TODAY’S RADIO

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 280, 21 August 1940, Page 7

TODAY’S RADIO

Empire Broadcasts The National Broadcasting Service will rebroadeast Daventry news or use recordings ol’ Daventry news at the following New Zealand times: (1.0 a.m.; 7.0 a.m.: S.'-’O a.m (summary); 0.15 a.m.: 12.30 p.m.; 1.15 p.m. (main Hems of previous news): 5.-15 p.m.; 9 p.m.: 11.0 p.m. On Sundays the noon transmission will be recorded ’from Daventry and rebroadcast at 1.10 p.m. Transmission 1 from Daventry, directed to Australia, New Zealand and the Far Last, begins at -1.25 p.m. and closes down at 7.-15 p.m. New Zealand time. Transmitters In operation are: GSB (31.55 ni., 9.51 ruc/s.); GSD (25.53 in.. 11.75 mc/s.): GSF (19.82 in., 15.1-1 mc/s.); GSI (10. CO m., 15.2(1 mc/s.): GSP (19.(10 n>„ 15.31 mc/s.). A full news bulletin is given at 5.15 p.m., and u news summary at 7.30 p.m. Additional news bulletins and summaries are broadcast from Daventry during the day, most being receivable in New Zealand. For the convenience of readers who possess shortwave receivers a list of the times and most favourable frequencies for reception follows (New’ Zealand Standard Time):— 12.30 a.m (GSF, 19.52 m., 15.14 mc/s.) 3.30 a.m (GSF, 19.52 rn., 15.14 mc/s.) 5.30 n.rn (GSD, 25.53 m., 11.75 mc/s.) 8.20 fi.m (GSC, 31.52 m., 9.5 S mc/s.) 9.15 a.m (GSF, 19.82 tn.. 15.1-1 mc/s.) 11.0 a.m (GSF, 19.82 in., 15.1-1 mc/s.) 12.30 p.m(GSB, 25.28 m., 11.80 mc/s.) 2 p.m(GSB, 31.55 ni., 9.51 mc/s.) •1.0 p.m (GSB, 31.55 in., 9.51 mc/s.) 11.0 p.m (GSF, 19.82 in.. 15.14 mc/s.) 2YA, Wellington 0.5 u: Weather report for aviators. 7.10: Breakfast session. 7.30: District weather report. 9.30: Recordings. 10.0: Weather report for aviators. 10.10: Devotional service, followed bv recordings. 10.28 to 10.30: Time signals. 10.15: Talk by Margaret. 11.0: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 1.0: Weather report for aviators. 2.0: Classical hour. 3.0: Sports results. Recordings. 3.28 to 3.30: Time signals. Weather report for farmers and frost forecast. 4.0: Sports results. 5.0: Children's session. ti.ls (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News. 7.28 to 7.30: Time signals. 7.40: Talk for the home gardener. 8.0: Music by Popular Composers Series (No. 4): Coleridge-Taylor, (a) The 2YA Concert Orchestra, conducted by Leon de Manny, '‘Hiawatha Ballet Music”; (b) Walter G-lynne (tenor), “Onaway! Awake Beloved." $.24: The Orchestra. “Jolly Robbers” Overture (Suppe): “A Hunting Scene” (Bucalossi). 8.37: Hilda Nobl(contralto), “Morning" (Speaks): “Thoughts” (Fisher); “I Heard a Forest Praying” (De Rose): “Achal by the Sea” (Laurence). 8.49: The Orchestra, “Mystic Beauty” Veil Dance (Finck): “Through Night to Light” (Jaukien). 9.0: Daventry news. Evening prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: “The First Great Churchill.” 9.40: “From the Shows.” 9.45: “The Woman in Black.” Episode 5. 10.0: Jan Savitt and His Tophatters. 11.0: Close of normal programme. 2YC, Wellington 5.0* 6.0: Recordings. 6.45: Signal preparation for Air Force. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Vocal and instrumental works. 8.40: Symphonic programme, featuring at 9.0 the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, playing ••Symphony No. 5 in C Minor" (Beethovenl. 10.0: Variety calling. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington 7.0: Cocktails. 7.35: “Here’s a Queer Thing.” 