EMPIRE BROADCASTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 28

EMPIRE BROADCASTS

FEATURES FOR THE WEEK

Following are brief particulars of the 8.8.C. short-wave broadcasts to New .Zealand .during . the week, commencing tomorrow. The programmes commence at 4.45 pJm. daily. They may be heard on the following wavelengths:—GSß, 31.55 metres, or GSD 25.53 metres. ; - ' ' ■ ■

Tomorrow's session will open with a programme by the Victor Olof Sextet. This will be followed at 5.10 p.m. by a commentary on the Olympic Games from the Olympic Stadium, Berlin. At 5.25 a. talk will be given on the Cayman Islands by A. W. Cardinal!. "Pastoral," a programme iri praise of quiet things, is scheduled for 5.40. At 6.45 there will be broadcast an eye-witness's account of the Olympic Games, from Berlin. . : SAXITBDAY. A feature of special interest to New Zealanders is included in Saturday's programme—a recital at 5.1 p.m. by Arthur Alexander, a New Zealand pianist who is well known in Wellington.- -At 5.30 there will be a campfire sing-song by Scouts f ronv at Home arid abroad. This will be preceded by a recording of a speech by the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell.1 At- 6.10 a commentary on the Olympic Games will be broadcast from Berlin, and at 6.45 there will be an eye-witness's account of the Games. , -V ;;' : SUNDAY. • . Sunday's religious service will be from Corpus Christi, Weston-super-Mare (Roman Catholic). This will be followed, at 5.36, by a light classical concert by the- 8.8.C. • Empire Orchestra, lasting. tiU 6.25 when' the weekly newsletter will be presented. MONDAY. "London Pie," a musical comedy, will open Monday's programme, " At 5.15 T. S. Leach will give a further talk in the series "Down to the.Sea in Ships," the subject on this occasion being "Sea Harvests.". At 5.35 the 8.8.C. Empire Orchestra may be heard in popular music, with Edward Reach (tenor) as; assisting vocalist. TUESDAY. Tuesday's programme will be opened with a variety cameo by Sydney Howard. At 4.57 Angus Robertson may be heard in a pianoforte recital. This will be followed, at 5.15, by "Pithead. Stories—No. \3,'V the subject this week being "The Collier's Tale." At 5.35 Billy Gerhardi and the Piccadilly Hotel Orchestra .may be heard in a dance ■. music "programme,, lasting till 6.5, when listeners will be taken'on a visit to the Empire transmitters at Daventry*.: the plant and staff being described by li. W. Hayes. At 6.45 an «ye-witness's account of the Olympic Games will be broadcast. WEDNESDAY. .Two New Zealanders are included in Wednesday's programme, which will open with No.'3 of "Empire Magazine," comprising; "visitors, types, stunts," a sketch,-and musical novelties.'? At 5.20 a further ; instalment of ""In England Now" will be presented, followed, at 5.45, by a.recital by the New Zealand artists, Ruth Perry (mezzo-soprano) and Kathleen Levi (pianoforte). At 6.10 a commentary on the Olympic Games will be broadcast, and at 6.45 an eyewitness's account of -theVGames will be broadcast from Berlin. THURSDAY. The 8.8.C. Empire Orchestra will open. Thursday's programme, At 5.40 an eye-witness's account of the' opening, and the first session, of the chess congress at University College, Nottingham; will be broadcast. "Surrey—the County Suburban" will be featured in a broadcast at 5.55.