TO-NIGHT’S RADIO

Evening Star, Issue 23564, 1 May 1940, Page 1

TO-NIGHT’S RADIO

During the war all main stations will remain on the air until midnight, normal programmes ceasing at 11 p.m. Daventry news will be broadcast at 6, 7, and 9.15 a.m., and at noon, 5.45, 9, and 11 p.m. 4YA (790 kc), Dunedin. 4.30: Lighb musical programme. 5: Children's session. 5.45: Dinner music. 7: News service. 7.30: Talk by (he motor expert. 8: 'The Bold, Bad Buccaneers.' 8.15: ' Ravonshoe.' 8.28: 'Aloha Land.' 8.42: 'The Fourth Form at St. Percy's.' 8.54: Charlie Kunz (piano), 'Charlie Kunz Piano Medley.' 9.20: Weather report and station notices. 9.25: The Theatre Box, ' Shanghai Li! '. and ' Noel Coward Goes Into Lodgings.' 9.38: ' Khyber and Beyond: Twilight' 10.4: Jan Savitt and his Tophatters. with vocal interludes by the Merry Macs. 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: Dovotional service'. 10.50: ' Bits and Pieces/ by " Isobel." 11: Recordings. 12: Lunch music. 1: Weather report for aviators 1.30: Educational 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: Aflerdinner music. 8: Programme of orchestral works, featuring at 8.29 Fritz Kreisler (violin) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing ' Concerto in D Major, Op. 77' (Brahms). 9: Highlights from 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 tlis British Nation: Allielstan.’ 6.15: Daventry news. 6.45; ‘Eh and Zcb.’ 7: .Rebroadcast of official nows. 7.10: Afterdinner music (7.30, station announcements). 8: Gardening talk. 8.15; ‘ The Masked Masqueradei's.’ 8.45: Studio recital by R. H. Anderson (tenor). 9: Daventry nows. 9.30; Swing session, compered by Frank Beadle. 10: Close down. 3YA {72okc), Christchurch. 5; Children’s session. 5.45; Dinner music. 7: News session. 7.20: Addington stock market reports. 7.35: Winter course talk, introducing ‘ The Microphone Roundtable —Europe Overflows: Into the Americas.’ 8: Readings by O. L. Simmance, ‘ The Invisible Companion,’ by J. Jefferson Farjoon. 8.22: Andre D’Arkor (tenor). 8.27: 3YA Orchestra; conductor, Will Hutchens, Mus.Bac. 8.39: Germaine Martinelli. 8.48: 3YA Orchestra. 9.20; Weather report and station notices. 9.25; -Artur Schnabel (pianoforte) and the Loudon Philharmonic Orchestra, ‘Concerto No. 2 in B I'lat Major, Op. 19’ (Beethoven). 10: Music, mirth, and melody. 2YA (570 kc), Wellington. 5: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 7: News service. 8: Celebrity Concert, under tho auspices of the National Patriotic Fund Board, featuring Heddle Nash (tenor), Isobel Baillie (soprano), Gladys Ripley (contralto), Oscar Natzke (bass), and tho Centennial Festival Symphony Orchestra, under the conductorship of Andersen Tyrer, relayed from the Wellington Town Hall. (The first hour of this concert will be taken by 2YA, and the second hour will bo broadcast through 2YC). 9.20; Weather report and station notices. 9.25; ‘Exploits of tho Black 'Moth.’ 9.51: ‘The Moonstone.’ 10.4: Dance music by Manuel Raymond’s Dance Orchestra (relayed from tho Exhibition Cabaret),

IYA (650 kc), Auckland. 5: Children's session. 5.45: Dinner music. 7: News service. 8: Budapest String Quartet, 'Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3' (Beethoven). 8.26: Elena Gerhardt (mezzosoprano). 8.35; Nancy Reed (piano), from the studio, ' Waldstein ' . Sonata (Beethoven). 9.20: Weather report and station notices. 9.25: ' Those Wo Love.' 9.50: The Mastersingers Vocal Ensemble. 10: Music, mirth, and melodj-. SHORT WAVE STATIONS Empire Station (19.82 m, 25.5 m, 31.55 m), Daventry. This station is on the air between 5.27 and 9.45 p.m. for New Zealand listeners. VLR (31.32 m), Melbourne. 7 p.m.: Young people's session. 7.45: Dinner music. 8.30: News. 9.15: Talk. 9.30: 'As You Like It.* 10: Play. 11: News. 11.15: Recorded music. 11.30: Classical programme. Midnight: Department of information service. 0.30: Jitti Davidson's Dance Band. 1.20: Late news. 1.30: Department of Information service. 2: Close down VLR3 (25.25 m), Melbourne. To-morrow.—B a.m.: Weather and news. 8.45: 'Morning Music' 9.15: News. 9.30: Morning Melodies.' 11: Story. 11.30: Devotional service. 11.45: Close down. 1.30: Broadcast to schools. 1.55: Stock Exchange report, etc. 2.10: 'At Home and Abroad,' " Tho Watchman."- 2.25: News. 3.5: Musical programme, interspersed with descriptions of tho Warrnambool races (news at 5.45). 6:45: Close down. 2R03 (31.15 m), 2R06 (19.16 m), Rome. 5.30 p.m.: Musical programme. 6.5: News summary in English. 6.20: Musical programme. 6.30: News summary in. Italian. 5.45: Close down.