WIRELESS BROADCASTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23058, 8 December 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: Ball-by-ball description of play on the fourth day of the first cricket test match, England v. Australia, played at Brisbane. 3.30: Recordings. 4: Weather report and frost forecast. Recordings. 4.45 : Children's session. 5.30: Description of play in the cricket test match. 6: Dinner music. 7: News and reports. 7.30: Inscription of play in the cricket test match. 8: Chimes. A programme of new recordings. 8.40: A 8.8. C. recorded talk—" Conquest of the Air ' (No. 7). 9: Resume of the day's play in the cricket test match. 9.10: Weather report and station notices. 9.15: Record, massed bands. 9.18: "Eb and Zeb, the Country Storekeepers," in another humorous episode (recordings). 9.25: Record, band. 9.31: Record, male duet. 9.34: "Dunedin" March (Alford) by Woolston Brass Band (recordings). 9.38: Commentary on the day's play in the cricket test match by Mr C. B. Fry, famous English captain. 9.55: " Music, Mirth, and Melody * (recordings). 11: Close down. 4YO. Dunedin. will broadcast an alternative programme from 5 p.m. 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: Ball-by-ball description of play on the fourth day of the first cricket test match, England v. Australia, played at Brisbane. 3.30: Classical music. 4: Time signal. Frost and special weather forecast. Lignt musical programme. 4.45: Children's session. 5.30: Description of play in the first cricket test match. 6 : Dinner music. 6.35: Talk by Dr J. Restall Thomas, " St. John Ambulance Association." 6.42: Talk under the auspices of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association by Mr D. V. Wilson, " Our' Own Country's Manufacturing Industries' (4). 7: News and reports. 7.30: Commentary on first cricket test match. 8: Chimes. A theme programme (recordings)—"America, the Great Experimenter." On a magic vehicle, propelled by that subtle but compelling, force, musical association, listeners are conducted on a whirlwind tour of that great country, so rich in feature and incident—the United States of America. 8.40: Talk by Miss Drayton, of London, organising and general secretary of the Victoria League, " Victoria League Throughout the World." 9: Resume of the day's play in the first cricket test match. 9.10: Weather report and station notices. 9.15 : " Two Resignations," a further episode in the lives of a Japanese honseboy and his employer (recordings). 9.30: Record, band. 9.38 : Commentary on the day's play in the first cricket test match by Mr C. B. Fry, famous English captain. 9.55: Record, orchestra. 10: An hour with Hal Kemp and his orchestra (recordings). 11: Close down;./ ~ 2YA, a.m.: Breakfast session. 9: Close down. 10: Record? ings. 10.30: Devotional service. 10.45: Recordings. (Time signal at 11.) 12 noon : Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Classical hour. 3: Ball-by-ball description of play on the fourth day of the first cricket test match, England v. Australia, played at Brisbane. 3.30: Special weather forecast for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago. 4.45: Children's session. 5.30: Description of play in the first cricket test match. 6: Dinner music. 6.40: Talk by Mr C. S. Perry (deputylibrarian, Wellington Public Library), "Books of the Year." 7: News and reports. 7.30: Time signal. Description of play in the first cricket test match. 8: Chimes. The 2YA Concert Orchestra presents " Fingal's Cave overture (Mendelssohn). 8.12: Special recordings of pianoforte music (four Mendelssohn numbers). 8.23: Record, soprano. 8.29: Tone poem, 2YA Concert Orchestra. 8.37: Record, bassbaritone. 8.40: Recorded talk by Mr W. W. Bird, " Maori Songs." 9 : Commentary by Mr C. B. Fry, famous English cricket captain, on play in the first test match. 9.10: A recital by the celebrated violinist Arved Kurtz (five numbers). 9.30: Rhapsody, 2YA Concert Orchestra. 9.38: Commentary by Mr Fry on the cricket test match. 9.55: 2YA Concert Orchestra. 10: "Music, Mirth, and Melody" <recordings). U : Close down.

IYA, Auckland.—7 a.m.: Breakfast session. 9: Close down. 10: Devotional service. 10.15: Recordings. i2 noon : Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Recordings. 2.30: Classical programme. 3: Ball-by-ball description of play on the fourth day of the first cricket test mutch, England v. Australia, played at Brisbane. 3.30: Light musical programme. 4 : Special weather forecast for farmers. Recordings. 4.30: Sports results. 4.45 : Children's session. 5.30 : Description of play in the first cricket test match. 6: Dinner music. 6.30: Book review. 7: News and reports 7.30: Description of play in the first cricket test match. 8: Concert programme. Concert waltz by IYA Orchestra (conductor, Mr Harold Baxter). 8.5 : " The Voice of the People : Catherine the Great," being one of a series of recorded short plays dealing with the rulers of the Russian people. 8.13: "Eb and Zeb, the Country Storekeepers," in another humorous episode (recordings). 8.23: Mr R. F. Smith, saxophonist. 8.28: Record, sketch. 8.34: Waltz, IYA Orchestra. 8.40' "Landscape Gardening," a further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and his employer (recordings). 8.54: Mr R. F. Smith, saxophonist. 9 : Resume of the day's play in the first cricket test match. 9.10: Weather report and station notices. 9.15: Reserved. 9.30: Dance programme. 9.38: Commentary by Mr C B. Fry. famous English cricket captain, on play in the first test match. 9.55: Continuation of dance nrogramme. 11.15: Close down.

Empire Transmission No. 1, Daventry (for New Zealand and Australia).— 8 p.m. (summer time): Big Ben. Programme by Mr Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans (by permission of the Savoy Hotel, Ltd.), with Mr Brian Lawrence (Australian vocalist). Miss Anne Lenner. and the three Ginz, Compere, James Dyrenforth. 8.30: The first cricket test match, Australia v. England —an account of the fourth day's play by Mr Alan Kippax from Brisbane (in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Commission). 8.55: "The Policeman's Lot," a talk by an assistant superintendent of police, Kenya. 9.10 : Mis; Marjorie Hayward, violinist, and Mr G. O'Connor-Morris, pianist, present, the Beethoven sonata "The Kreutzer." 9.40: The news and announcements. (Greenwich time signal at 9.45.) 10: Close down.