RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23059, 9 June 1938, Page 6

RADIO IN THE HOME

PROGRAMME FEATURES

CRICKET TEST BROADCASTS LISTENING BAROMETERS BY ALL-WAVE An unusual array of flesh and blood talent will appear at the microphone of IYA on Saturday evening, the artists including Marjorie Somervell, soprano, Ina Bosworth, violinist, Keith Prescott, baritone, and the Studio Orchestra, qnd a special feature, described as a "cheerful interlude by lladio Boys of H.M.S. Achilles," as an added number. On Sunday the station will broadcast a complete recording of the Gilbert and Sullivan "Princess Ida," and on, Monday at S p.m. a recital by Arnio Hartman, American pianoaccordion player. Wednesday's chamber music session will open with a recorded rendition of Haydn's Quartet in C Major, Opus 5-i, and will include recitals by Colin Horsl'ey, pianist, and the Munro Instrumental Trio.

Two well-known overseas vaudeville artists, Anne Luciano, soprano, and Arnie Hartman, American pianoaccordion player, are featured in the first half of this evening's concert session from 2YA. As an alternative, the Christchurch station offers a studio presentation by the Civic Players of Edmund Barclay's "The Bight to Die," the play commencing at eight o'clock. Danny Malone, Irish tenor, will give a recital on Sunday from 2YA, which will thereafter broadcast Verdi's "11 Travatore." During the same period the Christchurch station will give recitals by Harold Prescott, tenor, Frederick (Jollier, Australian bass-baritone, and Jean Scott, soprano. At 8.40 p.m. on Monday from Wellington listeners may hear a recorded talk by Dr. Gerda Eichbaum, "In Italy During the Abyssinian War." On each day of play in the first cricket test this station will provide ball-by-ball commentaries from 10 or 11 p.m. until 5 a.m.

At the Wellington station on August 9 Madame Margherita Zelanda, New Zealand-born coloratura soprano, will commence a six weeks' tour of the YA stations in terms of a contract made with the National Broadcasting Service. Madame Zelanda received her earliest training at Dunedin and after attending the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music was for some years in Italy as a pupil of several maestros. She possesses a sweet, clear and strong voice, which Italian professors have acclaimed as tho finest English voice heard in that country. The rare honour of being broadcast simultaneously over two stations in the one town will fall to the lot of Arnie Hartman, who may be heard over both 2YA and 2YD on June 8, 9 and 11. Mr. Hartman, who, has complete mastery of the piano-" accordion, is under contract to tour the National Broadcasting Service stations, being scheduled for IYA at 8 I p.m. on Monday.

The British Broadcasting Corporation gauges listener-reaction by what, it terms "listening-barometers." The Post Office issues invitations to, perhaps, 50,000 licence holders to take notes over a period of some months on one special phase of the broadcast programmes and, at the close of the period, questionnaires are forwarded to about 5 per cent of the panel. The answers received are carefully analysed and the summarised results given effect in future programmes. From the results of the "Variety Listening Barometer," tabulated at the beginning of the year, it appears that the most successful programme was the Royal Command performance, which was enjoyed by an average listening audience of 94 per cent, whereas the average in the case of the usual variety shows was 83 per cent. "Monday at Seven," which is occasionally broadcast over Daventry, commanded the highest average audience of the six weekly variety features.

Using the mobile unit, the Alexandra Palace television transmitter of the British Broadcasting Corporation was able to bring to users of "viewers" & complete picture of the McAvoy-Harvey boxing championship. This was the first occasion on which such an event had been televised. Similar success crowned the television transmission of the Eng land v. Scotland Soccer match, and a reconstruction, using models on the foreshore of Alexandra Lake, of the naval attack on Zeebrugge. For this latter feature Vice-Admiral A. F. B Carpenter, who commanded the Vindictive in the action at Zeebrugge, was commentator. Incidentally, the British Broadcasting Corporation has found that with television the accompanying commentary must be quite different from that employed in ordinary broadcasting. As viewers can, of course, see almost as much of the action as the commentator, his remarks need to be explanatory rather than descriptive.