7.45: The Kingsmen. 7.57: Musical digest. 5.15: “The Adventures m' Marco Polo.” 8.25: Solo artist's spotlight. 8.45: Stars of the musical lirniament. !>.«>: “The Life ot Cleopatra." 9.30: Night Club 10.0: Close down. IYA, Auckland 7.10: Breakfast session. 7.30: District weather report. 10.0: Devotional service. 10.15: Recordings. 11.0: Talk by Margaret. 11.10: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Recordings. 2.30: Classical music. 3.30: Sports results. Light musical programme. -1.0: Weather report for farmers. 4.30: Sports results. 5.0: Children's session. 6.15 (approx.): Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News. 8.0: The Busch String Quartet, Quarter in C Minor. Op. 51, No. 1 (Brahms). 8.3 i: .Tames Leighton (baritone), “The Old Bard’s Song’* (Roughton); “The Pibroch’’ (Stanford); “Silver” (Armstrong Gibbs) : “Full Fathom Five” (Martin Shaw). 8.46: Frederick Grinko (violin) ami Watson Forbes (viola). “Sarabando with Variations” (Handel, arr. Halvorsen). 8.54: Elena Gerhardt (mezzo-soprano). “Vorborgenheit” (Strauss); “Woliin” (Sohubert) 9.0: Daventry news. Evening prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: The Marshalls. 9.42: “Three Months Prisoners on the Altmark.” 9.51: Graeie Fields. 9.54: Louis Levy and his orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close of normal programme. 3YA, Christchurch 7.10: Breakfast session. 10.30: Devotional service. Recordings. 11.0: Talk by Margaret. 11.10: Women’s session, conducted by Mrs. L. E. Rowlatt. 11.30: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.o:'Recordings. 3.0: Classical music. 4.0: Frost ami weather forecast, and light musical programme. 4.30: Sports results. 5.0: Chil dren’s session. 6.13 (approx.) : Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: Nows. 7.20: Addington Stock Market Reporl. 7.32: Winter Course talk, by F. A. Shurrock and L. 11. Booth: “Things as Seen by a Sculptor.” 8.0: Readings by O. L. Simmanco. “Midnight Adventure,” by J. Jefferson Farjeon. 8.22: Oscar Natzke (bass). “The Song of ITybrias the Cretan” (Elliott); “Hoar Mo Te Winds and Waves” (Handel). 8.29: “The Mist of the Years.” 9.0: Daventry news. ' Evening prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: Ringside description of professional wrestling contest (relayed from the Theatre Royal). 10.30 (approx.): Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close of normal programme. 4YA, Dunedin fi.sO: Weather report for aviators. 7.10: Breakfast session. 9.30: Recordings. 10.0: Weather report for aviators. Recordings. 10.15: Devotional service. 10.50: Talk by Margaret. 11.0: Talk by Miss D. McStay. “Cooking by Electricity.” 12.0: Community sing. 1.0: Weather report. 1.25 (approx.) /Recordings. 3.15: A.C.E. talk. “New Puddings.” 3.30: Sports results. Classical music. 4.0: Weather report nnd frost ■forecast for farmers. 4.30: Light music. 4.45: Sports results. 5.0: Children’s session. 0.15 (approx.): Dinner music. 0.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News. 7.30: Talk. “Helpful Hints to ’Motorists.” 8.0: “The Bold Pad Buccaneers.” 8.15: “Ravenshoe.” S.2S: “illolia Land.”' 8.42: “The Fourth Form nt St. Percy's.” 5.54: Muriel Caddie Novelettes Trio from the Studio. 9.0: Daventry nows. Evening prayer. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: Muriel Caddie Novelettes Trio. 9.23: “Soldier of Fortune.'’ 10.0: Guy Lombardo and liis Royal Canadians. 11.0: Close of normal programme.