BROADCASTING

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21967, 16 December 1936, Page 4

BROADCASTING

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMES

3YA, CHRIS TCHURCH (720 Kilocycles) 7 0 to 9.0 a.m.: Breakfast session. 10.0: Devotional service. 10.15: Selected recordings. 11.0: Time signals from the Dominion Observatory. 11.2: Selected recordings. 11.30: Talk by a food expert on "Diet." 11.50: Selected recordings. 12 noon: Lunch music. 2.0 p.m.: Selected recordings. 3.0: Classical music. 4.0: Time signals from the Dominion Observatory. 42: Frost and special weather forecast and light musical programme. 4.30: Sports results. 5.0: Children's hour, conducted by Uncle Alan. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.20: Addington Stock Market reports. 7.30: Time signal from the Dominion Observatory. '-35: Talk, Mr Guy Mannering, "Mountaineering. 8.0: Chimes. Retarding: The London Symphony Orchestra. 8.18: Recording: Elena Gerhardt (mezzo-soprano). 8.24: Arved Kurtz, celebrated violinist. 8.35: Recordings: Heinrich Schlysnus (baritone). 8.48: Boston Symphony Orchestra. 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Talk, Mr George Harper, "The Anniversary of Canterbury." 9.20: Recording: Wilhelm Backhaus (pianoforte), with the 8.8.C. Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adrian Boult, Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 (Brahms). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. Alternative, station, 3YL, 1200 kilocycles. 5.0 p.m.: Selected recordings. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: "Ambassadors of the Microphone." a variety and vaudeville programme. 10.0: Light recital programme.

IYA, AUCKLAND (650 Kilocycles)

-7.0 to 9.0 a.m.: Breakfast session. 10.0: Devotional service, conducted by the Rev. G. McKenzie. 10.15: Selected recordings. 12 noon: Lunch music. 2.0 p.m.; Selected

recordings. 2.30: Classical hour. 3.15: Sports results. 3.30: Light musical programme. 4.0: Special weather report for farmers. 4.30: Sports results. 5.0: Children's session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Holiday talk, by Mr J. Clarke, "Christmas Tours." 8.0: Chamber music programme. Mrs P. Sholto Smith, presents Sonata in D Minor for piano (Beethoven). 8.20: Mrs Harold Owers (mezzo-soprano). 8.30: Haydn Murray (violin and Dorothea Ryan (piano) present the famous "Kreutzer" Sonata for violin and piano (Beethoven), Op. 47, No. 9. 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Talk, Miss C. F. Hull, "The Christmas Spirit." 9.20: Recordings: Jack Jackson's Hotel Orchestra. 9.30: Peter Dawson (bass-bari-tone). 9.37: Eric Coates and Symphony Orchestra. 9.49: Turner Layton (tenor). 9.55: Ambrose and his Orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. A'ternative station, IYX, 880 kilocycles. 5.0 p.m.: Light musical programme. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: "Here Comes the Band," a programme of band music, with spoken interludes, featuring at 8, "Superstition," dealing with the fallacy of card players' objection to persons standing behind them while they are playing. 9.0: Classical recital programme. 10.0: "In Order of Appearance." James Compton (cornetist), Peter Dawson (bass-baritone), and Frederic Bayco (organist). 2YA, WELLINGTON (670 Kilocycles) 7.0 a.m.: Breakfast session. 7.5: "Keep Fit" session, conducted by Mr J. Hanna, Physical Director, Wellington Y.M.C.A. 7.0: Continuation of breakfast session. 10.0: Selected recordings. 10.30: Devotional service. 11.0: Time signals from the Dominion Observatory. 12 noon: Lunch music. 2.0 p.m.: Classical hour. 3.0: Sports results. 3.30: Special weather forecast for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago. 4.0: Time signals from the Dominion Observatory. Sports results. 5.0: Children's session, conducted by Uncle Campbell. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Time signals from the Dominion Observatory. Talk, our gardening expert, "For the Home Gardener.' 8.0; Chimes. A 8.8.C. recorded pro-

gramme. "The Table Under the Tree," an evening In a Continental cafe with Wilfred Rooke Ley. The music is played by Walford Hyden's Orchestra. 8.44: Talk, Dr. Guy H. Scholefield, "World Affairs." 9.4: Weather report and station notices. 9.9: "Shakespeare or Bacon—To Be or Not to Be—ls it Shakespeare? Is it Bacon?" A programme showing how the villagers of Stoke-in-the-Wold hit on a novel scheme to choose their Shakespearean play. 9.51: Serge Krish Instrumental Septet. 9.54: Percy Edgar, Charles Brewer, Mabel France and Gladys Joine (humorous sketch), "The Invalid" (Layton). 10.0: An hour with Jan Garber and his Orchestra. Alternative station, 2YC, 840 kilocycles. 5.0 p.m.: Light musical programme. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Light classical recital. 8.40: Programme of Italian symphonic music, ancient and modern. 10.0: Thirty minutes of light music and humour. 4YA, DUNEDIN (790 Kilocycles) 7.0 to 9.0 a.m.: Breakfast session. 10.0: Selected recordings. 10.15: Devotional service. 10.30: Selected recordings. 10.45: Talk, Mrs E. Barrington, "Cooking by Electricity." 11.0: Selected recordings. 12 noon: Lunch music. 2.0 p.m.: Selected recordings. 3.30: Sports results. Classical music. 4.0: Weather report and frost forecast. 4.30: Light musical programme. 4.45: Sports results. 5.0: Children's session, conducted by Mr Travel Man. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Book talk. 8.0: Chimes. The 8.8.C. Dance Orchestra, "Music in the Air" selection (Hammerstein). 8.10: "Landscape Gardening," a further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and his employer. 8.25: "Music Round the Campfire." 8.40: A 8.8.C. recorded talk, "Conquest of the Air" (No. 8). 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Fifteen minutes of humour, featuring "Darby and Joan" in "Mr Gabbler's Visit." Presented by George Edwards and Nell Stirling. 9.20: In memory of Edward German. Plaza Theatre Orchestra, "Gipsy" suite. 9.36: The Baraldi Trio, "Orpheus With His Lute"; "Beauteous Morn." 9.42: Sylvester Aloha (cornet), "The English Rose." 9.45: Keith Falkner j (baritone). 9.51: Band of H.M. Grena-j

dier Guards. 10.0: Programme of dance music by the 4YA Dance Band, under the direction of Gil Dech. Alternative station, 4YO, 1140 kilocycles. 5.0 p.m.: Selected recordings. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Modern French orchestral programme. 9.0: Variety and vaudeville programme. 10.0: Comedy and light music. DAVENTRY, ENGLAND GSO, 19.76 metres; GSB, 31.55 metres. (New Zealand summer time.) 8.0 p.m.: Big Ben. "Empire Magazine," No. 18. A weekly review of things at Home. Edited by Pascoe Thornton. 8.31: "Foreign Affairs." A talk by Sir Frederick Whyte, K.C.5.1., LL.D. 8.46: The 8.8.C. Empire Orchestra: leader, Daniel Melsa; conductor, Eric Fogg. Overture, "Ruy Bias" (Mendelssohn); Largo ("New World" Symphony) (Dvorak); Serenade for Strings, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"; (a) allegro; (2) romance: (3) minuet; (4) rondo (Mozart); Norwegian Rhapsody, No. 3 (Svensen). 9.40: The news and announcements. 10.0: Close down.