RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23053, 2 June 1938, Page 6

RADIO IN THE HOME

PROGRAMME FEATURES CRICKET TEST BROADCASTS NEW INVERCARGILL STATION BY. ALL-WAVE "Tho Amusements of To-day— Physical," upon which Mr. Dennis A. Neal is to speak, is the subject of this evening's "Whirligig of Time," to be presented from IYA at 7.30 o'clock. Tho main features of to-morrow's concert session are a piano recital by Eva Stern and a talk, at 9.5 p.m., by Ethel Wilson, who will speak on lon Idriess, the Australian author and adventurer. The whole of the first portion of Saturday's concert will be provided b.y the Carina Vocal Trio,. Walter Brough, baritone, and the Studio Orchestra under tho conductorship of Harold Baxter. As tho station will relay an address by tho Hon. Adam Hamilton between 8 and 10 p.m. on Monday, the wrestling commentary will be broadcast by IZM. Opening with Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major, Wednesday's chamber music hour will include a recital by Gwenda Weir, soprano, and a recorded version of Handel's Grand Concerto No. 4 in A Minor. Two recitals are featured in this evening's concert session from tho Wellington station. At 9.34 Zillah Castle, violinist, will present a series of folk songs and dances, and at 9.48 Dorothy Hanify will play a number of piano compositions by Debussy. The Christchurch station will broadcast at eight o'clock "The Unguilty," a radio drama by Catherine Brownbill, and a recording, "The Spirit of Easter Island." The Dowager Lady Swathling will give a talk on "Iceland" at 9.5 o'clock. As an alternative to the band programme of 2YA, the Christchurch Liederkranzchcn will provide most of the first half of to-morrow's concert session from 3YA. At intervals from 2 p.m. on Saturday listeners to Wellington will hear commentaries on the display to be given at Rongotai by the New Zealand Air Force. From the studio at 8.45 on Sunday the Schola Cantorem will broadcast a programme of Cathedral music, 3YA offering Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," and 4YA an oratorio recital by Frederick Collier, Australian bass-bari-tone. Arrangements for the rebroadcasting of tho first of the 1938 England-Aus-tralia cricket tests have been made by the National Broadcasting Service. The first broadcast will take place on Friday, June 10, when IYA and the southern stations will provide ball by ball descriptions from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. From 11 p.m. on Friday until 5 a.m. on Saturday 2YA will give tho balance of tho first day's plav. On Saturday morning all main stations will give the results and, at 9.35 a.m., 2YA will relay Oldfield's eye-witness account of the play. All the main stations will broadcast this account at 6.45 p.m. In addition to the customary Sunday morning results, IYA will provide further ball by ball commentaries from 9.30 to 11 p.m. on the! succeeding days of plav, the balance of the commentaries being transmitted from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. over 2YA only. Parts of Otago and Southland have been poorly covered by 4YA, but the situation will shortly be met with tho advent of a new and _ moderatelypowerful regional, which is broadcast under the call sign of 4Y"Z. Tho Australian-built transmitter arrived last month and has been assembled in a concrete building alongside the two 300 ft. radio masts which have been erected on the main road on tho outskirts of Invercargill. In August the studio will be moved to Tay Street, where a building is being remodelled to provide studio and office accommodation. Definite hours have not vet been allotted, but it is expected that the new transmitter, which will come on the air in August, will broadcast on week days from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., with a mid-day session, and on Sundays from 11' a.m. to 1 p.m., and again from 6.30 p.m. to 10 p.m. "Libel," presented by <L M. Clark and players from the studio of IYA last Sunday