RADIO PROGRAMMES

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1940, Page 3

RADIO PROGRAMMES

IYA AUCKLAND, 650 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 6.45: Dayentry news, followed by dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: Official news service. 7.30: Winter Course talk: “Science for Everyman”; (2) “Everyman Meets a Chemist.” 8.0: Auckland Centennial Music Festival. Auckland Symphony Orchestra. Soloists: Gladys Ripley (contralto), Oscar Natzke (bass). The programme features “Symphony No. 5 in C Cinor” (Beethoven), Serenade, “A Little Night Music” (Mozart). 10.15: Billy Cotton and his Band, with instrumental interludes by Paul Whiteman’s Bouncing Brass. 11.0: Daventry news. (During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight). 2YA WELLINGTON, 570 k.c.

5.0: Children’s session, conducted by Uncle Peter. 5.45: Daventry news, followed by dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: Official news service. 7.28 to 7.30: Time signals. Topical war talk from the BBC. 7.45: Talk by the Book Reviewer: “Books Grave and Gay.” 8.0: New Mayfair Orchestra. 8.10: Light Opera Company. 8.18: Arthur Young and 1 Harry Jacobson (duet on two pianos). 8-24: Alfred Piccaver (tenor). 8.30: Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Orchestra. 8.38: Bebe Daniels (light vocal). 8.44: Lani Mclntire and his Hawaiians (instrumental). 8.50: Al and Bob Harvey (vocal duet). 8.53: Primo Scala’s Accordion Band. 9.0: Daventry news. 9.10: Weather reports and station notices. 9.15: Concert by the Apollo Singers. Soloists: Myra Sewyer (soprano), Marie Vandewart (’cellist). 10.0: Music, mirth, and' melody. 11.0: Daventry news. (During the war, the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight). 3YA CHRISTCHURCH, 720 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Daventry news, followed by dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7-0: Official ne ( ws service. 7.35: Talk under the auspices of Canterbury Agricultural College, by R. A. Calder and H. E. Garrett: “Improvement in Forage Crops.” 8.0: “The Adventures of Marco Polo.” 8.15: “The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.” 8.29: “Coronets of England”: The Life of Henry VIII. 9.0: Daventry news. 9-10: Reports and station notices. 9.15: Dance music. 9.40: Talk by A. L. Leghorn: “Modern Ballroom Datacing.” 10:0: Studio dance programme by Noel Habgood’s Dance Orchestra. 11.0: Daventry news. (During the war, the station ' will remain on the air until 12 midI night). 4YA. DUNEDIN, .790 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Daven-

try news, followed by dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: Official news service. 7.30: Gardening talk. 8.0: An Orchestral Concert, featuring the works of Edward Grieg. Symphony Orchestra. 8.10: Kirsten Flagstad' (soprano), in songs by Grieg. 8.19: The London Symphony Orchestra. 8.35: Emil Telmanyi (violin). 8.43: The Royal Opera Orchestra. 9.0: Daventry news. 9.10: Weather reports aund station notices. 9.15: The following programme will be cancelled. should a wrestling contest be broadcast. The Columbia Symphony Orchestra. 9.19: Heinrich Rehkemper (baritone). 9.25: Ignaz Friedman and Orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Daventry news. (During the war, the station will remain on the air until'l2 midnight). 3ZR GREYMOUTH, 940 k.c.

5.0: Children’s session: “David and Dawn.” 5.30: Dancing rhythm. 5.45: Daventry news. 6.5: You Can’t Blame Us. 6.50: Addington Stock Market report. 6.57: Weather report and station notices. 7-0: News. 7.20: Barnabas von Geczy and his orchestra. 7.43: Ern Pettiffer (clarinet). 7.46: “The Buccaneers.” 8.0: Chamber music: The Reginald Paul Quartet. “Piano Quartet” (Walton). 8.33: “Lorna Doone.” 8.57: Jack Simpson (xylophone). 9-0: Daventry news. 9.10: Let’s all join in the chorus, with Tommy fiandley and his pals. 9.27: Do you remember these? (past hit tunes). 10.0: Close down.

“I want to get a good novel to read on the train —something pathetic,” said a woman to a book salesman. “Let me see. How would ‘The Last Days of Pompeii’ do?” asked the sales-, man. “Pompeii? I never heard of him. What did he die of?” “I’m not quite sure, ma’am,” replied the salesman, “some kind of eruption, I’ve heard.” The would-be resident was interrogating the local estate agent. “I believe,” she said, “that you have very little rain here;” “Rain?” echoed the agent. ‘Madam, we have ducks here that haven’t yet learned 1 to swim.” 1