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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23326, 19 October 1937, Page 2

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i TO-DAY’S PROGRAMMES 4YA, Dunedin. Breakfast session. 9 : Close down. 10 : Recordings. 10.15 : Devotional service. 10.30: Recordings. 12 noon: Lunch music. (District weather forecast at 1 p.m.) 2 p.m.: Recordings. 3.30; Sports results. Classical music. 4: Weather and frost forecast. Recordings. 4.30 : Light music. 4.45 : Sports results. 5; Children’s hour. 6: Dinner music. 7: News and reports. 7.30: “This Changing World: Fundamental Discoveries and their Application: Television and Sound Films ” —a talk by Dr C. M. Focken. 8; Chimes. Recording, orchestra. 8.5: Recorded musical comedy serial—Episode 9 of “ Hotel Revue. 8.20 : Programme of miscellaneous recordings. 9.41: Talk by Mr H. A. Glasson, “Dunedin Place Names ” (1). 9: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: A concert by the Kaikorai Band (conductor, Lieutenant H. J. Osborne), with recorded inter-ludes—bass-baritone and tenor songs and a humorous episode by “Eb and Zeb.” 10 : “ 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 Mrs E. Early, “Fashions.” 11.15; Recordings. 12 noon : Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Record ings. 3: Classical music. 4: Time signal. Frost and weather forecast. Light music. 4.30; Sports results. 5: Children’s hour. 6: Dinner music 7: Rebroadcast from 2YA—News service. 7.10: News and reports (3YA). 7.30: Time signal. Talk on books by Mr E. J. Bell. 8; Chimes. Recording, band. 8.5: Recorded serial—Episode 16 of “ Westward Ho ! ” 8.19 : Recording, male quartet in five numbers. 8.27; Recording, orchestra. 8.35: Misses Viola Morris and Victoria Anderson. English singers, entertain in solos and duets. 9: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Talk by Mr Douglas Cresswell, “The Romance of Coal: Glimpses of West Coast Mining ’* (No. 2). 9.20: Recording, orchestra. 9.28: “Secret Intelligence” (Japanese houseboy recordings), 9.43: Recording, “ The Merrymakers.” 9.54: Recordings—Bertha Wilmott and Fred and Lester Douglas with Andre Estan and his orchestra. 10: An hour with Harry Roy and his Orchestra, with vocal interludes by Dorothy Lamour (recordings). 11: Close down.

2YA, Wellington.—6.so a.m.: Weather forecast for aviators (repeated at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.). Breakfast session. 9: Close down. 10.5: Recordings 10.30: Devotional service. 10.45: Recordings.- (Time signal at 11.) 12 noon; Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Classical hour. 3: Sports results. 3.30: Weather report for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago. Recordings. 4: Time signal. Sports results. Recordings. 5: Children's session. 6: Dinner session. 7: News and reports. 7.25: Rebroadcast from the League of Nations short-wave station at Geneva. 7.30: Time signal. Talk by Mr R. Darroch, “ Trafalgar Day.” 7.40: Recorded talk by Professor F. L. W. Wood, professor of history at Victoria University College, speaking at Geneva, “The League and its Work.” (If the parliamentary debates are broadcast to-day, 2YC will broadcast 2YA’s programme.) 8: Chimes. The Hamilton Dickson String Orchestra present “ Bastien und Bastienne ” Overture (Mozart) and “Le Tambourin’’ (Le Clair). 8.10: Miss Dorothy Buckingham, soprano, presents a group of gipsy songs by Brahms. 8.26: The Hamilton Dickson String Orchestra. 8.40: Talk by Miss Valerie Corliss, "A Port of Red Sails: A Stroll Round Brixham.” 0: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: A classical sketch by Mr Browning Mummery, Australian tenor. 9.20: Miss Muriel Jones, pianist, in a Chopin recital (four numbers). 9.36 : Special recordings—“ The .Italian ” Symphony (Mozart), played by the Halle Orchestra, conducted by Hamilton Harty. 10 • “ Music, Mirth, and Melody ” (recordings). 11: Close down. IYA, Auckland.—7 a.m.: Breakfast session. 9: Close down. 10; Devotional service, conducted by Rev. Eric Hames. 10.15 : Recordings. 12 noon : Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Educational session—Mr C. L. Gillies, “ Club Ac tivities for Boys and Girls: (2) Helping the Calf to Grow Up”: Professor Holinrake, "School Music” (sixth lesson); Mr D. Johns, "How Plays Are Made” (third talk). 3: Classical music. 3.15: Sports results. 3.30: Light music. 4; Weather forecast for farmers. Recordings. 4.30: Sports results. 5: Children’s session. 6: Dinner music. 7: News and reports 7.30: Talk by IYA gardening expert. “ Summer Bedding Plants.” 8: Concert programme. Recording, orchestra, 8.5 : “ Gold ” (Japanese houseboy recordings). 8.18: Mr Carl Oldershaw in three piano-accordion melodies. 8.24 : Recorded feature —“ Stories of Famous Women : The Story of the Life of Florence Nightingale.” 8.39: More piano-accordion music by Mr Carl Oldershaw. 8.45: “Eb and Zeb” (recordings). 8.54: Recording, orchestra 0: Weather report and station notices. 0.5: A recorded talk by Mr C. H. Currey, “An Australian Looks at New Zealand.” 9.20: Dance music 11 * Close down.

Empire Transmission No. 1, Daventry (for New Zealand and Australia).— 7 p.m. (N.Z. summer time): Big Ben Violoncello recital by Mr Anthony Pini. 7.20: “ Palace of Varieties." 8.20 • News and announcements. (Greenwich , time signal at 8.30 p.m.) 8.40: “Empire Exchange,” comprising points of view by travellers from the dominions and the colonies. 8.55: Scots songs by Miss Margaret Innes, soprano, and Mr William Carnegie, baritone. 9.15: Close down. PCJ Hilversum, Holland, has been redesigned, and is now the highestpowered short-wave station in the world, and transmits a special programme to New Zealand every Tuesday at 9.30 p.m. to 11 p.m., New Zealand summer time, on 19.71 metres.