BROADCASTING
TODAY’S PROGRAMMES 4YZ INVERCARGILL (680 Kilocycles) 12.30 p.m.: Lunch music. 1.30: Close down. 70- Chimes. Rebroadcast from Station 4YA, Dunedin. Selected recordings. 7.15: Children’s session, featuring another story of “Once Upon a Time”— Sleeping Beauty.” 7.30: Hill Billy programme. 7.45: Dance session. o 8.0: Superstition—“ The Bogey Man. 8.15: A brief piano programme. 8.30: Talk on "Swimming” by Mr H. Asnley, president of the Southland Centre, N.Z. Amateur Swimming Association. 8.45: Paul Robeson (bass). 9.0: Relay 4YO, Dunedin.. 10.0: Close down.
IYA AUCKLAND (650 Kilocycles)
6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: Official news and British Official Wireless news. 7.10 (approx): News and reports. 8.0: Concert programme. A studio presentation of the dramatic play, “Murder in the Silo." 8.30: A recorded presentation: Great Mysteries of the Sea: An Admiral’s Order. 9.0- Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Talk, Mr F. L. Armitage, “Psittacosis or Parrots Disease.” 9.20: The Studio Orchestra. 9.27: Tony Rex (baritone). 9.34: TVe Studio Orchestra. 9.42: Tony Rex (baritone). 9.49: The Studio Orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.
Alternative Station IYX (880 Kilocycles)— 5.0: Light music. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: A Noel Coward selection. 8.35: The Yodelling Boundary Rider. 8.42: Carroll Gibbons. 8.48: Carson Robinson Pioneers. 9.5: “The National Programme.” 9.15: “From Opera and Operetta.” 9.24: “The Easy Chair. 9.40: Modern dance music. 10.30: Close down.
2YA WELLINGTON (570 Kilocycles)
6-50: Weather for aviators. 7.0: Breakfast session. 10.0: Weather for aviators. 10,30: Devotional service. 11.30: Talk, by a representative of the St. John Ambulance, “First-aid in an Emergency.” 12.0: Lunch music. . 1.0: Weather for aviators. 2.0: Classical hour. 3.0: Talk, prepared by the A.C.E., Home Science Tutorial Section of Otago University “Edifying the Home With Flowers.” Sports results. 3.30: Weather for farmers. Frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago. 4.0: Time signals. Sports results. 5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: Official news and British Official Wireless news. 7.10 (approx.): News and reports. 7.30: Time signals. 7.40: “Holiday Road Safety.” 7.43: News and reports. 8.0: Chimes. A chamber music programme. Recordings: Marcel Darrieux, Marcel Moyse and Pierre Pasguier. 8.16: A recital by Harold Presscott (tenor). 8.26: Decima Hughson and Ina Stevens. 8.40: Talk: Phyllis Williams, “Looking for Maori Songs.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: A programme by the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Choir with interludes. 10.0: Dance music. 11.0: Close down.
Alternative Station 2YC (840 Kilocycles)— 5.0: Light music. 8.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Band programme. 9.0: Musical comedy. 10.0: In lighter vein. 10.30: Close down.
3YA CHRISTCHURCH (720 Kilocycles)
7.0: Breakfast session. 10.0: Devotional service. 11.0: Time signals. Talk: Miss Doreen Brown "The Work of the Royal Life Saving Society." 11.10: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch music.
2.30: Talk, prepared by the A.C.E., “Edifying the Home With Flowers.” 3.0: Classical music. 4.0: Time signal. Frost and weather forecast. Light music. 4.30: Sports results. 5.0: Children's hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: Rebroadcast 2YA. 7.10: News and reports. 7.20: “Road Safety Campaign.” 7.30: Time signals. 7.35: Talk: Our Garden Expert, “Work for the Month.” 8.0: Chimes. Recording: 8.8. C. Wireless Military Band. 8.13: Thomas E. West (tenor). 8.20: Recording: Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards. 8.28: “Eb and Zeb.” 8.37: Recording: Leicester Grand Massed Brass Bands. 8.44: Thomas E. West. 8.51: Recording: Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards. 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Talk: Mr Douglas Cresswell, “Discovering Our Country—Shearing.” 9.20: Ernest Jenner (piano). 9.35: Recording: Elsie Suddaby (soprano). 9.44: Pro Arte Quartet. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.
Alternative Station 3YL (1200 Kilocycles)— 5.0: Recordings. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: Afterdinner music. 8.0: Joe Loss and his Orchestra. 8.32: The Fourth Form at St. Michael’s. 8.40: Fred Stein. 8.50: Gladys Moncrieff. 8.56: An organ item. 9.0: “Snapshots.” 9.30: Cotton Comedy numbers. 10.0: Melodia. 10-30: Close down.
4YA DUNEDIN (790 Kilocycles)
7.0: Chimes. Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Recordings. 10.15: Devotional service. 12.0: Lunch music.
1.0: District weather. 2.0: Recordings. 3.30: Sports results Classical music. 4.0: Weather and frost forecasts. 4.30: Light programme. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: Official news and British Official Wireless news. 7.10 (approx): News and reports. 7.30: News and lecture for farmers, arranged by the Farmers' Union.
8.0: Chimes. The Lyric Choir presents “The Rebel Maid.” 10.0 (approx): Jimmie Lunceford entertains. 11.0: Close down.
Alternative Station 4YO (1140 Kilocycles)— 5.0: Recordings. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: Afterdinner music. 8.0: “Melodies of the Moment.” 8.30: "Murder in Manila." 8.45: "Kunz Revivals.” 8.52: “A Fantasy in Blue.”
9.0: “Review of Reviews.” 10.0: Comedy and music. 10.30: Close down. BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION G.M.T.— 8.15 a.m. Big Ben. The 8.8. C. Empire Orchestra. 9.5 a.m. “In Town Tonight.” 9.35 a.m. The news and announcements. 9.55 a.m. “Long-distance Listening.” A talk by Sir Walford Davies, C.V.O. 10.25 a.m. Close down.
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Southland Times, Issue 23375, 6 December 1937, Page 16
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