WIRELESS BROADCASTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22743, 2 December 1935, Page 2

WIRELESS BROADCASTING

TO-DAY’S PROGRAMMES. 4YA, Dunedin. session. 0 : Close down. _lO : Recordings. 10.15: Devotional service. 10.30 : Recordings. 12 noon : Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Recordings. 3.30 : Frost forecast for farmers. Sports results. Classical music. 4.30: Light musical programme. 4.45 : Sports results. 5 : Children’s hour (“Richard the Lionheart” at 5.45). 6: Dinner music. 7 : News and reports. 7.30 ; Official opening of the new 4YA transmitter. Speeches by the Hon. the Postmaster-general and the chairman of the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, Mr H. D. Vickery. 8 : Chimes. Overture by the String Octet (conductor, Mr James Dixon). 8.8 : Three numbers by the Returned Soldiers’ Choir (conductor, Mr John T. Leech). 8.16 : Xylophone solo, with octet accompaniment. 8.19 : Baritone. Mr Wilson Ewart. 8.25 : Returned Soldiers’ Choir. 8.33 : Contralto, Miss Dorothy Clark. 8.40: Talk, Mr J. T. Paul, “The Influence of Radio Broadcasting.” 9 ; Weather report and station notices. 9.5 : Suite for ’cello and sonata for violin and piano by the SpivakovskyKurtz Trio. 9.35 : Contralto, Miss Dorothy Clark. 9.42 : Baritone, Mr Wilson Ewart. 9.48 ; A 8.8. C. recorded programme, “Scrapbook for 1914.” This makes no pretence to be a history hook. It is just a medley of memories, some of which will amuse, some will surprise, and some will be found strangely moving. 10.50 : Dance music. 11.30 : Close down.

3YA, Christchurch. —7 a.m.: Breakfast session. 9 : Close down, 10 : Devotional service. 10.15 : Recordings. (Time signal at 11 a.m.) 12 noon : Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Recordings. 3.30 : A.C.E. (Home Science) talk, “ Sunporch Fittings and Garden Furniture.” 3 : Classical music. (Frost forecast at 3.30 p.m.) 4 : Time signal. Light musical programme. 4.30 : Sports results. 5 : Children’s hour. 0 : Dinner music. 7 : News and reports. 7.30 : Time signal. 7.35: Sunlight League talk by a medical practitioner, “ How to Sunbathe.” 8 : Chimes. March and overture by the Woolston Brass Band (conductor, Mr R. J. Eatall). 8.18 ; Record, baritone. 8.24 : Cornet solo with band accompaniment, Bandsman W. Stevenson and Woolston Band. 8.30 : “Eb and Zeb, the Country Storekeepers,” in another humorous episode (recordings). 8.39: Woolston Band and trombone solo by Bandsman E. Williams. Hymn, Woolston Band. 8.49 : Record, tenor. 8.50 : March, Woolston Band. 9 : Weather report and station notices. 9.5 : Talk, Mr H. Winston Rhodes, “Mark Twain.” 9.20 : Programme of recordings, concluding with “ Music, Mirth, and Melody.” 11 : Close down.

2YA, Wellington.—7 a.m. : Breakfast session. 9 : Close down. 10 ; Chimes. Recordings. 10.30 : Devotional service. 10.45 : Recordings. (Time signal at 11 a.m.) 11.30 : Talk, “ Helpful Advice for the Home.” 12 noon : Lunch music. 2 p.m. : Classical hour. 3 : A.C.E. (Home Science) talk, “ Sunporch Fittings and Garden Furniture.” 3.30 : Frost forecast. Recordings. 4 : Time signal. Recordings. 5 : Children’s hour. 6 : Dinner music. 7 : News and reports. (Time signal at 7.30 p.m.) 7.40 ; Talk by 2YA book reviewer, “ Books, Grave and Gay,” 8 ; Chimes. Chamber music programme. Special recordings, instrumental quartet. 8.23 : A recital by the Australian coloratura soprano, Miss Stella Power, with piano accompaniment and flute obbligato (four numbers). 8.30 : Record, piano. 8.40 : Talk, Professor G. W. von Zedhtz, “Mark Twain’s Centenary.” 9 ; Weather report and station notices. 9.5 : Relay from the Town Hall of ringside description of wrestling contest (announcer, Mr A. Pope). 10 (approx.); Dance music. 11 : Close down.

IYA, Auckland. session. 9 : Close down. 10 : Devotional service. 10.15 : Recordings. (At intervals, commencing about 11.30 a.m., commentaries on events at the Takapuna Jockey Club’s spring meeting will be broadcast from Ellerslie.) 12 noon : Lunch music. 2 p.m. : Recordings. 3.15 : Sports talk. 3.30 : A.C.E. (Home Science) talk, “ Sunporch Fittings and Garden Furniture.” 3.45 : Race commentaries. Recordings. 4.30 : Sports results. 5: Children’s session. 6 : Dinner music. 7 : News and reports. 8 : programme. “Meet Mrs Beeton,” a culinary comedy for every wife, by L. du Garde Peach (produced by Mr J. W. Bailey). 9 : Weather report and station notices. 9.5 : Relay from Town Hall of ringside commentary on boxing match between Yal Luttrell (Hastings) and Sid Wells (Whakatane). 10 (approx.): “Music,

Mirth, and Melody” recordings). 11 Close down.

Empire Transmission No. 1, Daventry (for Australia and New Zealand; New Zealand summer time is given).—B p.m. : Big Ben. The 8.8. C. Dance Orchestra, directed bv Mr Henry Hall. 8.40 ; Talk, “ Revisited.” 9 : Greenwich, time signal. “Mrs Byrne’s Request;” being the tale of a listener’s “ request ” programme. The cast is supported by the 8.8. C. Revue Chorus and the 8.8. C. Empire Orchestra (lender, Mr Daniel Melsa; director, Mr Eric Fogg). 9.45: The news. 10:5; Close down.