WIRELESS BROADCASTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23918, 20 September 1939, Page 2

WIRELESS BROADCASTING

TO-DAY’S PROGRAMMES Transmission » Hours. —ln the meantime the| four National Stations, IYA, 2YA, 3YA, and 4YA, will observe continuous hours of transmission from 6 a.m. till 12 midnight, Sundays and weekdays. The extra transmission periods will either be occupied with Daventry news broadcasts or miscellaneous musical programmes.

4YA, Dunedin. —6.50 a.m.; Weather report for aviators (repeated at 10 a.m. and 1 pm). 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: Relay from Mayfair Theatre of South Dunedin community sing. 1.30 p.m. (approx.): Weather forecast. Lunch music. 2: Recordings. 3.15: A.C.E. (Home Science) talk, “ Emergency Meals.” 3.30: Sports results. Classical music. (Weather and frost forecast at 4.) 4.30: Light musical programme 4.45: Sports results. 5: Children’s horn*. 6: Dinner music. 7: Rebroadcast from 2YA of news service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department, also British official wireless news. 7.10 (approx.): News and reports. 7.30: Talk by motor expert, “Helpful Hints to Motorists.” 8: Recorded feature —“ Mittens.” a tale of the Turf.’ 8.15: Special recordings—” The Bold, Bad Buccaneers” in humour and harmony. 8.28 : Recorded serial—" The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 8.40: Reserved. 9: Weather report and station notices. 9.5 : Recorded serial—- “ Westward Ho!” 9.18: Recorded dramatic feature Recorded feature—" Exploits of the Black Moth: Murder at the Police Ball”; produced by James Raglan and company. 10: Casa Loma Orchestra, with vocal interludes by Vera Lynn (recordings). 11: Daventry news broadcasts or miscellaneous recordings 12 midnight: Close down.

4YO, Dunedin.— s p.m.: Recordings. 6: Close down. 7; After-dinner music. 8: Orchestral programme, featuring the French composers DTndy, Bizet, and Massenet, 9.15: Highlights from grand opera. 10: Music and merriment. 10.30; Close down. (The above programme consists wholly of recordings.)

3YA, Christchurch— 7 a.m.: Session for physical exercises. 7.10: Breakfast session. 9: Closd down. 10: Recordings. 10.30: Devotional service. 10.45: Recordings. 11; Talk to women by “Margaret.” 11.10: Women’s session, conducted by Mrs L. E. Rowlatt. 11.30: Recordings. 12 noon : Lunch music. 1.30 p.m.: Educational session—Miss J. Hay, “Rhythmic Movement” (for infants and Standards 1 and 2); Mr L. Jennings, “ Robert Owen ” (for Standards 3 and 4); Mr A. G. Linn, “Later Schools” (for Forms 1 and 2). 2.40: Recordings. 3; Classical music. 4: Frost and weather forecast. Light musical programme. 4.30: Sports results. 5: Children’s session. 6: Dinner music. 7: Rebroadcast from 2YA of Government and overseas news. 7.10 (approx.): News and reports. 7.20; Addington Stock Market report 7.32: Recorded talk by Professor W. A. Sewell, “A Hope for Poetry” (2) 8: Readings by Mr O. L. Simmance, with music. Readings from .* Pickwick Papers” (Charles Dickens) and light verse. Recorded music— Capet String Quartet plays Allegro from Quartet in A major (Beethoven); Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays Scherzo from Suite, Op. 19 (Dohnanyi), 8.30: Relay from the Civic Theatre of concert by the Royal Christchurch Musical Society (conductor, Mr F, A. Bullock)—“St. Patrick’s Prayer (Burke) (for chorus, orchestra, and organ); “Choral Fantasia" (Beethoven) (for solo piano, orchestra, and chorus). Solo pianist, Mr Noel Newson. 9: Weather forecast and station notices. 9.5: Special recordings—“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Overture (Mendelssohn), played by the Berlin State Opera House Orchestra. 9.17: Recording—Felicie Huni-Mihac-sek, soprano, with orchestra. 9.25: Special recordings—Symphony No. 1 in B flat major (Schumann), played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. 10: “ Music, Mirth, and Melody ” (recordings. 11: Daventry news broadcasts or miscellaneous recordings. 12 midnight: 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: Close down. 10.10: Devotional service. 10.25: Recordings. (Time signal at 10.28.) 12 noon : Relay from the Town Hall of community singing. 1.5 p.m.: Recordings. 1.30: Rebroadcast from 3YA of educational session for infant classes. 1.50: Recordings. 2: Classical music. 2.30: Broadcast of proceedings from the House of Representatives. 5.30: Children’s session. 6: Dinner session. 7: Government and overseas news. 7.10 (approx.): News and reports. 7.28: Time signal. 7.30: Broadcast of proceedings from the House of Representatives. 10.30 (approx.): Dance programme. 11 (approx.): Daventry news broadcasts or miscellaneous recordings. 12 midnight : Close down.

IYA, Auckland— 7 a.m.: 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: Relay from the Mayfair Theatre of community singing. 1.30 p.m.: Lunch music. 2: Recordings. 2.30: Classical music. 3.15 . Sports results. 3.30: Light musical programme. (Weather report for farmers at 4.) 4.30: Sports results. 5: Children’s session. 6: Dinner music. 7: Rebroadcast from 2YA of Government and overseas news. 7.10 (approx.): News and reports. 7.40: Talk under the auspices of the Government Youth Centre. 8 : Concert programme, featuring a studio recital of chamber music by Mr Alfred Hill, arranged and presented by the composer. The Alfred Hill String Quartet—Mis s Helen Gray (violin), Miss Moya Cooper-Smith (violin), Mr Alfred Hill (viola), Mr Trevor de Clive Lowe (’cello) —plays String Quartet No. 13 in E Flat. Miss Sybil Phillips, soprano, sings “Mopoke,” with string accompaniment. Miss Moya Cooper-Smith, violinist, and Miss Mirrie Hill, pianist, play Sonata for violin and pianoforte in three movements. Miss Sybil Phillips sings “The Passing of Sir Tristan,” with string accompaniment. The Alfred Hill String Quartet plays two Gaelic airs—“ My Lover Wounded,” “Willie’s Auld Trews.” 9: Weather report and station notices. 9.5 : Recorded feature —“ Those We Love,” a story of people like us—the Marshalls. 9.29 ; Recording—Andre Kostelanetz presents “Revenge with Music.” 9.37 : Recording Marcel Wittrisch, tenor, with chorus and orchestra, in “Lauder and Lieder.” 9.45; A 8.8. C. recorded production—“ Poor Polly,” a Cockney sketch by Mabel Constanduros. 10: “ Music, Mirth, and Melody” (recordings). 11: Daventry news broadcasts or miscellaneous recordings. 12 midnight: Close down. SHORT-WAVE STATION Daventry programmes are subject to alteration without notice other than by announcements preceding transmission. The usual broadcast hours for Transmission 1 are 6 p.m. to 8.15 p.m., New Zealand standard time.