EMPIRE BROADCASTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 74, 24 September 1936, Page 26

EMPIRE BROADCASTS

PROGRAMMES FOR THE WEEK

Following are brief details of the programmes for New Zealand from the 8.8.C. Empire Short-wave Station for the week commencing tomorrow. The programmes commence daily at 545 p.m., the wave-length being: GSD, 25.53 metres; GSB, 31,55 metres. Friday.—Tomorrow's programme will be opened by the 8.8.C. Empire Orchestra, with Lauri Kennedy, Australian cellist, as soloist. At 6.46, P. Thurston Holland will present No. 2 of "Gypsy Music." At 7.31 "A Syncopated Serenade" will be broadcast. Saturday.—Fred Hartley and his Novelty Quintet will open Saturday's programme with popular musical selections. At 6.26, "Game, Set, and Match a review of the summer sporting events—will be broadcast. A folk-song recital by Winifred Davis (mezzosoprano) is scheduled for 6.54. At 7.10 Reginald Arkell will present a further episode in the series "In England Now. Sunday—Sunday's religious service will be broadcast from St. Mary's Lowe House St. Helen's (Roman Catholic). This will be followed by a recital by Samuel Kutcher (violin). At 6.56 a recital of classical songs will be broadcast by Ethel Ewins (Australian contralto) and Victor Harding (Australian bass-baritone). Monday.—Monday's programme will be opened by the 8.8.C. Empire Orchestra with popular music and selections. This will be followed, at 6.30, by a special fishing industry programme. At 7.10 Janet Powell (contralto) may be heard in a recital ot modern vocal compositions. Tuesday.—A Scots concert will open Tuesday's programme, followed at 6.20 by a talk. At 6.35 there will be a pianoforte interlude by Dorothy Grimstead A sea voyage in sound, under the title "The Round Trip" is scheduled for 6.45.' Wednesday. — Wednesdays programme will be opened with a programme of chamber music by the Isolde Menges String Quartet. At 6.30 H. V. Hodson will speak on "Imperial Affairs," and this will be followed at 6 45 by a selection of new dance tunes. At 6.56 Empire Magazine No. 7 will be broadcast.

Thursday.—The 8.8.C. Dance Orchestra will open Thursday's programme with modern dance music. At 6.15 "Concert in Camera," a musical burlesque, will be presented. This feature gives a picture of one side of life in London during the year 1897. A talk at 6.50 and a novelty instrumental recital at 7.5 are the other features on Thursday's programme. A news session is broadcast at 7.25 each evening, the stations closing down at 7.45.