EMPIRE BROADCASTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 131, 4 June 1936, Page 28

EMPIRE BROADCASTS

COMING WEEK'S FEATURES A wide range of entertainment is .featured in the Empire short-wave broadcasts for the week commencing tomorrow. These programmes, which may be heard daily from 4 p.m. by listeners with short-wave, or all-wave, sets, are transmitted on the following wave-lengths:—GSß, 31.50 metres, GSN, 25.53 metres. New Zealand standard time is given. Tomorrow's programme opens with a thirty minutes concert by Fred Hartley's Novelty Quintet, with Brian Lawrence (Australian vocalist! as assisting artist. At 4.30 A. G. Street may bi heard in a talk, "A Countryman s Diary." This will be followed by a chamber music programme by the Norbert Wethmar Pianoforte Quintet At 5.25 the first of a new series oi talks, under the title, "London Scenes will be broadcast, the speaker being Mr. Harold Nicolson, C.M.G., who win give an intimate account of some of the lesser-known details of the House of Commons. In addition to the House of Commons, the series will include talks on Kew Gardens, the Law Courts, Hyde Park, Westminster Abbey, and the River. These will be given by experts who will be able to speak from the particular angle which the series is intended to emphasise. "The Merry Month of June, a June revue, presented by John Pudney, opens Saturday's programme, at 4 p.m. At 4,35 No. 8 of the series of talks, Down to the Sea in Ships," will be broadcast, the speaker on this occasion beint an officer, whose subject will be Seen From the Bridge." At 4.55 a service will be broadcast from Canterbury Cathedral to celebrate the centenary of the installation of Bishop Broughtoti as first Bishop of Australia. The name of Bishop Broughton is not one which occurs voluntarily to the average man as one of the great pioneers of the Empire, but the fact remains that, of all those who have ever '" and for the Empire, he was one of Uvgreatest forces for good. He was bom in 1788 and was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Barnet and at King's School, Canterbury :Subseauently he became a clerk in the East India House. Then he studied for the Church and was appointed to the then unknown land of Australia.. had jurisdiction over the whole of Australia Van Diemen's Land, and the joining islands, and in 1836 he became the first Bishop of Australia. He w untiring in his visitations around his vast diocese. Some of his journeys were undertaken with great difficult, and danger, but nothing could subdue his apostolic fervour. He when he was in England engaged in raising men and meansforhiswork in Australia. He was buried in Can terbury Cathedral, from which the ser-

vice will be broadcast. Sunday's religious serviee will be a hrnadcast at 4 p.m. from St. Marys (Church 1 of Scotland) This will be followed at 4.52 by a chamber music programme by the ctrattnn String Quartet. At 5.4U ine weekly newsletter and sports summary will be presented. A light classical concert by the 8.8.U Empire Orchestra will open Monday s programme. A talk and a .™ us ' c A interlude are scheduled at . . s resDectively. These will be fol lowed at 5.11. by "The Plays Your Grandparents Loved"— excerpts from old melodramas. Tuesday's programme opens wilha retrospect of some of the more amusing events of the past few months, presented in living form by Cecil Madden. At 4.21 John Simons (Australian pianist) may be heard m a recital of music by Arnold Bax. In Or<kr of Appearance," described as a ™usi cal comedy jig-saw, is scheduled for 4 42 the performers being Olive Groves (sopranoK Jan Van der Gucht (tenor) George Baker (baritone), John Rorke (baritone), the 8.8.C. Revue Chorus, and the Empire Orchestra. A miniature revue, Each Hour of Every Day," will open Wednesdays programme. At 4.30 the weekly a on "Imperial Affairs" will be broadcast bv H V. Hodson and this will be followed, at 4.45, by a speech by the Hon. r G Menzies, Attorney-General of Australia, at a luncheon of the Royal Empire Society. A twenty minutes cinema organ recital by Frederic Bayco: is scheduled for 5.5, and at 5.25 Percy Hutchison, the popular actor-manage^, may be heard in No. 6 of Starlight interviews with famous st ?® e , ' Thursday's programme will be opened bv Sir William Lobjoit, with a talk, "Agrictulure in the British Isles: Horticulture." The 8.8.C. Empire Orchestra may be heard in mus.cal comedy selections at 4.17, and at 5.10 radio play will be presented. All the above programmes include a news session at 5.40, the sessions terminating at 6 p.m.