Today's Radio Programmes

Northern Advocate, 26 December 1940, Page 7

Today's Radio Programmes

IYA AUCKLAND (650 kc.)

5.0 p.m: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.15: News from London, followed by topical talk. 7.0: Local news service. 7.30: Evening Programme. —London Palladium Orchestra, “The Rose” selection of Eng. lish melodies. 7.40: An English Christmas. 7.48: Deanna Durbin (soprano), “Alleluia,” “Love Is All.” 7 54: Hastings Municipal Orchestra, Welsh Rhapsody (German). 8.6: “Hard Cash.” 8.18: “Wandering With the West Wind.” 8.45: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 9.0: Newsreel. 9.15: BBC news commentary. 9.25: Music by British bands. At 9.31: “Dad and Dave.” 10.0: Old-time dance programme. 11.0: News from London, followed by meditation music.

2YA WELLINGTON (570 kc.). 6.45 p.m: Summary of the day’s play in the cricket match, Wellington v. Auckland. 7.0: Local news service. 7.15: Britain Speaks. 7.30. Reserved. 7.45: The Four Kings of Rhythm. (A studio .presentation.) 8.1: “A Marriage Has Been Disarranged. A comedy presented by the NBS. 8.31: Rainbow . Melody, with the Swingtime Harmonists and Noel Habgood (saxophone). A studio presentation. 8.57: Station notices. 9.0: NBS newsreel. 9.15: BBC news commentary. 9.25: Special radio presentation of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera “The Yeomen of the Guard.” 11.0: News from London, followed by meditation music.

3YA CHRISTCHURCH (720 kc.)

7.30 p.m: Evening Programme.— Barnabas von Geczy and his orchestra. 7.33: “The Adventures of Marco Polo.” 7.46: Debroy Somers Band with male quartet. 7.54: “The Mystery of Darrington Hall.” 8.7: Irene Macdonald (contralto) from the studio. 8.20: Louis Levy and his orchestra. 8.27: “Those We Love.” A story of people like us, the Marshalls. 8.54: Barnabas von Geczy and his orchestra. 9.0: NBS newsreel. 9.15: BBC news commentary. 9.25: Dance music. 11.0: News from London, followed by meditation music.

4YA DUNEDIN (790 kc.).

7.30 p.m: Evening Programme.— Dame Ethel Smythe and the British Symphony Orchestra, “The Wreckers” overture (Smythe). 7.40: Thomas L. Thomas (baritone). 7.46: Walter Gieseking (piano). 7.54: Eugene Goossens and the London Symphony Orchestra. 8.0: “Good-bye, Mr Chips.” A radio adaptation of the novel by James Hilton. (Adapted and produced by the NBS.) 9.0: NBS newsreel. , 9.15: BBC news commentary. 9.25: Antal Dorati and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. 9.41: Dora Labette (soprano).9.4B: Yelli d’Aranyi (violin). 9.54: Selmar Meyrowitz and the Paris Symphony Orchesti'a. 10.0: Variety, introducing “Forty Minutes of Musical Comedy in Song and Story.” 11.0: News from London, followed by meditation music.