WIRELESS BROADCASTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23931, 5 October 1939, Page 3

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 til! 12 midnight, Sundays and weekdays. The extra transmission periods will either be occupied with Daventry news broadcasts or miscellaneous musical programmes. 4YA, Dunedin.—6.so am.: 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. (At intervals, .commencing about 12.30 p.m., running commentaries on events at the Dunedin Jockey Club's meeting will be broadcast on relay from Wingatui, and the weather forecast will be announced at 1 p.m.) 1.30 p.m.: Rebroadcast from Wellington of educational session (see 2YA prograrmme). 2.30: Recordings. (Weather and frost forecast at 4.) 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 (approx.): News and reports. 7.30: Gardening talk. 8: Special recordings—" Don Juan " Overture (Mozart), played by the London Symphony Orchestra. 8.10: Recording—Lotte Lehmann, soprano, sings "To Chloe ' (Mozart), " The Drums Beating Loudly ' cr.d " Cheerful and Tearful" (Beethoven). 8.19: Recording—Myra Hess, pianist, in two numbers by Bach. 8.25: Recording—The Charles Brill Orchestra plays "The World on the Moon" (Haydn). 8.41: Recorded talk by Mr J.H. Kemnitz, "Twelve Hundred Universities." 9: Weather report and station notices. 9.5 : Recording—B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra plays " Coriolan " Overture (Beethoven). 9.13: Recording—Heinrich Schlusnus, baritone, in songs by Schubert—" Faith in Spring," "The Wanderer," "To the Lyre." 9.24: Special recordings—Concerto No. 1 in D major (Paganini), played by Yehudi Menuhin, violinist, and the Symphony Orchestra of Paris, conducted by Pierre Monteux. 10: " Music, Mirth, and Melody" (recordings). 11: Daventry news broadcasts or miscellaneous recordings. 12 midnight: Close down. 4YO, Dunedin. —5 p.m.: Recordings. 6: Close down. 7: After-dinner music. 8: "Rosalie and Her Romances." 8.30: Random recordings—a session of light variety, interrupted to present at 9 " Night Nurse," and again at 9.30 " The Homestead on the Rise." 10: In order of appearance—Fred Hartley's Quintet, John Charles Thomas (baritone), and Lothar Perl (piano). 10.30: Close down.

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, " The Working Man's Diet." 3: Classical music. 4: Frost and weather forecast. Light musical programme. 4.30: Sports results. 5: Children's hour. 6: Dinner music. 7: Rebroadcast from 2YA of Government and overseas news. 7.10 (approx.): News and reports. -7.35: Review of the Journal of Agriculture. 7.50: Sheep survey. 8: Recorded feature—" The Woman in White." 8.13: Recording— J. H. Squire Celeste Octet. 8.16: Recorded feature—" Personal Column," drama from the " agony" column of a newspaper. 8.28: Recording—J. H. Squire Celeste Octet. 8.31: Recorded dramatic serial—" The Twelve Labours of Hercules." This series tells of a young man named Hector Cousins, known to his friends as "Hercules," who inherits £SOOO, and of a family

retainer, Bartholomew Stubbins. The worthy Hector undertakes to perform 12 tasks similar to those of the mythical Hercules, in order to prove himself worthy of his fiancee, and the help that Bartholomew is able to give leads one to believe that he was worth far more to Hector than the £5000.. 9: Weather forecast and station notices. 9.5: Talk by Professor L. G. Pocock, "Herodotus." 9.20: Dance music._ 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.) 10.45: Talk to women by "Isobel," "Bits and Pieces" (3). Recordings. 12 noon: Lunch music. 1,30 p.m.: Educational session—" The Changing World," .talk by the school reporter; " Story and Dance in Music " (9)< by Dr A. E. Fieldhouse; "Homes, Then and Now" (6), Mr W..J. McKeon; "Adventure in -Five Continents" (9), Mr L. B. Quartermain. 2.30: Broadcast of proceedings from the House of Representatives. 5.30: Children's session. 6: Dinnei 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.): "Music, Mirth, and Melody" (recordings). 11: 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 : . 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, "The Working Man's Diet." 3.45: Light musical,.programme. (Weather report for farmers at 4.) 4.30: Sports results. 5: Children's session, featuring at 5.30 "Little Women." 6: Dinner music..; 7: Rebroadcast from 2YA of Government and overseas hews. 7.10 (approx.): News and reports. 7.30: Talk by Mr S. Leatham, " Some Leaders of Reform in the Nineteenth Century: Joseph Chamberlain." 8: Concert programme. •Recorded feature—" Mr Chalmers, K.C.": "The Inquest Case" (Chapter:l). 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: Recorded talk by Mr Eric Ramsden, "Canoe Tracks to Tahiti." 9.20: Recording Massed bands of the Aldershot and Eastern Commands. 9.26: Recording—Cornet solo by Harry Mortimer. 9.30: Recorded serial —"Dad and Dave." 9.43: Recording —Royal Air Force Band. 9.49: Recording—Richard Crooks, tenor. 9.52 : Recording—Foden's Motor Works Band. 10: Programme by the Rhythmmakers' Orchestra, with interludes by Milt Herth on the Hammond organ (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 No. 1 are 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., New Zealand summer time.