TO-NIGHT’S RADIO

Evening Star, Issue 22844, 30 December 1937, Page 1

TO-NIGHT’S RADIO

4YA (790 kc), Dunedin. 4.30: Light music. 4.45: Sports results. 5: Children’s hour ; conducted by Big Brother Bill. 6: Dinner 7 : News and reports. 8: Chimes. The Viennese Waltz Orchestra. 8.10: Leslie Sarony (comedian). 8.16: The Berlin Piano Trio. 8.22; “ Bill and 'Erb ” in a humorous topical dialogue. 8.37: Ambrose and his Orchestra. 8.40: A talk by Professor 11. Lawson, ‘ New Year Customs.’ 9; Weather. Station notices. 9.5 • Variety and Rhythm. 10: Music, mirth, and melody. 11: Close down. 4YO (1,140 kc), Dunedin, 5; Recordings. _6: Close down. 7: After-dinner music. 8; Miscellaneous classical recital programme. 9 : ‘ Gems of the Operas. 10: Light recitals. 10.30: Close down. 3YA (720 kc), Christchurch. 5: Children’s hour, conducted by Rainbow Man. 6: Dinner music. 7: News and reports. 7.30; Time signals. 8: The Kingsmen. 8.17: ‘ The Old Fox,’ Ironical Psychology. 8.42: ‘ Everything is Rhythm ’ selection. 8.48: ‘ The Haunted Ship ’ (Minidrama). 9: Weather. Station notices. 9.5; Talk by Mr J. H. E. Schroder, ‘New Year Resolutions.’ 9.20; Dance music. 11: Close down, 2YA (570 kc), Wellington. 5: Children’s hour, conducted by Uncle Pat. 6: Dinner music. 7: News and reports. 7.30: Time signal. ‘Who’s Who and AVhat’s What?’ A ramble in the news by Coranto.. 7.40: Talk, Our Book Reviewer, ‘ Current Books.’ 8: Chimes. Popular programme. Geraldo Orchestra, with Cyril Grantham, the Top Hatters, and Marjorie Steddeford. 8.8: ‘ Home Brew for ■ Supper.’ The Japanese houseboy. 8.20: Roy Smeck Hawaiian Serenaders. 8.23: ‘The Coffee Stall Mystery,’ a radio comedy by Stuart Ready. 8.36: Geraldo Orchestra. 8.40: Talk by Mr M. M. Cooper, New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, ‘ Cricket on the Village Green.’ 9; Weather. Station notices. 9.5; A recital programme; a violin and Hammond organ recital by Ava Symons and Cement Howe. 9.21: A recital by Rex Harrison (baritone). 9.33: Recordings ; Egon Petri (pianist). 9.48: Miss Mona Caldwell (mezzosoprano). 10.1 : Music, ' mirth, and melody. .11; Close down.

IYA (650 kc), Auckland. 5; Children’s session, conducted by Cinderella. 6: Dinner music. 7: News and reports. .8: Concert programme. Reacting of prose' and verse by Mr D’Arcy Cresswell with appropriate music. Boswell’s ‘ Life of Johnson ’ (continued); Lamb’s ‘ New Year’s Eve’; Bach’s Fugue in Q Minor ’ ; Haydn’s Symphony No. 6. 9; Weather. Station-notices. 9.5: A recorded ■ presentation, ‘ Revue in Rhyme.’ • 9.40: Light music and dark mystery at the “Cafe Continental.” 10: “Chick Webb Entertains.” 11: Close down. SHORT WAVE PROGRAMMES (New Zealand summer times are given.) Empire Stations (16.86 m, 19.76 m, 25.53 m, 31.55 m), Daventry. 8.15 p.m.: Big Ben. The chamber music of Schubert (4). The Pougnet-Morrison-Pini Trio Jean Po.ugnet (violin), Anthony Pini (violoncello), Angus Morrison (pianoforte). 8.55; ‘ Food for Thought.’ Three short talks on matters of topical interest. 9.15; Viennese Waltzes. 9.25: The news and announcements. Greenwich time signal at 9.45. 9.45: ‘Round London at Night.’ London’s entertainments on tap. 10.25: Close ‘down.

VLR (31.34 m), Lyndhurst. 8.30: Chimes. Fifteen minutes of popular music. 8.45: Sporting news and notes. 9: News in French for listeners in New Caledonia and the New Hebrides. 9.20: National news bulletin. 9.30: Queensland and North Australian news bulletin. 9.40: New r s, markets, and weather, 10: ‘Do You Remember?’—l937 in retrospect. 11.30: Popular overtures by the A.B.C. (Melbourne) Symphony Orchestra. 0.30: Australasian news service. 0.50; Dance music. 1.30: Close down.

To-morrow. —2.35 p.m.: ‘At Home and Abroad.’ “ The Watchman.” 2.50: Musical interlude. 3: Time, signal. Victorian nows. 3.5: Interstate weather notices. 3.15: Stock Exchange report. 3.20; Musical programme. 7.15: Close down.

Radio-Colonial, Paris. On 24.24m.—7 p.m.: French news 7.20: Records. 9.40: News in English 9.50; Records. 10: Close down.

6u 19.G8m. 11.45: Talk. Midnight; News iu English. 0.15: Concert from Toulouse. 1: Concert from Paris. 2: Talk on international affairs. 2.10: ‘ Life in Paris.’ 2.20: Records. 2.30: Melodies of Emmanuel Bondeville, sung by Miss Helene Raudry; introduction by M. Carol Berard. 4: Close down. On 24.25m.—T0-morrow, 5.15 a.m.: News. 6: ‘ This Week’s Gramophone Records.’ 6.45: Fifteen minutes with the poets. 7: News. 8.10; News in English. 8.30: Relay. 11: Close down. On 25.60m.—T0-morrow, 11.15 a.m.; Records. 12.15: News. 1: Talk. 1.15: Close down. 3: Records. 4.30: News in English. 4.45: Records. G: Close down. 2RO, Rome. On 25.4m.—11.43 p.m.: Varied programme from the Italian stations. 1.20: Mediterranean hour —news commentator, music. 2: Near alid Far East—news in English, concert, sports, etc. 4.20: Italian East Africa—news, concert, etc. On 31.13 m 5.30 a.m.: Arabian hour—news and concert of Arabian music. 7.10; Varied programme from the Italian stations. 10.30: Argentine—news in Spanish. 2: American hour —news in English, concert of request numbers, etc.

JZJ (25.42 m), Tokio. To-morrow.—l a.m.: News in Jap : anese. 1.15; A movie story by Tosm Azuma. 1.35: News in English. 1.45: News in Chinese. 2: Close down.