WIRELESS BROADCASTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22832, 17 March 1936, Page 2

WIRELESS BROADCASTING

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMES 4YA, Dunedin. —7 a.m.: Breakfast 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 hour, 6 : Dinner music. 7 : News and reports. 8: _ Chimes. A programme of new recordings. 8.40 : Talk by Mr George Howes, “ Fish Research Work at Pnrtobello.” 9: Weather report and Station notices. 9.5 : A St. Patrick’s Day programme (recordings), featuring band numbers, tenor solos, and cornet solo. The programme will include (at 9.28) the special recordings “ Eb and Zeb, the Country Storekeepers,’ m another humorous episode, and iat 10) “Music, Mirth, and Melody.” 11: Close down.

3YA, Christchurch. —7 a.m.: Breakfast session. 9: Close down. 10: Devotional e.ervice. 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 snecial weather forecast for farmers. Light musical programme. 4.30 : Sports results. 5 : Children’s session (“Alice in Orchestrnlia ” at 6.30). 0 : Dinner music. 7 : News and reports. 7.30 : Time signal. Dialogue under the auspices of the Youth Hostel Association by Messrs A. G. Bogle and J. M. Steeds, of the ’Varsity Tramping Club, “A Holiday with Rucksack.” 8 ; Chimes. The love story of Thomas Costello and Una MacDermott, a theme programme narrated by Mr H. L. Shaw, being a page from the romantic folklore of a country pre-eminently rich in stories of great loves—and hates —Ireland, with a musical commentary in tune with the theme. 9.32 : Record, band. 8.39 : Twenty minutes of Irish melodies (recordings). 9 : Weather report and station notices. 9 5 : Talk by Rev. Father James Maguire, “ The Day We Celebrate.” 9.20 : Re; cord, orchestra. 9.25 “Odes to Beauty, a further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and his employer (recordings). 9.40: A quarter of an hour with the Kingsmen, radio’s royal quartet (recordings). 9.55 : Record, orchestra. 10 : Dance music. 11 : Close down.

2YA, Wellington.—7 a.m.: Breakfast session. 9 : Cloge down. 10 ; Chimes. Recordings. 10.30: Devotional service. 10,45 : Recordings. (Time signal at 11.) 11.30: Talk, “The Little Black Book. 12 noon : Running commentaries on the events (second day) at the Wellington Racing Club’s meeting will be broadcast, interspersed with selected recordings from the studio. The announcer is Mr D. Guiney. 5 : Children’s hour. 6 : Dinner music.' 7 : News and reports. (Time signal at 7.30.) 7.40: “ Talks on English Speech,” Part 2—a short course on English pronunciation prepared and recorded by Mr A. Lloyd James, University reader in phonetics, London. 8 : Chimes. An Irish Cameo” (recorded programme ot Irish songs and melodies). 8.40 : Talk by Mr Justice Blair, “ Gentlemen of the Road.” 9 : Weather report and station notices. 9.5 : Relay of St. Patrick’s Day concert from tlic Town Hall, introducing Mrs Nicholas O’Shea, soprano; Mrs Wilfred Andrews, contralto; Miss Valerie Aslicndcn, elocutionist; Mr J. NewtonGoodson. baritone; Mr Ray Trewern, tenor; Mr Frank L. Histed, baritone; the Marist Brothers’ Combined Choir: and the Tin Hat Club Orchestra. 10 (approx.): “ Music, Mirth, and Melody ’ (recordings). 11: Close down, IYA, Auckland. 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 D. M. Rae, “ Our Pacific Neighbours : (2) The Island Peoples of the Pacific”; Professor Hollinrake, “ School Music ”; Mr C. R. Gillies, “Plants and Man: (3) The Story of Running Sap.” 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). 0: Dinner music. 7 ; News and reports. 7.30 : Book review. 8 : Concert programme. Record, vocal quintet. 8.10 : *Eb and Zeb. the Country Storekeepers,” in another humorous episode (recordings). 8.20: “Music Round the Campfire ” (recordings) 8.35: Successful Practice,” being a further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and his employer (recordings). 8.50 ; Special recordings of orchestral music. 9 • Weather report and station notices. 9.5 : Talk by Mr A. A. Gray, “Sport in England.” 9.20 : Dance music. 11 : Close down.

Empire Transmission No. 1. Dnvcntry (for New Zealand and Australia; New Zealand summer time is given).—6.ls p.m. : Big Ben. Military marches by the Band of lI.M. Coldstream Guards (conductor, Lieutenant J. C. Windram). 6.25; Mr Frederic Bayco at the organ of the Dominion Theatre. Tottenham Court road, London. 6.55 : Talk, “ The Spice of Life.” 7.15 : Greenwich time signal. “St. Patrick’s Day”—a Shamrock programme presented by Mr John Pudney. 8 : The news. 8.15 : Close down.