OVER THE AERIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1937, Page 12

OVER THE AERIAL.

RADIO NOTES.

FROM FAR AND NEAR.

(By TUNE-IN.)

A talk on the new motor regulations and_road code will be piven from IZM at 7 p.m. on Sunday by the secretary of the Automobile Association. Auckland.

On Sunday evening at 7.30 Mr. I. F. Montague and his Talbot Player* will present from the studio of IZM a gripping one-act play, "Things of Courage." , Some striking effects are included' in this play, the scene of which is laid in Berlin.

To-night from IZM 'Tain,"' of IZM. is to present the eleventh episode of the humorous sketch "Modernism.r Unui." Judging by the big "fan thesu sketches are being appreciated by listeners. This week "Pam" , takes her charge to Mount Cook.

2CR Cumnock, the latest of the Australian national regional stations has an output of 10 kilowatts and a. frequency of 550 kilocycles (on the extreme end of the dial on most receivers). The studio is at Orange, Western New South Wales, and the new station will be a competitor with 2GZ.

The new Daver.try station, with its twenty-three separate aerials, should bo able to cover the Empire at any hour with speech and music of adequate volume to compete with anything from the European continent. ' The many different aerials are necessary, because wave-length has to be considered for its carrying power in terms of direction, and the position of the sun over the route.

The Travelogue session from IZM on Sunday evenings is proving immensely popular with listeners to the Manurewa station. This Sunday evening Mrs. E. R. Armitage and Mr. 'Brian Dunningham will take listeners through industrial England and Wales. In the Social Justice session the speaker will be the Rev. Mrs. M. Dreaver, whose subject is "Social Justice for New Zealand."

This week's broadcast of the Coronation ceremony was unique. It was made in 13 different languages, and was later rebroadcast translated into other tongue*. The number of listener« can only be conjectured, but it is certain that they ran into many millions. There is no doubt that the unseen audience has established another world's record. Possibly the last shot in the "partiality war" being waged by very Tory Tories al>out the 8.8.C. has been fired by the Australian Prime Minister. Mr. J. A. Lyons. He had a shortwave radio set installed in his office at Federal Parliament House. Canberra, during the abdication crisis and now writes the following to the 8.8.C: "I was so impressed by the impartiality and reliability of the 8.8.C-. news that I have now decided to put in a permanent shortwave radio installation, specially to lii-ten in to Daventrv."'

GranV Scottish Radio Club still eontinr ■ ; to grow, each week the mail bilging new members anxious to join up. To-night "Gran" introduces to IZM a world-travelled Scot in the person of Captain Reid, of the Brandon, at present in port. He will no doubt have much to interest all listeners. On Sunday, weather permitting, the Auckland and District Pipe Band will play selections from the station, while a feast of Scottish music and story will l>e heard from the studio on Thursday, May 20. when Gran's second radio concert is billed to take place.

An interesting feature from the YA stations prior to the relay of the Coronation ceremony from 2YA was the presentation for the first time of two choral works by two Wellington composers. "Arise. 0 Britain." by Claude White, and "Homeland,"' by Claude Hayden. Accompanied by a full symphonic orchestra, the Wellington Choral Society sang Elgar's famous work. '"It Comes From the Misty Ajjes." from the "Banner of St. nporjre." The fanfares formings part of the programme were written specially for the occasion by Mr. T. ,T. Kirk-Burnand. formerly programme organiser at IYA. and now attached to the head office of the National Broadcasting Service.

FROM IYA NEXT WEEK. Sunday—!>.c> a.m. and lO.n. report or play in the cricket miitcli. »w Zealand v. liiiimorgran, iit CnrdilT; selected recording's until I i.o; li.o. relay or service from salvation Army. Newton Mall; i.ti to J.i) p.m.. dinner music; i.o u> 4.30, .selected recordings; rentiirinjr. at :t.:to. Arthur Sclinabel, pianist, witU the London Symphony Orchestra, playing- Mozart's "Concerto in B Flat"; 0.0, children's song- service; T.O. relay or service from the I'itt street Methodist Church; 8.15, selected recording-s; S.ao. concert programme, featuring music by Sir Kdward Klsrar; <>.O, talk by the »iovernor-rienernl, "The King-Oeorg-e V. Memorial Fund"; rollowed by further Elgar compositions.

Monday—B.o p m.. concert programme, featuring recitals or music by British composers, with items by Alan row,

; : -inist, Owenda Weir, soprano; F.alla hciiiiis, 'cellist: liobert simmers, baritone, and Vincent Aspey, violinist; o.r>. ring-side commentary on the professional boxing; match relayed from the Town Hall; 10.0 to 11.0, music, mirth and melody.

Tuesday—7.o a.m., 8.0, and 9.0, report of play in the cricket match. New Zealand v. Olamorgan, at CardilT; 8.0, rebroadcast or an address I'rom 2YA by Dr. Stout, "Tile King , (leorg-c V. Memorial Fund": S.IO, a recorded presentation or the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "'I he Pirates or I'eu/.auce";

B.:tr>. half an hour's music by Kritlsh organists; 10.0 to I 1.0, an hour w-itti Marry Hoy Hiid his orchestra, with interludes hv Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye.

Wednesday—T.(> a.m.. S.O and 0.0, report or play in the cricket match. New Zealand v. Glamorgan, at Card I IT; 1-2 noon, relay of community singing- from the Town Hall; 8.0. ron.-ert programme, reaturing Madame Kate Campion, soprano, the studio string- orchestra and Colin Wood, baritone; 10.0 to li.o, music, mirth and melody.

Thursday—7.o a.m., 8.0 and 0.0, report of play in the cricket match, .New Zealand v. Oxford University; 7.30. talk by Professor 11. Uelshiiw, '-Problems or the Pacific, - ' IN'o. 5 or the series, "United States or America"; 7.45, talk by Mrs. J. Terry, "This Changing World" (It) "Change in the Home"; 8.0, concert programme, featuring the- recorded presentation, "Mutiny on the Bounty," a dramatic narrative or the sea, produced in New Zealand: 10.5 to I 1.0, "Two Swing Bands and a Crooner/' an hour with Bob Crosby and Benny Goodman, with interludes by Bing Crosby. Friday—7.o a.m., 8.0 and 9.0, report or play in the cricket match, New Zealand v. O.xrord University, at Oxford; 7.30, sports talk by Gordon Mutter; 8.0 to 9.0, "An Hour of Reading and Music," readings or prose and verse by D'Arcy Cresswell. with appropriate music; 0.5 to 10.0, recital by Stella Power, Australian coloratura

I soprano; Hi.o to 11.0, music, mirth and melody. ' Saturday—7.o a.m.. 8.0 and 0.0. report 01 , play in the ci i< ket match. .New Zealand . v. Oxford University, at Oxford: !S.o. organ ; recital by Kw.irt l..\ne. relayed from the Christian Science church. Synvinds strict: recital by stell;i Power. rulur;iti!r:i j fiiprniin. I'niloved by recording's: 10.10 to i ll.is, recorded dance music, with interludes by J. Papescli, piano accordion.