RADIO PROGRAMMES

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 222, 20 August 1931, Page 3

RADIO PROGRAMMES

Radio programmes for to-night are as follow: —

IYA AUCKLAND (343 metres, 875 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.40: Talk, “Dairy Utensils und Sheet Metal Goods.” 8.0: Chimes. Relay from the Auckland Town Hall of the Royal Auckland Choir’s Second Concert, under the conductorship of Dr. VV’. E. Thomas. 10.0: Dance programme. 2YA WELLINGTON (416.7 motrea, -720 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 8.0: Chimes. Orchestra, “Tho Student Prince.” 8.8: Tenor, Mr Frank Skinner, “Serenade”; “Mignon.” 8.14: Quartets, Waiata Quartet, “Marie”; “Fat L’il Feller.” 8.20: “A Strauss Garland.” 8.28: Humour, Mr Lcn . Ashton, “Misery Farm”; “I Think of You Dear, I Think of You.” 8.34: Record. 8.37: Soprano, Miss Lalla Vondersloot, with orchestra, “Dream Tryst”; “Tho Land of the Sky Blue Water.” 8.43: Records. 8.50: Orchestra, “Vox Maris’; “Grasshopper’s Dance.” 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.2: Orchestra, “Russian Reminiscences.” 9.8: Humour, Mr Len Ashton, “It’s Bound to Como in Useful Later On.” 9.12: Contralto, Mrs P. Ramsey, “Hills”; with ’cello obbligato, “Time’s Garden.” 9.18: Orchestra, “The Poet’s Dream”; “Reverie.” 9.26: Tenor, Mr Frank Skinner, “My Dream of Love.” 9.30: Duets, Miss Nora Gray and Miss Mollie Fenton, “Jack and Jill”; “Crying Water.” 9.36: Orchestra, “Spanish Serenade”; “Spinning Song.” 9.44: Trio, Misses Nora Gray, Mollie Fenton and Mrs P. Ramsey, with orchestra, “Bird Songn at Eventide.” Quartet, with orchestra, “Sleep Gentle Lady.” 9.50: Orchestra, “Reconciliation”; Dance Novelties.

3YA CHRISTCHURCH (3,06 metres, 980 kilocycles).—s.o: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.30: Talk, Mr J. M. Barnett (Superintendent of Reserves), “Forestry.” 8.0: Chimes. Specially recorded international programme. 4YA DUNEDIN (463 metres, 650 kilocycles).—Silent.

TOO ROMANTIC. ITALIAN LADY ANNOUNCERS. Because three-fourths of their inward correspondence consists of passionate love letters to women announcers, Italian broadcasting stations contemplate dispensing with these signorinas. There is a feminine announcer in Rome whose beautiful voice is renowned throughout Europe. London listeners who have no knowledge of Italian frequently tune-in for the sheer pleasure of hearing her. Whether she is in danger from the proposed ban has not been specifically stated.