evening, earned widespread listener-approval and furnished, if there had remained any doubt, completely convincing evidence that 90 minutes is not too long a period for such a presentation. Maybe its success lay largely in the preservation of tho three unities and the absorbing nature of the carefull'* unfolded plot. There can bo no doubt, however, that the producer and players made the most of the excellent script and succeeded without the aid of obtrusive "effects" in conveying the appropriate atmosphere, a rather difficult feat in view of the scene of tho action. Sporting broadcasts are a special feature of this week's programmes from the national stations. Apart from the numerous cricket commentaries, most interest will probably centre in the rebroadcast, at 8.5 this morning,, of Daventry's description of the 155 th Derby. A recorded version will be hoard from 2YA only at 6.50 this evening. Owing to IYA being; scheduled to broadcast the trotting, Saturday's Rugby football commentary will be given by IZM, and this station will broadcast also tho late race results. At 3 p.m. on Monday the Christchurch station will - give a description of tho representative Rugby match Canterbury v. Bay of Plenty. Tho subsidiary Auckland station, IZM, is scheduled to broadcast both tho commentaries on the women's hockey match, England v. Auckland, at 1.45 p.m. on Thursday, and tho Eden Park Rugby match, at, Q >.m. tho same afternoon. FROM IYA To-day: 7.30 p.m., "The Whirligig of Tiaic —Amusements of To-day," speaker, Mr. Dennis A. Nculj 8 p.m.. "Westward Ho I"; B. 15, "Wandering with the West Wind"; 8.45, "The Strange Adventures of Mr. Penny"; 0.5, talk, the Rev, A. M. Richard*, "The Red Man's Revenge—Developments in Modern Mexico"; 0.120. recorded band music; 0.30, "Dad and Dave from Snake Gully"; 10 to 11, dance music. Tomorrowi 8 p.m., recording, Dvorak's S.vm* phonv No. 5 in E Minor, "From the New World"; S.t-', Kva Stern, pianist, "Aufschwung," "Warum," " Trauineswirrcn" (Schumann), Nocturne in K Minor (Chopin), and "Tja Campanella"; 0.5, talk, Ethel Wilson M.A., "lon Idriess—Australian Adventurer and Author"; 9.1-1, recordings, "Dances of tho Polovtsian Maidens"; 10 to it. music and melody. Saturday: 8 p.m.. Studio Orchestra, "Chu Chin Chow" selection; 8.10, Carina' Vocal Trio, "Lullaby" and "June Roses"; B.Hi, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. !• 8.28, Carina Vocal Trio, "Lullaby" (Scott)' and "Trees" (Rasbach); 8,31. the Orchestra, "La Cinqnainlaino" and "April's Message"; 8.30, Walter Brough, baritone, "Tommv Lad,'* "Nirvana" and Massenet's Elegie with 'cello obligato by Laila Remus: 8.51, the orchestra, Amoretten Tanze and "Dance of the Hours"; 0.5, modern dance music; 10, sports summary; 10.10 to 11.30, dance music. Sunday: 11 a.m., relay from Epsom Methodist Church; 3.30 p.m.. Song Cycle, "In a Persian Garden"; 7 p.m., relay from St. Luke's Presbyterian Church; 8.30 Auckland Municipal Band concert with Eric Child, baritone, as vocalist, and with xylophone solos by Rowland Jackson. Monday: 10.15 a.m., commentary on Naval and Military parade at Domain; noon, commentarv on Auckland Racing Club's meeting at El'lerslie; S p.m., address by the Hon. Adam Hamilton; 10 to tl, music and melody. Tuesday: 8 p.m., "Mayfair in the Country"; 8.5, Japanese Houseboy episode; 8.18, Tex Rose and Kialua Boys, "When You Dream about Hawaii," and "The One Rose"; 8.30, Eb and Zeb; 8.30, melody by the Buccaneers of the pirate ship, "Vulture"; 8.512. Tex Rose and tho Kialua Boys, "Moon over Momakoora" and "Aloha Oe"; 0.5, talk, L. K. Munro, "World AlTnirs"; 0.20 to 11. dance music. Wednesday: 8 p.m., Lener String Quartet, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major; 8.3'2, Gwenda Weir, soprano. "My Song Resounds," "Hark I How My Triangle," "Silent Woods," "The Heights of Tatra"; 8.-11, Handel's Grand Concerto No, <1 in A Minor: 0.5, "Coronets of England— Queen Elizabeth"; 9.35 to 10, miscellaneous recordings; 10 to 11, music and melody.