RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21297, 26 September 1932, Page 14

RADIO IN THE HOME

> BROADCASTS FROM IYA BOHEMIAN ORCHESTRA RELAY WIDE VARIETY OF TALKS A relay of the Bohemian Orchestra concert on Thursday evening is this week's most interesting broadcast from IYA. Miss Gwladys Edwardes, soprano, and Mr. Vincent' Aspey, violinist, will contribute to Wednesday evening's programme. Items by local artists are also included in Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings' programmes. There is an interesting selection of talks. Details are:— Regular Week-day Sessions.—lo a.m., devotional service; 10.15, recordings; 11, talk to women; noon, lunch music; 2 p.m., recordings; 5, children's session; 6, dinner musio; 7, news; 7.30, talk; 8, varied programme; 9, weather; 10, or 11, closo.

To-day.—-11 a.m., Mis 3W. L. Peat, "Caro of the Feet"; 7.30 p.m., W. Alexander, .Lucerne* ; 8, wrestling Doutn from Town Hall. To-morrow: 11 a.m., health talk; 7.30 p.m., talk on short-wave radio; 8, recordings; 9.3, talk, G-. O'Halloran, 44 Celebrities I Havo Met"; a. 23, recordings; 10, dance music. _ Wednesday; 11 a.m., J. Redfern, "Intorior Decoration"; 7.30 p.m., Owen Jenson, "British Music"; 8, recordings; 8.30, soprano, Gwladys Edwardes; 8.36, violinist. Vincent Aspey; 8.52, recording; 9, Captain R. R. R. Falcon, " North-west Frontier of India"; 9.17, recording; 9.25, Gwladys Edwardes. Thursday: 11 a.m., " Gas-cook-ing"; 12.30 p.m., service from St. Matthow's; 3.15, "Spring Cleaning"; 7.30, Dr. H. Belshaw, " Economio Crisis"; 8, Bohemian Orchestra concert relay. Friday: 11 a.m., "Home Industries"; 7.30 p.m., sports talk; 8, recording; 8.9, Balmoral Male Quartet; B.IG, IYA Orchestra; 8.25, soprano, Winifred Bill; 8.31, recording; 8.37, Orchestra; 8.45, harmonica, S. Harvey; 8.49, recording; 8.52, Quartet; 8.58, recording; 9.3, J. Hogben, "Ancient Crimes"; 9.18, Orchestra; 9.26, "Winifred Hill; 9.32, recording; 9.35, Quartet; 9.44, recording; 9.50, Orchestra. Saturday: 2.45 p.m., Rugby football from Eden Park; 7.30, horticulture talk; 8, recording; 8.11, Kohala Instrumental Quartet; 8.18, recording; 8.21, piano and vocal, Mr. and Mrs. Prentice; 8.27, recording; 8.30, contralto, Aimee Clapham; 8.38, piarioaccordion, C. W. Bruce; 8.44, humour, R. Reeve; 8.50, recording; 8.53, tenor, R. H. Jenkins; 8.57, recording; 9.2, G. A. Thomas, "Cricket"; 9.22, Qunrtet; 9.26, recording; 9.29, Mr. and Mrs. Prentice; 9.34, recording; 9.37, R. Reeve; 9.43, recording; 9.46, C. W. Bruce; 9.53, recording; 10, sports summary; 10.10, danco music. Sunday: 2 p.m., recordings; 6, children's service; 7, srrvire from St. Mary's Cathedral (Canon W. Fancourt); 8.30, concert: IYA Orchestra; tenor, Denis Sheard; soprano, Dori3 Bran3grove; recordings. BIG LICENCE INCREASE New licences for receiving sets taken out. in tho Dominion in August numbered 3552, bringing the total to 79,618. The month's increase is unusually high, being 463 more than the advance in July. Usually there is a progressive falling-off in now licences as tho date when renewals are necessary, April 1, approaches. The increases for the past four months arc:—May, 6983; June, 4199; July, 3089; August, 3552. The grand total, of licences connected with radio in tho Dominion is now 81,656, nearly 7000 more than last year's figure of 74,741. Besides the 79,618 licences for receiving sets, there aro 1190 dealers' licences, 590 for transmitting, six experimental, two special, and 250 free. Tho dealers' licences show an increase of 62 on tho total for July, the Auckland increase of 21 being unusually large. Auckland has by far tho most free licences, the total being 105, nearly double tho nest largest figure, Wellington's 62. Of the 79,618 receivers' licences 22,828 are in the Auckland district, the other totals being:—Wellington, 33,559; Canterbury, 12,963; Otago, 10.268. Up to the end of July the number of radio licences in England had reached 4,800,000, an increase of 30,000 over the previous mouth, and 1,000,000 more than a year before. The New Zealand total at the same dato was 78,006. NOTABLE BROADCASTS

If ever}' week brought such a high standard of radio entertainment as did last week, listeners would be well served indeed. The Dominion-wide broadcast by Don Bradman was particularly noteworthy. Encouraging success attended the broadcast by IYA of tho song of imported Eastern birds from a Remuera aviary. More novel transmissions of this sort—a broadcast from the zoo, for instance—would be welcomed.

The Hungarian violinist, Joseph Szigeti, portion of whose initial concert in Wellington on October 4 is to be broadcast, is the first overseas artist to appear before a microphone in New Zealand. The onehour broadcast, from 9.15 to 10.15 p.m., will also be conducted on relay by IYA and the southern national stations. Tho event will be eagerly awaited. The visit to Auckland early next month of a noted grand opera company presents another admirable opportunity of securing a broadcast of distinction. The company recently appeared before tho microphone with exceptional success in Australia, reception in Auckland being excellent. QUESTIONNAIRE SUCCESS It is an open secret that the broadcasting authorities are more than pleased with the response that was made to the questionnaire, says a Wellington writer. In their moments of wildest optimism they did not expect 40 per cent of listeners to fill in the replies. In fact, arrangements had been based on a possible 30 per cent doing so. Some people have taken exception to tho' nature of the questions asked. But it must bo remembered that all questions havo to bo so worded that they can be dealt with by the statistical machines afterwards. This limits tho questions to a certain extent.

' So useful has been the result to the broadcasting authorities that there is every prospect of listeners being asked to fill in a simple questionnaire every year. Naturally the questions will not bo stereotyped. Every year it is hoped to glean useful statistics on some aspect of broadcasting from the point o/ view of listeners. ON ALL WAVE-LENGTHS It is 10 yoars since the British Broadcasting Company, later to give way to the present corporation, was farmed. This is a true story: Two bright young things were at a recent Auckland Rugby football match at which excitement rose to fever pitch. One of the young ladies said to tho other: " Oh, this is so exciting I wish I were listening to the wireless description." Ono wonders what the same young lady's comment would be at a wrestling match.

Mr. Gordon Hutter. whoso breezy commentary on sports events from IYA is so popular, evidently has a rival. An English journal says:—Nobody wants to silence Mr. Foster Hewitt, of Toronto, said to be the best sports announcer in tho British Empire. He has been before the microphone practically every day sinco 1922.

A bore was boasting of tho number of stations that he could obtain. After he declared that "Cast night I got Sydney easily," his victim replied, "On Sunday I dropped a valve and heard glass-go." George Iv. Arthur, tho English actor, who recently returned to England from Hollywood, says that tho highest earnings in America at the moment are those of the radio stars. For a single hour's work Kreisler is paid about £440 at par. "The. radio," Mr. Arthur says, "is having a marked effect on other public entertainments. When Amos and Andy aro performing the streets in some towns are almost deserted."