RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21471, 20 April 1933, Page 16

RADIO IN THE HOME

BROADCASTS FROM IYA ANZAC DAY SERVICES RACING AT AVONDALE Special arrangements for A nzac Dav broadcasts liavo been made b.y IYA. Both the service in tlic Town Hall in the morning and the one from the cenotaph in the afternoon will bo relayed. In the evening Eliza Campbell will spealt on "Salonika in Peace and War." Apart from the relays of the Avondalo Jockey Club's races on Saturday and Monday, the remainder of the coming week's programmes comprises mainly studio items. Details are: To-day.—7.3o p.m.. .Kev. W. A. Constable. "Ibsen's Last Period": 8, IYA Orchestra: 8.9, contralto, Cathleen Mulqueen; 8.10. records (violin, tenor) ; 8.22, piano. Erie C. L. Bell; 8.'29, Orchestra: 8.35. records (opera, organ); 8.42, bass-baritone. Arthur Wright: 8.48, record (band); 8.51, Orchestra: 9.'2. Percy Ilamblin. "A Trip to New Zealand From Georgia"; 9.17. record (tenor): 9.20. Orchestra; 9.27, Cathleen Mulqueen; 9.H0. record (humour): 9.3G, Eric C. L. Bell: 9.14, Orchestra; 9.50. Arthur Wright: 9.57. record (band). To-morrow: 7.30 p.m., sports talk; 8, Marelle Sextet; 8.7, records (song, violin): 8.13. Clarion Quartet; 8.20, record (humour); 8.2G, Sextet; 8.33, soprano. Lillian Woods, and Quartet; B.'lo, record (piano); 8.44, MaroUe Trio: Sextet; 8.52, record (orchestra); 9.2, Julius Ho;,'ben. "More Law Curiosities"; 9.20, Quartet: contralto. Beryl Smith; 9.27. Sextet; 9.33. records (humour, band); 9.39. duet. Duncan Black and Lambert Harvey: 9.42. Sextet; 9.45, record (banjo); 9.4.8, Quartet: bass, Duncan Black; 9.55, record (orchestra, Saturday: 11.30 a.m., Avondalo races; 7.30 ]). m., horticulture; 8, IYA Chamber Orchestra; 8.9, baritone, Fred Baker; 8.10, records (piano, sung); 8.22, humour, Alan McElwain; 8.28, Orchestra; 8.35, records (tenor, organ) : 8.41, soprano. Gwladys Edv/ardea: 8.48, record (accordeon) : 8.51, noveltv. Bert Watson; 8.57, Orchestra; Stroller. "Ships and Cargoes": 9.20. record (band); 9.23, Fred Baker; 9.30, record (Hawaiian); 9.33, Alan McElwain: 9.39, Gwladys Edwardes; 9.53. Bert Watson: 9.5 G. record (band); 10, sports resume: 10.10 till 11.10. dance music. Sunday: 2, records; 6. children'n song service: 7, service from Baptist Tabernacle (Kev. C. N. Lack, assist-ant-director. China Inland Mission); 8.30. Municipal Band relay. Monday: 11.30 a.m.. Avondalo races: 1.50 p.m., educational session: 7.30. W. Alexander, "Winter Feeding": 8, IYA Chamber Orchestra; 8.9. New Zealand Four; tenor, James Simpson; B.IG, record (impersonator); 8.'22. Orchestra; 8.27, records (soprano, cornet): 8.33, Four; duet, James Simpson and Albert Gibbons Taylor: 8.40. record (humour): 8.4G, Orchestra: 8.54. record (humour, band); 9.2. reserved; 9.17. record (soprano): 9.20, Orchestra; 9.28. records (song, organ); 9.34, Four; baritone, Eric Mannall; 9.41. records (accordeon and violin, song); 9.47, Orchestra; 9.50, records (humour, bands). Tuesday; 11 a.m., Anzac Day service at Town Hall (Archbishop Averill); 3 p.m., Cenotaph service; 7.30, book review: 8, records; 9.2. Eliza Campbell. "Salonika in Peace and War": 9.23 till 10. records. Wednesday; 7.30 p.m., W. H. Wright, "Sculpture"; 8. records; 8.30. mezzo-soprano, Berta Carr; 8.35, Tecora (variety): 8.43, pianos, Appeggio Duo: 8.49, records (tenor, band): 9.2, S. D. Potter. "Birds and Animals"; 9.20. Berta Carr; 9.2G, Appeggio Duo: 9.30 till 11. dance music. Thursday: 7.30 p.m., R. A. Mason and N. M. Richmond. "Greek Liberty ; 8 record (orchestra); 8.9, Auckland Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen 8 Choir; 8.18, record (piano, song); 8.24. violin, Vincent Aspey: 8.35. _ records (soprano, accordeons); 8.44, choir; 8.52, record (orchestra); 9.2, Jfimes A\ ylie. riot Understood": 9.20. record (orchestra): 9.28. choir; 9.32. records (orchestra, tenor): 9.38. Vincent Aspey: 9.50. choir; 9,5G, record (orchestra).

