TO-NIGHT’S RADIO

Evening Star, Issue 23500, 14 February 1940, Page 1

TO-NIGHT’S RADIO

4YA (790 kc), Dunedin

4.30: Light musical programme. 4.45: Sports results, 5: Children’s session. 5.45 : Dinner music. 7 : News service. 7.30: Book talk. 8: ‘ Ravenshoe.’ 8.15: ‘Bold, Bad Buccaneers.’ 8.28: ‘ The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.’ 8.40: ‘Westward Hoi’ 8.53: Charlie Kunz (piano), ‘ Charlie Kunz Piano Medley, No. 26.’ 9: Reserved. 9.20: Weather report and station notices. 9.25: ‘Thrills.’ 9.38: ‘ Khyber and Beyond: Lost in Turkestan.’ 10.6: An hour of modern dance music, featuring the bands of Henry Busse, Van Alexander, and Hal Kemp, with vocal interludes by Bing Crosby. 11: Close of normal programme. During the war this station will be on the air till midnight.

To-morrow.—6 a.m.: News and recordings. 6.50; Weather report for aviators. 7: Chimes. Breakfast session. 10; Weather report for aviators. Recordings. 10.15: Devotional service. 10.0: ‘ Bits and Pieces,’ by “ Isobel.” 11; Recordings. 12; Lunch music. 1; Weather report for aviators. 1.30: Fiducational session. 2.30: Recordings. 3.30: Sports results, classical music, 4: Weather and frost forecast. • /

4YO (1,140 kc), Dunedin

5: Recordings. _6: Close down. 7: After-dinner music. 8: Italian orchestral programme, featuring, at 8.22, Yehudi Menuhin _ (violin), playing ‘ Concerto No. 1 in D. Major, Op. 6 ’ (Paganini). 9.10: Grand opera. 10: Merry and bright. 10.30: Close down. 4YZ (680 kc), Invercargill. 5 : Light music. 5.30 : Children’s session. , 5.45: Tunes of the day. _ 6: ‘ The Birth of the British Nation.’ 6.15; Reserved. 6.45: ‘ One Good Deed a Day.’ 6.57: Station notices and weather report. 7: News service. 7.20: Three bands. 7.30: ‘Silas Marner.’ 7.42: Moments of mirth. 8; ‘ The Music Goes Round.’ 8.30: ‘His Last Plunge.’ 8.42; Manhattan melodies. 9; Reserved 9.20 : Ivory Keys. 9.30 : Dance music from the Grand Centennial Ball. 10.30: Close down. 3YA (720 kc), Christchurch,

5: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 7 : News service. 7.20: Addington stock market reports. 7.35: Talk by George Bagley: ‘ Understanding Europe: The Baltic and its Peoples 7 (No. 4). 8; Readings by O. L. Simmanee: ‘Pickwick Papers,’ by Charles Dickens. ‘ The Story of My Heart,’ by Richard Jefferies. 8.22: The Philadelphia Orchestra, ‘ Les Preludes ’ (Symphonic Poem, Liszt). 8.38: Theod Scheidl (baritone). 8.48; The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, ‘ La Source,’ Ballet Suite (Delibes). 9: Reserved. 9.20: Weather report and station notices. 9.25: Vladimir Horowitz (pianoforte) and London Sym-

phony Orchestra, ‘ Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 ’ (Rachmaninoff). 10: Music, mirth, and melody. 11: Close of normal programme. During the war, this station will be on the air till midnight. 2YA (570 kc), Wellington.

5: Children’s session. 5.45 : Dinner music. 7: News service. 7.30: Talk by the gardening expert. 8: The 2YA Concert Orchestra, conducted by Leon de Manny. 8.9: ‘ Round the Piano ’: Songs and choruses of the early days, by the Old-time Concert Party. 8.26: The Concert Orchestra. 8.36: Frank Bermingham (baritone). 8.48: The concert orchestra. 9 : Reserved. 9.15 : Weather report and station notices. 9.20; ‘The Radio that Hitler Fears.’ 9.35: ‘ Exploits of the Black Moth: The Misdeeds of Mr Cranlock.’ 10.1: ‘The Moonstone.’ 10.14; Dance music by Manuel Raymond’s Dance Orchestra, relayed from the Centennial Exhibition Cabaret. 11.14: Close of normal programme. During the war, this station will be on the air till midnight. IYA (650 kc), Auckland.

sChildren’s session. 5.45 : Dinner music. 7: News service. 8 : Quintet Instrumental of Paris, ‘ Suite for Flute, Violin, Viola, ’Cello, and Harp ’ (d’lndy). 8.17; Dawn Harding (mezzo-soprano). 8.28; Loner String Quartet, with Olga Loeser-Lebert (piano), ‘ Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 (Dvorak). 9: Reserved. 9.20: Weather report and station notices. 9.25: ‘Those We Love.’ 9.51: The 8.8. C. Theatre Orchestra, with Isobel Bailey

and revue chorus. 10: Music, mirth, and melody. 11: Close of nonnal programme. During the war this station will be on the air till midnight. SHORT WAVE STATIONS Empire Station (19.82 m, 25.5 m, 31.55 m), Daventry. 5.57 p.m.: Announcements. 6; To be announced. 6.15: Full news bulletin. 6.45: Talk, ‘ Background to the News.’ 7: To be announced. 8: News summary. 8.15: To be announced. 9: Full news bulletin. 9,30: To be announced. 10.15: Close down. VLR (31.32 m), Melbourne. 7.30 p.m.: Young people’s session. 8.15: Music. 9: News. . 9.45: Talk. 10: ‘Gentlemen, Be Seated.’ 10.30: Play. 11.10: The Master,singers. 11.30: News. 11.45: Two-piano recital, Frank Hutchens and Lindley Evans. 0.30: Department of Information service. 1: Recordings. 1.50: News and Department of Information service. 2.30; Close down.

VLR3 (25.25 m), Melbourne. To-morrow.—B.3o a.m.; Weather and news, 9.16: ‘ Alarm Clock Hour.’ 9.45: News. 10: ‘ Morning Melodies.’ 11.30: Morning story. 12: Daily devotional service. 12.15: Close down. 2: Broadcast to schools. 2.20: Stock Exchange repoi't, etc.. 2.40; ‘At Home and Abroad,’ “The Watchman.” 2.55: News. 3.35: Musical programme, interspersed with descriptions of the Yarraglen races (news at 6.15). 7.15: Close down.