BROADCASTING SERVICE FORECASTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 146, 23 June 1938, Page 28

BROADCASTING SERVICE FORECASTS

Galsworthy's "Strife." Admirers of the plays written by Le John Galsworthy have been well op served this year by the national sta- an tions. Several of this notable author's Nc works have been broadcast at various * times, two of the most noteworthy be- m ine "Old English" and "Loyalties. At 9.5 p.m. on Sunday "Strife," , a play wj dealing with an industrial dispute in A] which reconciliation, much suffering by the participants, is occasion- gu ed by the death of the wife of the men's leader, will be broadcast from — 2YA f Some More Plays. Three other interesting plays, also produced by the National Broadcasting Service, will be performed during the week ending July' 2. "The Fatal Step," a problem play for radio by R. E. Grice-Hutchinson and Charles Gardiner, is to be broadcast by 3YA on June 26. "Mingled Yarn," which touches upon some totally imaginary _ incidents in the life of William Shakespeare, and which was written for radio presentation by the well-known Australian playwright Edmund Barclay will be heard from 2YA on June 29. On the following evening 3YA will present "Sterner Stuff," a drama of ambition and retribution in the Yorkshire mills. Lovers of grand opera are catered for by IYA and 4YA on the evening of June 26. From the northern station a recorded presentation of Wagner's ; "Tristan and Isolde" will be broadcast. .while an extremely interesting operliatic progrmame has been compiled for 4YA in the form of excerpts from the works of three German composers —Gluck, Weber, and Wagner. Opening of Parliament. Tuesday, June 28, heralds the opening of Parliament for the coming session. His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, Lord Galway, will perform the opening ceremony at 2.30 p.m. and for the benefit of' interested listeners 2YA will broadcast the proceedings. June 29 is the date arranged by the Dunedin Orchestral Society for the first concert ■ of the fifty-first season. The conductor is Mr. C. Roy Spackman. 4YA will relay this event from the Concert Chamber of Duncdin's Town Hall. Figures in Sport. "Sports Club," a regular weekly feature from 2YD since this station's inauguration, has proved a popular session. Wrestlers, "golfers, Rugby footI bailers, cricketers, jockeys, trainers, bowlers, tennis stars, in fact all personalities and events classified in the sporting category, come to the 2YD microphones for a period of friendly intimacy with the listener. Often it is revealed that apart from the activity which brings them. renown some of these sportsmen possess other talents of unsuspected merit. Such a one is Cowboy Dick Raines, American wrestler visiting New Zealand. He will be heard from.2YD at 8.15 p.m. on June 27,' when the listener will discover that apart from being a pleasing speaker with a ready wit, this formidable matman can perform on the harmonica with the virtuosity of the famous Larry Adler. Visiting Artists. Danny Malone is to appear at 3YA on .June 26. He will then go to Auckland to sing at the IYA studios on June 30 and July 2. The Auckland main station will also broadcast Frederic Collier on June 26 and 28. COMING TALKS This evening and Monday evening > next, 2YA listeners will have an ppportunity of hearing Mr. W. D'Aircy Cresswell, the New Zealand poet and essayist, who has, in the past few years, given many broadcasts from IYA. Mr. Cresswell has a high reputation as a talker on literary subjects, and a reader, and for some months past has given a weekly reading of prose and verse in the IYA programmes. He will give three talks at 2YA, the first this evening, on "Modern Poetry," including the reading of extracts from the poets considered. Mr. Cresswell is leaving for England shortly. Mr. G. Koshnitsky, a Russian, who has settled in Australia, and is chess ' champion of New South Wales, is making a tour of New Zealand under the auspices of the New Zealand Chess association. Mr. Koshnitsky is to talk ' on chess at IYA tomorrow evening.

The team- of negro debaters from Le Moyne College, Tennessee, is to open a tour of New Zealand next week, and will debate with teams from; the New Zealand universities. The debate in Auckland on Tuesday evening will be broadcast from station IZM, and the following evening the manager of the team, Professor B. G. Alexander, will give a talk at IYA on "Let's Visit America." Professor Alexander will speak on different aspects of the same subject at the other centres.