TO-NIGHT’S RADIO

Evening Star, Issue 22248, 28 January 1936, Page 1

TO-NIGHT’S RADIO

KING'S FUNERAL REBROADCAST Scheduled radio programmes for th* main national stations to-night will ba drastically revised in view of the intention to conduct a rehroadcast of tha Empire station (GSD, Daventry) between 9.30 and 10.45, when a description of the late King George’s funeral will bo heard from outside Westminster Hall and St. James’s Palace. From 10.45 to 1 a.m. a rebroadcast of a special recorded programme from 2YA, Wellington, will be carried out by Dunand the other centres. Between 1 and 2 a.m. (approximately) air stations will resume the broadcast of Daventry for the arrival of the cortege at Windsor _ and the funeral service, the two minutes’ silence to be observed at 1,30 a.m. ' 4YA, Dunedin.—4.3o: Light musical programme. 4.45: Sports results. 5: Children's session. 6: Dinner music, 7: News and reports. 8: Chimes. Programme of recordings. 8.40: Talk by Mr Roland Poster, director of tha Opera School of the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music, ‘ Woman’s Place in Music.’ 9: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: March and selection by the Salvation Army, Citadel Band (conductor, Mr A. W. Millard). 9.30-2 a.m.: See above. 1 4YO, Dunedin.—s: Selected recordings. 6: Close down. 7: After-dinner music. 8: Modern English sonata recital, featuring works by Arnold Bax and Frederick Delius, with concerted vocal interludes. 9: Chamber music recital, featuring at 9 p.m.: D’lndy’s Suite for Flute, Violin, Viola, ’Cello, and Harp, Op. 91. And at 9.25 p.m. i Schumann’s Piano Quintet in B Flat Major, Op. 44. 10: Close down. 3YA, Christchurch.—s: Children’s hour. 6; Dinner music. 7: News and reports. 7.30: Time signal. Talk by Mr E. J. Bell, ‘Books.’ 8: Chimes. Presentation of theme programme, ‘ Firelight,’ a dream fantasy by lan R. M'Lean—a whimsical musing on the power of thought stimulated by music, transporting us back into the past (narrator, Mr .Harold Shaw). 9; Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Reserved. 9.30-2 a.m.: See first paragraph 2YA, Wellington.—s: Children’s hour. 6; Dinner music. 7: News and reports. (Time signal'at 7.30.) 7.40: Talk by a representative of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, ‘ Coaching for Athletes.’ 8: Chimes, A classical and symphonic programme, featuring works of modem English. ■ composers (recordings). 8.40: Talk by Dr Maurice . L.aserson, ‘Some Leading Personalities ,of..Geneva.’ 9: Weather report and station notices. 9.6: A recital by Miss Stella Power, Australia’s coloratura soprano, with piano accompaniment. 9.17; An illustrated talk by Madame Elsie Betts-Vincent, ‘ Tha Music of England.’ 9.30-2 a.m.: Sea first paragraph. IYA, Auckland.—-5: Children’s session (‘ Richard the Lionheart ’ at 5.45). 6: Dinner music. 7: News and reports. 8: Concert programme. Record, orchestra. 8.10: ‘Eb and Zeb, the Country Storekeepers,’ in another humorous episode (recordings). 8.20; ‘ Music at Your Fireside ’ (recordings) . 8.35: ‘ A Tender Heart,’ a further episode in the lives of a J apanese houseboy and his employer (recordings). 8.49: Miss Russell-Fergusson, soprano, will be heard in a presentation of Hebridean folk-songs, with clarsach accompaniment. 9: Weather, report and station notices. 9.5: Talk by Mr H. G. Bell, ‘World Affairs.’ 9.20: Dance music. 9.30-2 a.m.: Seo first paragraph.