 102, 1 May 1936, Page 14

OVER THE AERIAL.

RADIO NOTES. FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By TUNE-IN.)

A new feature at IZM stars on Tuesday evening, wlien the first of a series of health talks will be given by Mr. M. Kiinbel.

Listeners tuning in to IZM to-nigli*; will be entertained by two studio plays, both the work of New Zealand writers. These two radio dramas, "Potatoes," by Sirs. Latter, and "French Tragedy," by Trafford, are being put on by the station in conjunction with New Zealand Authors' Week.

YA stations boast of their record libraries of 1400 or 1000 numbers which it has taken years to accumulate. Some Sydney B stations, buy new recordings at the rate of a thousand per month, and they long ago scrapped "Fourth Form at St. Michael's," "Hole in the Road,"

"Teddy Bear's Picnic" and other bcwhiskered and mueh-scratched discs.

Lovers of grand opera will no doubt tune in to 3YA Christchurch on Sunday night at 5.30, when the full recorded presentation of Puccini's opera "La Tosca," in three acts, will be given. Those in the cast comprise some of the finest singers appearing at La Scala Theatre, Milan. They include the famous baritone Apollo Granforte, as Scarpia, the chief of police. Granforte will be well remembered in New Zealand, for about three years figo he toured with the J. C. Williamson, Ltd.'s Imperial Grand Opera Company. The opera is presented by the soloists, chorus and orchestra of La Scala Theatre, conducted by the great maestro Carlo Sabajno.

An illustration of the value of the sports department of IZM to sport and sportsmen is shown by the fact that Mr. Bill Hindman, the station's sports announcer, is constantly being availed of as the medium of introducing to clubs young members eager to participate in wholesome sport. Recently a number of young aspirants, both male and female, have been found a place in hockey, boxing, wrestling and harrier racing. Both the athletes and the clubs are appreciative of Mr. Hindman's services in this direction.

The Friendly Road station, IZB, is closed down for urgent and necessary repairs. A start was made yesterday to dismantle the transmitter fof the purpose of completely overhauling' it. The transmitter will be entirely reconstructed, and while this work is proceeding at high pressure the station will Be off the air for at' least a fortnight. Ever since one of the high aerial masts was -blown down by the gale early in the year the station has been working on a temporary aerial system. It was found impossible to carry on with the existing plant, while the temporary repairs which have been carried out have proved too costly. When the transmitter next comes on the air it should speak with a greater and clearer voice, jfr. John Stannage, the wellknown wireless expert, who recently arrived from Australia to take charge j of the technical side of the station, is superintending the work of overhaul.

The long-expected report to Parliament of the Ullswater Committee on the future of broadcasting in Great Britain has made its appearance. The term of the new charter for the 8.8.C. has been extended for 10 years; there are to be seven governors instead of the present five, and the salary of each is to be £1000 per annum. Comparatively young men are to be appointed to these positions.

With regard to programines, the committee has leanings towards politics and "uplift." Broadcasting is to look to Parliament as the "focnl point of political, thought," and Parliamentary affairs must hold jtheir, place In the news bulletins; "good music" should be encouraged, not only by the music itself, but by "educational courses and explanatory and. introductory talks"; light music shbuld be "of first-class quality and directed to the improvement of" public tasjte; and Sunday programmes should be serious on one wave-length and "lighter and piore popular" on the other. The demand for dance music as an alternative programme is also recognised.

A rather remarkable feature of the report is that seven of its eight members signed it with reservations—Mr. C. R. Attlee and Lord Elton had two each. The one member who was completely satisfied was Lady Reading, the only ■woman on the committee. In his reservations Mr. Attlee thinks it undesirable that the chairmanship of the board of governors should be regarded as "a suitable post for a politician who has retired from full activity"-—with which many people will be in agreement—and he also wants the governors drawn' from other than the "well-to-do classes."

FROM IYA NEXT WEEK. , Sunday—9.o a.m., selected* recordings; 11.0, relay or service from the Mount Eden Presbyterian Church; 1.0 to 2.0 p.m. dinner music; 2.0 to 4.30, selected recordings, featuring, at 3.30, a recorded, abridged version or the romantic opera, "Der Freischutz," by the soloists, chorus and orchestra or the Berlin State Opera House; 7.0, relay or service Irom St. Matthew's Anglican Church; 8.30, concert by the Auckland Municipal Band, relayed from Albert Park.

Monday—7.3o, agricultural talk by Mr. H. Woodyear Smith, an ofllcer or the Department of Agriculture, "Farm Drainage"; 8.0, concert programme, featuring a 8.8.C. programme, "Scrapbook i'or 1914," a medley or memories that will amuse, surprise and be strangely moving; 10.0 to 11.0, music, mirth and melody.

Tuesday—2.o p.m., educational session, relayed Trom the Training College, Epsom; 8.0, concert programme, featuring "The Easy Chair," a memory programme of songs and melodies or days gone byrecordings by Anni Frind and Fred Drissen, and "One Night of Love Memories": 9.5, talk by Mr. 11. G. Bell on "World Affairs"; 9.20 to 1 i.O, dance music.

Wednesday:—B.o, concert programme, featuring Miss Gladys Lorimer, New Zealand soprano, in a recital, "Unknown Masterpieces or the Past"; 0.5, talk by Capt. A. C. Clayton, late or the Roya; Sussex Regiment, "Colours and Battle Honours— Three Centuries or History"; 10.0 to 11.0, music, mirth and melody.

i Thursday—-12.30, relay of mid-week service from St: Matthew's. Church; 7.30 recorded talk by Mr. W. W. Bird. M.A., "The Maori Language"; 8.0, concert programme, featuring from 8.0, "Sixty Minutes or Ballet Music," with vocal Interludes; 9.5, concert by the New Zealand Blind Institute Band, conducted by Lieutenant Bowes and featuring Alan Morton, New Zealand champion cornetist, relayed from the concert hall or the Blind Institute, Parnell; 10.0 to 11.0, dance music.

Friday—7.3o, sports talk by Gordon Mutter; 8.0, concert programme of recordings, featuring, at 0.5, Beethoven's massive "Choral Symphony No 0 in D Minor," played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; 8.10, rebroadcast or 2YA, a talk by Mr. 11. Duncan Hall, a member or the Information Section of the Secretariat or the League or Nations, "The League or Nations and the World Crisis"; 10.5 to 11.5, music, mirth and melody.

Saturday—7.3o p.m., talk by the gardening expert, "The Development of the Garden"; 8.0, concert programme of selected recordings; 10,0 tq 11.15, recorded dance musi?. ' ~ 5-