WOULD-BE ANNOUNCERS The New Zealand radio authorities state that applications for the position of announcer are so numerous there would bo more than enough obtainable to keep most of Europe in announcers from Now Zealand sources alone. All i told there is a waiting list of 400, and a similar number for various technical positions. An announcer must have a wide knowledge, so as to be able to deal with the news and reports that arrive in skeleton form. He must lia-vo. presence of mind to deal with difficult situations, such as vocalists who are lost when they are due to appear. Probably the most important requirement m an announcer, apart from a good radio voice, is an intimate knowledge ot sport in all its phases. SETS OF THE FUTURE Remarkable developments have taken place in the wireless industry recently. There is ovej*y likelihood that within another year or two there will bo a\ ailable a homo entertainment machine combining the popular radio-gramo-phone, a new television receiver, capable of bringing in a scene as well as • sound, and a home cinematographfour machines in one. An English authority says:—-"The future radio receiver will bring into the home every kind of interest. There is no reason why television should not develop into an apparatus able to bring tho cinema into the drawing room. Add to this the possible progress in home cinemas and the certain developments of tho radio-gramophone, and you have an instrument that offers every known form of screen and musical entertainment." _ 8.8.C. WEED-OUT *

The British Broadcasting Corporation has decided on a drastic weedingoiit of the great number of artists who arc, or have been, in their employ. The demand for engagements and the public demand for good entertainment have both increased to such an extent, it is stated, that the time lias come to select only the best, from the broadcasting point of view, and to discourage fresh applications. "In the early days," an official of the 8.8.C. said, "wo were usually ready to welcome fresh talent. But tlio numbers of aspiring artists increased tremendously, and an audition with the 8.8.C. was looked upon as tho lirst step on the road to fame. We now have something like 'JfIOO artists on our list, and many of them must bo informed that their services will no longer be required. Even the best performers can hope to be engaged only at infrequent intervals, and we can consider only those tresh applications that are very strongly recommended I com reliable sources." SOUND AND RADIO WAVES A curious fact connected with wireless is that persons hundreds, and even thousands, of mile distant from the scene of a broadcast often hear it before persons actually present at the scene. Kor instance, when Auckland listeners hear tho tolling of Big Hen on the short-wave wireless from Kngland, they hear it before a person standing at the foot of the clock tower. This extraordinary fact is duo to the ama/.ing speed at which wireless waves travel—lß6,ooo miles a second —compared with sound waves, which travel only about 1100 ft. a second. When Big Ben strikes tho hour and the sound is broadcast from a microphone situated in the belfry, it is heard by listeners in New Zealand 1 only a fraction of a second later. But the person standing at tho foot of the clock tower does not hear the sound of tho bell till about a-quarter of a second has passed (250, the height of Big Ben in feet, divided by 1100). A similar sort of thing occurs when a concert is being broadcast. A person anywhere in New Zealand listening to a concert broadcast from a hall in Dunedin, hears it before a person seated halfway down the hall.