BROADCASTING

Southland Times, Issue 23390, 23 December 1937, Page 12

BROADCASTING

TODAY’S PROGRAMMES 4YZ INVERCARGILL (680 Kilocycles) 12.30 p.m.: Luncheon music. 1.30: Close down. 7.0: Chimes. Rebroadcast from Station 4YA, Dunedin. Some humour and light music. 1 7.15: Children’s session. . 7.30: The adventures of a Japanese houseboy and his employer, "Aotearoa.” 7.45: Quartet in D Major (Mozart), played by the Budapest String Quartet. 8.10: Richard Tauber (tenor). 8.25: J. H. Squire Celeste Octet. 8.40: Peter Dawson (bass baritone). 8.55: Albert Sandler and his Orchestra. 9.5: Relay 4YA, Dunedin, featuring Sascha Berliner’s Continental Ensemble. 10.0: Close down. IYA AUCKLAND (650 Kilocycles) 2.0: Recordings. 2.30: Classical hour. 3.15: Sports results. 3.30: Talk, prepared by the Association for Country Education. 3.45: Light music. 4.0: Weather for farmers. 4.30: Sports results. 5.0: Children’s hour, conducted by Cinderella. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: Official news service and British Official Wireless news (rebroadcast from 2YA). 7.10 (approx.): News and reports. 7.30: Talk: Mr Wills T. G. Airey. 8.0: Concert programme. Special programme: "The Man in the Street” presents "The Life of Caruso in Story and Song.” 8.40: Light music and dark mystery at the "Cafe Continentale.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Recorded talk by the editor of The New Zealand Law Journal. 9.25: Half an hour with the world-famous Comedy Harmonists. 10.0: "Swing As We Go.” An hour of dance music by the swing bands, with interludes by Mary Lou Williams. 11.0: Close down.

Alternative Station IYX (880 Kllocycles)5.0: Light music 6.0: Close down. 7.0: Afterdinner music. 8.0: Prisca String Quartet. 8.25. Enrico Caruso (tenor). 8.33: Beethovens Piano and Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, played by Fritz Krelsler and Franz Rupp. 8.54: Society of Wind Instruments with Erwin SchulhofE (piano). 9.15: Kirsten Flagstad (soprano). 9.21: A programme of band music by the Auckland Artillery Band, conducted by Captain George Buckley. The Band. Eric Child (baritone). The Band (comet duet with band accompaniment). Eric Child (bartione). The Band. 10.0: Variety. 10.30: Close down.

2YA WELLINGTON (570 Kilocycles)

6.50: Weather for aviators. 7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Weather for aviators. 10.30: Devotional service. 110: Time' signals. 12.0: Lunch music. 1.0: Weather for aviators. 2.0: Classical hour. 3.0: Sports results. 3.30: Weather for farmers. Frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago. 4.0: Time signals Sports results. 5.0: Children’s session, conducted by Uncle Pat. 6.0: Dinner session. 7.0: Official news and British Official Wireless news (rebroadcast by the National stations). 7.30: Time signal. “Who’s Who and What’s What?” A ramble in the news by “Coranto.” 7.40: News and reports. ( 8.0: Chimes. A popular programme. A Sniffer’s Shirt.” Japanese Houseboy. 8.15: Rudolph’s Novelty Sextette. 8.30: Alfred Walmsley (tenor). 8.40: Talk: The Bishop of Wellington. 9.0: Weather. Station notices. A programme featuring the Comedy Harmonists. 9.5: Recordings: Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. 9.25: Half an hour with the world-famous Comedy Harmonists (rebroadcast by station IYA Auckland). 9.55: Recordings: Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. Alternative Station 2YC (840 Kilocycles)— 5.0: Light music. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: Afterdinner music. 8.0: Chamber music hour. 9.0: "Feminine Fancies,” Introducing Christian names of the fair sex. 10.0: Light recitals. 10.30: Close down. 3YA CHRISTCHURCH (720 Kilocycles) 7.0: Breakfast session 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Devotional service. 10.15: Recordings. 11.0: Time signal. Talk, under the auspices of the Christchurch Branch of the National Council of Women: Miss M. G. Havelaar, “Christmas Legend.” 11.15: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch music.

2.0: Recordings. 2.30: Talk, prepared by the Association for Country Education. 3.0: Classical music. 4.0: Time signals. Frost and weather forecast. Light music. 4.30: Sports results. 5.0: Children’s hour, conducted by Rainbow Man and The Imp. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: Official news and British Official Wireless news (rebroadcast from 2YA). 7.10: News and reports. 7.30: Time signals. 8.0: Chimes. Programme, featuring Barbara Lane (soprano), and Cuthbert Matthews (baritone). Recording: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. 8.10: Cuthbert Matthews (baritone). 8.25: Nancy Estall, L.R.S.M., (’cello recital), with harp accompaniment by H. G. Giaysher. 8.39: Barbara Lane (soprano). 8.54: Recordings: The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Talk: Mr Leicester Webb. 920: Dance music. 11.0: Close down.

Alternative Station 3YL (1200 Kilocycles)— 5.0: Recordings. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: Afterdinner music. 8.0: Musical comedy. 8.20: Piano time. 8.40: Olive Groves (soprano). 8.46: Minuet. 8.50: “The Case of the Geneva Mystery.” Inspector Scott. 9.20: Albert Sandier Orchestra. 10.0: "Merry Moments.” 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: Weather forecast.

2.0: Recordings. 3.30: Sports results. Classical music. 4.0: Weather and frost forecast. 4.30: Light music. 4.45: Sports results. 5.0: Children's hour, conducted by Big Brother Bill.

6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: Official news and British Official Wireless news (rebroadcast from 2YA). 7.10 (approx.): News and reports. 7.30: Gardening talk. 8.0: Chimes. A concert programme, introducing at 9.5 Sascha Berliner’s Continental Ensemble. Recordings, the 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestra. 8.10: Heinrich ’ Schlusnus (baritone). 8.16: Guilhermlna Suggia (’cello), 8.40: A talk by Dr E. N. Merrington. 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: A studio presentation by Sascha Berliner’s Continental Ensemble. 9.35: Masterpieces of Music, with thematic illustrations and comments by Dr T. Vernor Griffiths, Superintendent of Music at King Edward Technical College. 10.10: Music, mirth and melody. 11.10: Close down.

Alternative Station 4YO (1140 Kilocycles)— 5.0: Recordings. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: Afterdinner music. 8.0: “On the Avenue.” 8.8: "The Platinum Blonde in Paris.” 8.20: "Swing is in the Air.” 8.23: Christmas Eve —Christmas Day. 8.30: Sydney Lipton’s Grosvenor House Band. 8.40: "Digging H’oi’les” (sketch). 8.46: "Over She Goes” selection. 8.52: "Songs With the Songsters.” 9.0: Inspector Scott, "The Case of the Mysterious Waiter.” 9.40: Carroll Gibbons’s Boy Friends. 9.43: Paul Romby (saxophone). 9.46: "At a Christmas Party” (sketch). 9.52: "Hello, Blackpool I" Medley. 10.0: Light recitals. 10.30: Close down.

BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION G.M.T.— 8.15 a.m. Big Ben. The 8.8. C. Theatre Orchestra, with Peter Dawson (bass-bari-tone). 8.55 a.m. "Christmas is Coming.” An impression of London preparing for the holiday season. 9.25 am. Musical interlude. 9.35 a.m. The news and announcements. 9.55 a.m. The Chamber Music of Schubert—3. 10.25 a.m. Close down.