WIRELESS BROADCASTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23895, 24 August 1939, Page 2

WIRELESS BROADCASTING

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMMES 4YA, Dunedin.—6.so a.m.: Weather report for aviators (repeated at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.). 7: Session for physical exercises. 7.10: Breakfast session. 9: Close down. 10.5: Recordings 10.15: Devotional service. 10.30: Recordings. 10.50: Talk to women by "Margaret" Recordings. 12 noon: Lunch music. (Weather forecast at 1 p.m.) 2 p.m.: Recordings. 3.30: Sports results. Classical music. (Weather and frost forecast at 4.) 4.30: Light musical programme 4.45: Sports results. 5: Children's hour 6: Dinner music. 7: Rebroadcast from 2YA of news service issued by the Prime Minister's Department, also British official wireless news. 7.10: News and reports. 7.30: Gardening talk. 8: Special recordings—" Patrie " (Bizet), played by the New Symphony Orchestra. 8.14: Miss Meda Paine, soprano, in songs by Grieg—" My. Mind is Like a Peak Snow-crowned." 'ln a Boat." "The Princess," "A Vision, "The Old Mother." 8.25: Special recordings—"En Saga" (a legend) (Sibelius), played by the New Symphony Orchestra. 8.37: Historical panoramic serial—" Man Through the Ages: Japan"; written by James J. Donnelly and produced by the National Broadcasting Service. 9: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Pianoforte recital by Adolph Mann, visiting English pianist—Nocturne, Op. 48, No. 1 (Chopin); Idylle, Op 7, No. 1 (Medtner); "Harp Song" (Adolph Mann); Capriccio, Op. 76, No. 2 (Brahms); Viennese Dance, No. 2 (FriedmanGaertner). 9.20: Recording New Symphony Orchestra plays "Islamey" Oriental Fantasy (Balakireff). 9.28. Recording—Vladimir Rosing, tenor, in> songs by the Russian composers Arensky and Rimsky Korsakov. 9.36: Special recordings—"Le Coq D'Or" Suite (Rimsky Korsakov). played by the London Symphony Orchestra. 10: "Music, Mirth, and Melody" (recordings). 11: Close down

4YO, Dunedin.—s p.m.: Recordings. 6: Close down. 7: After-dinner music. 8: " Rosalie and Her Romances." 8.30: Random recordings. 9: "Night Nurse. 9 30: "The Homestead on the Rise.' 10: In order of appearance—Victorian Quartet, Gino Bordin (guitar), Clara Serena (contralto). 10.30: Closedown. (The above programme consists wholly of recordings.)

3YA, Christchurch.—7 a.m.: Session for physical exercises. 7.10: Breakfast session. 9: Close down. 10: Recordings. 10.30. Devotional service. 10.45: Recordings. 11: Talk to .women by "Margaret." 11.10: Recordings. 11.15: Talk under the auspices of the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women. 11.30: Recordings. 12 noon. Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Recordings- 2.30: A.C.E. (Home Science) talk, "Care of Food in the Home Especially Milk." 3: Classical music. 4: Frost and weather forecast. Light musical programme. 4.30. Sports results. 5: Children's session. 6: Dinner music. 7: Relay from Wellington of Government and overseas news. 7.10: News and reports. 7.35: Talk under the auspices of Canterbury Agricultural College by Mr A. H. Flay, "Lucerne Growing." 7.50: Sheep survey. 8: Recorded feature—" The Woman in White." 8.14: Recording—J. H. Squire Celeste Octet. 8.17: Recorded feature—- " Night Nurse," drama in a great hospital. 8.29 : J. H. Squire Celeste Octet 8.32: Recorded dramatic feature—- " Thrills." 8.45* J. H. Squire Celeste Octet. 8.48 Recorded feature—" Personal Column" —drama from the "agony" column of a newspaper 9: Weather report and station notices 9.5 Talk by Mr H Winston Rhodes, " Famous Men: Karel Capek and Ernest Toller." Karel Capek, a native of Czechoslovakia, is best known as author of "R.U.R.", and Toller, a German, is the author of " Masses and Men." Both dramatists died within the last few months 9.20: Dance music 11: Close down.

2YA, Wellington.—6.so a.m.: Weather report for aviators (repeated at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.). 7: Session for physical

exercises. 7.10: Breakfast session. 9: Closedown. 10.10: Devotional service. 10.25: Recordings. (Time signal at 10.28.) 10.45: Talk to women by "Margaret." Recordings. 12 noon: Lunch music. 2 p.m.: Classical music. 2.30: Broadcast of proceedings from the House of Representatives. 5.30: Children's session for tiny tots. 6: Dinner session. 7. Government and overseas news. 7.10. News and reports. 7.28: Time signal 7.30: Broad* cast of proceedings from > the House of Representatives. 10.30 (approx.): "Music, Mirth, and Melody" (recordings) 11: Close down. IYA, Auckland.—7 am.: Session for physical exercises. 7.10: Breakfast session. 9: Close down. 10: Devotional service. 10.15: Recordings. 11: Talk to women by " Margaret." 11.10: Recordings. 12 noon: Lunch music. 12.30 p.m.: Relay of mid-week service from St. Matthew's Anglican Church. 12.50: Lunch music (continued). 2: Recordings. 2.30* Classical music. 3.15: Sports results. 3.30: A.C.E. (Home Science) talk, " Care of Food in the Home, Especially Milk." 3.45: Light musical programme. (Weather report for farmers at 4.) 4.30: Sports results. 5: Children's session, with at 5.40 the recorded feature "Little Women." 6: An interview with Miss Olga Coelho, a Brazilian soprano, who is well known on the concert platforms of Paris, London, Berlin, and Milan. 6.5 (approx.): Dinner music. 7: Rebroadcast from 2YA of Government and overseas news. 7.10; News and reports. 7.30: Winter course talk by Mr H. R. Rodwell, "Some Leaders of Reform in the Nineteenth Century: Robert Owen." 8: Concert programme. Recorded feature — Mr Chalmers, K.C.": "The Cartwright Case" (Chapter 3). 8.15: Special recordings—" Wandering with the West Wind." 8.45: Recorded serial—" The Fourth' Form at St. Percy's." 9: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Talk by Miss Isabel Cluett, "Memories of the 'Nineties: (3) Musical Evenings." 9.20: Special recordings—Pipers of the Ist Battalion of Scots Guards, with chorus and military band, present "The Gathering of the Clans' (Pipe-major Macintosh) and "Pibroch O'Donald" (Old Scottish air). 9.30: Recorded serial—- " Dad and Dave." 9.43: RecordingPipes and drums of the 2nd Battalion of Scots Guards in Eightsome Reel. 9.46: Recording Barbara Maurel, mezzo - soprano. 9.49: RecordingPipes and drums of 2nd Battalion of Scots Guards. 9.55: Recording—Massed pipe bands at the Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo. 10: Dance music by the swing bands of Count Basie and Bob Crosby, with interludes by Paul Whiteman and his Swing Wing Group (recordings). 11: Close down.

SHORT-WAVE STATION Empire Transmission No. 1, Daventry (for New Zealand and Australia).— 4.30 p.m. (N.Z.standard time): Big Ben. "The Apple Tree," a short story by Galsworthy. 5.20: Programme by the 8.8. C. Empire Orchestra. 6: The news, 6.15: Talk. "World Affairs." 6.30: Variety. 6.45 to close down: Sports news and market notes.