To-day's Wireless Programme

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 291, 9 December 1936, Page 7

To-day's Wireless Programme

IYA AUCKLAND (650 Kilocycles—46l,3 Metres.)

8 p.m: Chamber music programme. 9.15: Talk, Professor W. A. Sewell, “Recent Developments in the Modern Stage.” 9.30: “St. Patrick's Night” (Paddy O’Brien gives a party). 9.38: Commentary by C. B. Fry on play in the first cricket Test. 9.55: Primo Scala’s Accordion Band. 10.0: Music, mirth, and melody.

2YA WELLINGTON (570 Kilocycles—s 26 Metres.)

7 a.m: Breakfast session. 7.5: Keep fit session. 7.20: Continuation of breakfast session. 9.0: Wellington wool sale. 10.0: Recordings. 10.30: Devotional service. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Classical hour. 3.0: First cricket Test. 3.30: Special weather forecast for farmers. 4.0: Sports results. 4.45: Children’s hour. 5.30: First cricket Test. 6.0: Dinner music. 6.3: (approx.): Talk, “For the Home Gardener.” 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: First cricket Test. 8.0: Light orchestral and ballad programme. Recording: Alfredo Campoli and his Salon Orchestra. 8.8: A ballad recitaby Olive N. Fish (contralto). 8.19: Recordings: Sydney Kyt and his Piccadilly Hotel Band. 8.22: A ballad re cital by Peter Dawson (bass’baritone). 8.34: Ilja Livschakolf Orchestra, 8.40: Talk: Dr. Guy H. Scholefield, “World Affairs.” 9.0: Cricket Test. 9.10: Weather. Station notices. 9.15: Recordings: Arthur Wontuer and Company (sketch). 9.23: Victor Olof Sextet 9.26: Gertrude Lawrence and Dougin.Fairbanks, Jun. 9.34: Serge Krish Instrumental Septet. 938: Comentary by C. B. Fry on play in the first cricket Test. 9.55: North and Company (humorous sketch). 10.1: Dance programme.

SYA CHRISTCHURCH (720 Kilocycles—4ls.4 Metres.)

7.20 p.m: Addington stock market reports. 7.30: Cricket Test. 8.0: Concert in aid of the Health Stamp Campaign by the Christchurch Orpheus Choir, assisted by Robert Allison (baritone), Gordon Anderson (pianist), Nellie Lowe (contralto), Maitland McCutcheon (violinist), Lillian Hanham (soprano), Thelma Rickard (elocutionist), J. L. Tennent (bass), Mrs W. W. Simpson, Thelma Cusack and Nancy Estall (instrumental trio), and Marjorie Nelson and J. H. Cocks (vocal duets). 9.15: Talk, Rev. Lawrence M. Rogers, “Before the First Four Ships.” 10.0: Music, mirth and melody.

4YA DUNEDIN (790 Kilocycles—379.s Metres.)

8 p.m: The New Mayfair Orchestra. 8.10; “Tickling for Pearls,” a further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and his employer. 8.25: “Music Round the Campfire,” featuring “Wait for the Wagon,” “Pretty Pond Lilies.” 8.40: Reserved. 9.0: Cricket Test. 9.15: Compositions by C. Roy Spackman. The Otago Girls’ High School. 9.27: Lloyd Hunter (’cello). 9.38: Survey of the day’s play in the cricket Test. 9.55: Dance music. 2BL SYDNEY (740 Kilocycles—4os Metres.) 10 p.m: The A.B.C. (Sydney) Concert Orchestra, with operatic duets presented by Thea Phillips, soprano., and Lionello Cecil, tenor. . 2FC SYDNEY (610 Kilocycles—492 Metres.) 10 p.m: “Walk Have Ears” (No. 5). Drury Lane.” 10.50: Interlude (r). 11.0: The National Military Band with Lawrence Macauley (basso). GSB DAVENTRY (5908 Kilocycles—3l.ss Metres.) 8 p.m: Big Ben. Oxford v. Cambridge. A running commentary on the interVarsity Rugby Union match. 9.20: Chamber music. The Spencer Dyke string quartet. 8.55: “Imperial Affairs.” A talk, Mr. H. V. Hudson. 9.10: “Empire Magazine,” No. 17. A weekly review of things at Home. 9.40: News. The veteran Turkish marshal Kiazim Pasha, one of the last survivors of the siege of Plevna, where he was taken prisoner by the Russians in 1577, died recently at the ago of 97. Besides military commands tho marshal had been Vali of Skutari-in-Albania (1897-1902) and of the Hojaz (1908-1909.)