Radio

Northern Advocate, 25 May 1939, Page 3

Radio

Thursday, May 25

CONCERT BY RICHARD CROOKS This evening, from approximately 9.10 o’clock, the four YA Stations will broadcast the final concert of Richard Crooks’s season, from the Wellington Town Hall. Therefore the programmes scheduled below, from 9.10, will bo heard from the respective auxiliary stations—lYX, BSokc; 2YC, 840 kc; 3YL, 12C0kc; and 4YO, 1140 kc.

IYA AUCKLAND (Gsokc.). 4.30 p.m: Special Empire programme—See 2YA. 5.45: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. G. 45: Commentary on running of the English Derby. 7.0: Official news. 7.10: News and reports. 7.30: Winter course talk, “Some Significant Trends in the World Today—-5, “Mental Settings of the Age,” Professor Julius Stone. 8.0: “Westward Ho,” serial. 8.15: “Wandering with the West Wind.” 8,45: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 9.0: Weather and station notices. 9.5: Reserved. 9.20; . Recorded brass band music. At 9.31: “Dad and Dave from Snake Gully.” 10.0: An hour of modern dance music by the bands of Bob Crosby, Tommy Dorsey and Music in the Morgan Manner, with interludes by Bing Crosby and Vera Lynn.

TOMORROW. —7 to 9 a.m: Breakfast session. 10.0: Devotional service. 11.0: Talk to women. 1.0 p.m: Weather report. 2.30: Classical music. 3.15 and 4.30: Sports results. 4.0: Weather report for farmers. 5.40: “David and Dawn in Fairyland—The City of Cats,” episode 5. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Sports talk. 8.0: Readings from the works of Oliver Goldsmith. 8.30: London Symphony Orchestra; 8.50: Robert Simmers (baritone). 9.0; Weather and station notices. 9.5: Beatrice Harrison ,cello; Nancy Evans, contralto. 9.16; “A London Symphony” (Vaughan Williams). 10.0 to 11.0: Music, mirth and melody.

2YA WELLINGTON. (570 kc.). 4.30 p.m: Special Empire programme, arranged by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to commemorate the visit of Their Majesties the King and Queen to Canada and the U.S.A., including - speech by the King. Broadcasting organisations throughout the Empire will contribute items to the programme. (Rebroadcast from the Empire station.) 5.45: Recordings. 6.0: Dinner music. 6.45: Commentary on running of the English Derby. (Rebroadcast from the Empire Station.) 7.0: Official news. 7.10: News and reports. 7.30: A ramble in the news by “Coranto.” 7.40: Talk, Mr E. Philpot Crowther, “Stamps of Western Australia.” 8.0: New Mayfair Orchestra, “Balalaika” selection. 8.10: “The Rich Uncle From Fiji,” episodes 47 and 48. 8.22; Dudley Beaven (organ). 8.28 Vicki Miller and Bill Rowbotham (vocal duet), accompanied by Berkeley Fase and Tom Shannon on two pianos, and the Unity Theatre Chorus, “Affiliate With Me.” 8.31: Lani Mclntire and his Hawaiians. 8.34: Brian Lawrence (light vocal). 8.37: Joe Green (xylophone) and Milt Herth (organ). 8.40: “Just a Job of Work,” a talk by a wireless operator at sea. 9.0: Weather and station notices. 9.5: A programme by the Tudor Singers; conductor, H. Temple White. Interludes—Bronislaw Huberman (violin), La Caprioieuse (Elgar); Waltz in C Sharp Minor (Chopin). At 9.35: Edward Kilenyl (piano), “The Mare and the Foal” (Liszt). 9.51: Eugene Ormandy and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, ‘ ‘Scherzo Apriccioso” (Dvorak). 10.0 to 11.0 :Music,

mirth and melody. TOMORROW—6:SO am: Weather report. 7.0 to 9.0: Breakfast session. 10.0: We'ather report. 10.10: Devotional services. 10.45: Talk to women. 1.0 p.m; Weather report, 2.0: Classical music. 0.0; A.C.E. talk, Lunches in a School Bag.” 5.40: “Cor'al Cave” —episode 20, “Ledoight Turns Up.” 7.0: News and reports.

7.30; Talk, “The Wellington ImterHouse Football Association.” 8.0: A BBC recorded programme, “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse,” music and words by Henry Reed. 8.31: Donald Novis (tenor); 8.37: Billy Cotton and his Band. 8145: Recorded talk Boroness Irene von Oertzen, “Indian Scene” —2, “At a Buddhist 'Monastery.” 9.0; Weather and station notices. 9.5: Eb and Zeb, the country storekeepers. 9.15; Recorded brass bands. Vocalist, Roy Hill (tenor). 10.0: A programme of new dance recordings.

3YA CHRISTCHURCH (720 kc.). 7.35 p.m; Dialogue, under' the auspices of Canterbury Agricultural College—Messrs M. C. Franklin and H. E. G'arrett, “Winter Feeding of Pigs.” 7.50: Sheep survey. 8.0: “The Woman in White,” a dramatisation of Wilkie Collins’s thriller. 8.14: Major Bowes’s Capitol Theatre Trio, “Valse Bleue” (Margis). 8.17: “Night Nurse,” drama

in a great hospital. 8.30: Major Bowes’s Capitol Theatre Trio, “By the Waters of Minnetonka” (Lieurance). 8.33; Dramatic feature, “Thrills.” 8.45; Major Bowes’s Capitol Theatre Trio, “To a Wild Rose” (M'acdowell). 8.48: “Personal Columa,” a drama from the “agony” column of a newspaper. 9.0: Weather and station notices. 9.5: Talk, Mr Leicester Webb, “World Affairs.” 9.20 to 11.0: Dance music.

TOMORROW—7.3S p.m: Talk, “Weeds on the Farm.” 8.0; Demonstration concert by prize-winners at the Christchurch Competitions Society's 1939 Festival. 9.0: Weather 'and station notices. 9.5: Reserved. 9.20: Light orchestral and ballad concert by 3YA Orchestra, Nelli Lowe (contralto), Reginald Whitehead (bass). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 4YA DUNEDIN (790 kc.). 7.25 p.m: Talk by Mr C. W. "Postgate, “Health and Strength.” 7.35: Gardening talk. 8.0: A recorded concert by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. “Overture to a Picaresque Comedy” (Arnold Bax). 8.10: Herbert Janssen (baritone), “All Souls Day” and “The Night.” 8.19: The Orchestra, “Eventyr” (“Once Upon a Time” (Delius). 8.35: “Man Through the Ages—The Mongol Horde,” an historical panoramic serial written by James J. Donnelly and produced by the NBS. 9.0: We'ather and station notices. 9.5: The Orchestra, “The Tempest” incidental music (Sibelius). 9.17: Rauta Waara (soprano), “The First Kiss,” “The Maiden Coming From the Rendezvous.” 9.23: The Orchestra, “Coronation March” (Elgar). 9.31: Music from the theatre —“Memories of the Ballet,” No. 1. “The Blue Danube.” To the music of Johann Strauss. The first of a series of imaginary broadcasts, recreating the atmosphere of the theatre during the season of the ballet. 10.0 to 11.0: Music, mirth and melody.

TOMORROW—B p.m: Concert Programme.—“Bad and Dave From Snake Gully.” 8.15: “Pinto Pete in Arizona.” 8.30: “The Rich Uncle from Fiji, episode 27 and 28. 8.42: Reserved. 9.0: Weather and station notices. 9.5: Recordings. 9.20: Reading from the poems of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; with musical interludes. 10.0: Dance music by the Savy Dance Band,