WIRELESS BROADCASTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22826, 10 March 1936, Page 2

WIRELESS BROADCASTING

TO-DAY’S PROGRAMMES 4YA, Dunedin. session. 9 : Close down. 10 : Recordings. 10.15 : Devotional service. 10.30 : Recordings. 12 noon : Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Recordings. 3.30 : Sports results. Classical music. 4: Weather forecast for farmers. Recordings. 4.30 : Light musical programme. 4.45 : Sports results. 5 : Children’s session. 6 : Dinner music. 7: News and reports. 7.30: Talk by C. W. Postgate, “ Health and Strength.” 8: Chimes. Programme of new recordings. 8.40: Rebroadcast from 2YA of talk by a representative of thp Government Statistician on the census to be taken on March 24. 9 : Weather report and station notices. 9.5: March and overture by the St. Kilda Band (conductor, Mr A. W. E. Webb). 9.16 ;“ Eb and Zeb, the Country Storekeepers,” in another humorous episode (recordings). 9.25 : Waltz and humoresque, St. Kilda Band, 9.35 : Miss Tui Pennell, contralto (four numbers). 9.46 : Selection, St. Kilda Band. 10 : “Music, Mirth, and Melody ” (recordings). 11 ; Close down.

3YA, Christchurch. —7 a.m.: Breakfast session. 9 : Close down. 10: Devotional service. 10.15: Recordings. 11 : Time signal. Talk by Miss V. Chaffey, “Fashions.” 11.17: Recordings. 12 noon : Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Recordings. 3 : Classical music. 4 : Time signal and special weather forecast for farmers. Light musical programme. 4.30: Sports results. 5: Children’s hour (“Alice in Orchestralia ” at 5.30). 6 : Dinner music. 7 : News and reports. 7.30 : Time signal. Talk by Mr E. B. Wiltshire, “ Books of the Month.” 8 : Chimes. A continuity programme—- “ Famous Rivers : The Ganges,” being a short account of some interesting facts connected with that river of colourful history, relieved by the inclusion at intervals of recordings of a type in sympathy with the Oriental atmosphere (narrator, Dr Robinson Hall). 8.40: Rebroadcast from 2YA of talk by a representative of the Government Statistician on the census to be taken on March 24. 9 : Weather report and station notices. 9.5 : Talk by Rev. Lawrence M. Rogers, “Place Names in Canterbury.” 9.20 : Record, novelty orchestra. 9.25 : “A Tender Heart.” a further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and his employer (recordings), 9.40: “Music at Your Fireside” (recordings). 9.55: Record, orchestra. 10 : Dance music. 11 ; Close down.

2YA, AVellington.—7 a.m.: Breakfast session. 9 : Close down. 10 : Chimes. Recordings. 10.30: Devotional service. 10.45 : Recordings. (Time signal at 11.). 11.30 : Talk, “ Resuscitation.” 12 noon : Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Classical hour. 3: Sports results. 3.30 : Special weather forecast for farmers. Recordings. 4 : Time signal. Sports results. Recordings. 5: Children’s hour. 6: Dinner music. 7: News and reports. (Time signal at 7-30.) 7.40 : “ Talks on English Speech,” Part I—a1 —a short course on English pronunciation prepared and recorded by Mr A. Lloyd James, M.A., University Reader in Phonetics, London. 8 : Chimes. Relay from the Town Hall of first concert of the 1936 season by the Wellington Symphony Orchestra (conductor, Mr Leon de Mauny). 8.40: From the studio —Talk by a representative of the Government Statistician on the census to be taken on March 24. 9 : Weather report and station notices. 9.5 : Resumption of programme by the AA r ellington Symphony Orchestra, on relay from the Town Hall. 10 (approx.): “Music, Mirth, a. 1 Melody”(recordings). 11 : Close down.

IYA, Auckland. —7 a.m.: Breakfast session. 9: Close down. 10: Devotional service. 10.15 : Recordings. 12 noon: Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Relay from the Training College, Epsom, of educational session—Mr F. C. Lopdoll, “Our Pacific Neighbours: A Tour Around the Rim of the Pacific Basin Professor Hollinrake, “ School Music Mr C. L. Gillies, “Plants and Man: Our Main Food Factory, the Green Plant.” 3 : Classical music. 3.15: Sports results. 3.30 : Light musical programme. 4 : Special weather report for farmers. Recordings. 4.30 : Sports results. 5 : Children’s hour (“Richard the Lionheart” at 5.45). 6: Dinner music. 7: News and reports. 8 : Concert programme. “Eb and Zeb, the Country Storekeepers.” in another humorou episode (recordings). 8.10: A quarter of an hour with the Kingsmen, radio’s royal quartet (recordings). 8.25: “Advanced Plans,” being a further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and his employer (recordings). 8.40; Rebroadcast from 2YA of talk by a representative of the Government Statistician on the census to be taken on March 24. 0 ; Weather report and station notices. 9.5 : Special recordings, baritone recital. 9.20 : Dance music. II : Close down. Empire Transmission No. 1, Daventry (for New Zealand and Australia; New Zealand summer time is given).—7.ls p.m. : Big Ben. ALiriety. 8: Popular ballads, sung by Miss Dorothy Bennett, sopranq, and Mr Edward Reach, tenor. 8.30 : Talk by the chief engineer of the 8.8. C. 8.45 : Recital by Miss Margot Macgibbon, Australian violinist. 9: The news. 9.15 : Close down.