What with early morning results, early- evening commentaries by W. A. Oldfield, ball-by-ball descriptions from the YA stations, and all-night broadcasts from 2YA, cricket is figuring prominently in the programmes of the National Broadcasting, Service stations. The same sport is being specially featured over 2YD on June 16, when "Talking of Cricket," a recorded sports programme, is to have its premiere prior to making the rounds of the YA stations. This recording is a good typical broadcast presented in the form of a discussion between a number of men on the question of the greatest batsman of all time, and is said to throw much new light on this most argued point.

FROM IYA To-dp.yi 7.30 p.m., "The Whirligig of Time —Education in the Ancient World"; 8 p.m., "Westward Hoi"; 8.15, "Wandering with the Wsst Wind": 8.45, "The Strange Adventures of Mr. Penny"; 8.5, reserved period; 9.20, recorded band music; 0.30, "Dad and Dave from Snake Gully"; 9.43 to 10, recordings; 10 to 11, dance music, with vocal interludes. To-morrow: 8 p.m., Schnbert'i Symphony No. 6 in B Flat; 8.84, Bruch's Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, for Violin and Orchestra; 0.5, reserved period; 9.32, James Leighton, baritone, "Silver," "Summer Schemes" and "Fear No More thd Heat of the Sun"; 9.42, Walton's "Facade" Suite; 10 to 11, lebroadcast of first cricket test. Saturday: 7 a.m., test cricket results; 8 p.m., studio orchestra, "Springtime" Suito; 8.10, Marjorie Somervell, soprano, "Love's Own Kiss," "One Kiss," "Indian Love Call" and "My Hero"; 822, the orchestra, "A Temps Fassc"; 8.26, Ina Bosworth, violinist, "Gigue," "Bird as Prophet" and "Variations": 8.37, Ivcith Priscott, baritone, "Charming Chloe," "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer Dayf" "Primrosy Gown" and "King of the Road"; 8.49, Strings of the Studio Orchestra, Bantock's "Scenes from the Scottish Highlands"; 9.5, "Cheerful Interlude by Radio Boys of H.M.S. Achilles"; 10 to 11, rebroadcast of test cricket. Sunday: }> a.m., crickot results; 11 a.m., relay from Mount F.den Baptist Church; 7 p.m.. relay from St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral; 8,30 to 10. recorded presentation of "Princess Ida." Monday: 8 p.m., Arnie Hartman, piano-accordion; 8.10, "Victoriana No. 3 The Hungry Forties"; 9.5, wrestling commentary; 10 to 11, music and melody. Tuesday: 7 a.m., cricket results; 0.45 p.m., commentary on cricket by W. A. Oldfield; 8 p.m., "Down Pall Mall" March; 8.5, Japanese ITouseboy; 8.30, Eb and Zeb; 8.39, Melody by Buccaneers of the Pirate Ship Vultur«; 9.5, reserved period; 9.30 to 11. ball-by-ball description of the cricket test. Wednesday: 7 a.m., cricket results; 0.45 p.m., W. A. Oldfield's account of the play in cricket test; 8 p.m., Haydn's Quartet in C Major, Opus ■•>4; 8.20, .Robert Simmers, baritone, "The First Primrose," "The Swan,","Nay Tgo," "My Heart Should Break" and "Ichabod"; 8.32, Colin Horslcy, pianist, Chopin's Etudes, Opus 10 No. I in F Major, and No. 2 in C Major, Romance in D Minor (Sibelius), and "La Campanella"; 8.45, '£lie Munro Trio, Pauline Munro, violinist, Betty Fenton, 'cellist, and Sybil) Stokes, pianist, present Hayn's Trio in D Minor No. 6; 9.5, "Coronets of England—Queen Elizabeth"; 9.35, Oscar Batske, bass, "Pilgrim's Song" and "L'Ebreo"; 9.42 to 10, reconjinjes; 10 to 11. music and melody.