FROM THE NATIONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 55, 2 September 1937, Page 26

FROM THE NATIONALS

COMING WEEK'S PROGRAMMES

With the exception of Essie Ackland, Reginald Morphew, and Jimmie Taylor, the programmes from the national stations for the coming week do not include any of the overseas artists who have entertained New Zealand listeners during the past few weeks. A wide variety of recorded music supplies the major portion of the programmes from the four main stations on Sunday. The after-church concert from 2YA on Sunday evening includes a recital of ancient and modern French music by Francis Bate, violoncellist, and Gladys Vincent, violinist. At 8.45 listeners will be entertained with fifteen minutes of cathedral music by the Schola Cantorum. From IYA a concert by the Auckland Municipal Band will be relayed from the Town Hall, with vocal interludes by Mr. J. G Gasparich (baritone). A complete recorded presentation .of the grand opera "Carmen" is scheduled by 3YA, while from 4YA listeners may hear the 8.8.C. recorded programme, "King George the Fifth." Chamber music and wrestling are 2YA's offering on Monday eyening. From 3YA a pianoforte recital by Mr. Andersen Tyrer, examiner in music for Trinity College of Music, London, is the main feature in a programme of classical music commencing at 9.20 p.m., preceded by a programme .featuring the Woolston Band. At 9.24 4YA will present "Blind Man's Buffer," an original radio play by Edmund Barclay. A popular programme from 8 p.m., and wrestling from 9.5 p.m., comprise the offering from IYA. The programmes scheduled for Tuesday are of a widely diversified nature. Auckland's programme is of a popular nature. 2YA schedules classical recordings. From 3YA the principal feature is episode 6 of the serial play "Westward Ho!" The Kaikorai Band is the central feature of 4YA's programme. All the main stations will broadcast a running description of the match South Africa versus Southland at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday. The principal feature of the coming programmes will be the inter-university debate between Victoria College, Wellington, and Canterbury College, the subject being, "That the North Island has Contributed More to the Advancement of New Zealand than the South Island."

A relay by 2YA of the public concert from the Wellington Town Hall, with Essie Ackland, Reginald Morphew, Noel Newson, and Vincent Aspey, is the principal entertainment scheduled in the programmes for Thursday evening.

In the programmes to be broadcast on Friday evening the main feature is the winning oration in the Plunket Medal Oratory Contest for 1937, to be broadcast by 2YA at 8.48, the speaker being Mr. P. Earle, and the subject "Youth." ■'■••■•■•

Miscellaneous programmes are scheduled by all stations for Saturday evening, with Essie Ackland, Reginald Morphew, and Dave Howard (English saxophonist-comedian) appearing in person before 2YA's microphone.