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TODAY’S PROGRAMMES 4YZ INVERCARGILL (680 Kilocycles) 7.0: Breakfast session—rebroadcast from 4YA. 9.0: Close down. 11.0: Programme of recordings—rebroad’ cast from 4YA. 12.0: Chimes. Luncheon session. 2.0: Close down. 5.0: Chimes. Tea Dance. 5.30: Children’s session—"Tanglewood Tales,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 5.45: Light music. 6.15: "Rhythm all the Time”—rhythm, melody and humour by the Three Rhythm Boys. 6.30: New recordings. 6.45: Wilkie Collins’s famous thriller "The Woman in White.” 7.0: Chimes. After-dinner music. 8.0: Sports talk by Mr N. J. Dorman: "Harriers.” 8.15: Violin Sonata in D (Handel). Quartet in F Major (Mozart). 8.45: A further episode in "The Life of Cleopatra.” 9.0: Studio recital by Mr Hartley Joel (flute). 9.12: Listen to the Band. 9.30: Rhythm Time. 10.0: Close down. IYA AUCKLAND (650 Kilocycles) 7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Devotional service. 10.15: Recordings. 11.0: Talk to women by Margaret. 11.10: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Recordings. 2.30: Classical hour. 3.15: Sports results. 3.30: Talk, prepared by the A.C.E.: "Flower and Vase.” 3.45: Light musical programme. 4.0: Weather repott for fanners. 4.30: Sports results. 5.0: Children's session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: Government and overseas news (from 2YA). 7.10 (approx): News and reports. 7.30: Farmers’ session: Talk to farmers, “Contagious Ophthalmia in Sheep.” 7.40: Talk: “Swede Crops in the King Country,” Mr K. M. Montgomery, Fields Instructor. Te Kuiti. 8.0: "Tales of the Silver Greyhound: His Last Trip” (episode 3). 8.29: A radio play: “Hester Siding”—a story of modern pioneers in the Australian wastelands. 8.45: "John Halifax—Gentleman”—a dramatization of the famous novel by Mrs Craik, presented by George Edwards and Company (episode 28). 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Ring commentary on professional wrestling match at the Auckland Town Hall. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. Alternative Station IYX (880 kilocycles)— 5.0: Light musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Light orchestral music and ballads. 9 0: “Richelieu —Cardinal or King?” 9.25: Musical comedy and light opera. 9.52: "Almost a Film Actor”—humorous sketch, presented by Horace Kennedy, assisted by Lodge Percy and Frank Elton. 10.0: Light recitals, featuring Rudy Starita (xylophone). 10.30; Close down. . Alternative Station IZM (1250 kilocycles)— 5.0: Light orchestral selections. 5.30: Light popular selections. 6.0: Miscellaneous. 6.45: News: announcements. 7.0: Orchestral. 7.20: Horticultural Society's Home Garden talk. 7.45: "Loma Doone.” 8.0: Music lovers’ session. 8.30: Song memories. 9.0: Gilbert and Sullivan selections. 9.30: Past and present hits. 10.0: Close down. 2YA WELLINGTON (570 Kilocycles) 6.50: Weather report for aviators. 7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Weather report for aviators. 10.10: Devo- - tional service. 10.25: Recording. 10.28: Time signals. 10.45: Talk to women by Margaret. 12.0: Lunch music. 1.0: Weather report for aviators. 2.0: Classical hour. 3.0: Talk prepared by the A.C.E.: "Flower and Vase.” Sports results. 3.28: Time signals. 3.30: Weather report for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago. 4.0: Sports results. 5.0: Children's session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: Government ana overseas news. 7.10 (approx): News and reports. 7.28: Time signals. 7.30: Winter course talk: "Science for Everyman; Everyman Meets a Chemist” (No. 5) —a talk with Mr F. W. Saxton, M.Sc.
8.0: Chimes. Eileen Joyce (piano). 8.10: Lotte Lehmann (soprano). 8.13: Pro Arte Quartet. 8.29: John McCormack (tenor). 8.33: Zillah Castle (violin) and Ronald Castle (virginal). 8.45: Talk: “Entertaining Behind Barbed Wire.” 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Ringside description of the wrestling match at the Town Hall. 10.0 (approx): "Blue Barron Entertains.” 10.28: Time signals. 11.0: Close down. Alternative Station 2YC (840 kilocycles)— 5.0: Light musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Around the bandstand. 9.0: Musical comedy gems. 10.0: In lighter vein. 10.30: Close/down. 3YA CHRISTCHURCH (720 Kilocycles) 7.0: Breakfast session. S.O: Close down.’ 10 0- Recordings. 10.30: Devotional service. 10.45: Recordings. 11.0: Talk to women by Margaret. 11.10: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. . . 2.0: Recordings. 2.30: Talk, prepared by the A.C.E.: "Flower and Vases." 3.0: Classical music. 4.0: Frost and weather forecast. Light musical programme. 4.30: Sports results. 5.0: Children's hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: Government and overseas news (from 2YA). 7.10: News and reports. 7.29: Playlet: “Army Session.” 7.35: Talk by Garden Expert: “Winter Spraying Programme.” ... 8.0: Chimes. Woolston Brass band with miscellaneous interludes. 9.0: Weather forecast and station notices. 9.5: Reserved. 9.20: Prisca quartet. 9.42: Lotte Lehmann (soprano). 9.45: Magda Tagliafero (piano) and Denise Soriano (violin). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. Alternative Station 3YL .1200 kilocycles)— 5.0: Recordings. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Music from the movies. 8.10: ’“Play Up and Play the Game. ’ 814: “When Day is Done.” 8.18: Renee Houston and Pat Alierne entertain. 8.25: Two love sonnets. 8.30: "Rosalie and her Romances.” 9.0: The Hawaiian serenaders. 9.12: Paul Robeson sings plantation songs. 9.20: Dino Jonesco plays the cymbalon. 9.23: The Vienna Salon Orchestra. 9.30: “The Crimson Trail.” a tale of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. 9.44: Variety. 10.0: Light music. 10.30: Close down. 4YA DUNEDIN (790 Kilocycles) 6.50: Weather report for aviators. 7.0: Chimes. Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Weather report "or aviators. Recordings 10 15: Devotional session. 10.50.' Talk to women by Margaret. 12.0: Lunch music. 1.0: Weather report for aviators Weather report. 2.0: Recordings. 3.30: Sports results. Classical music. 4.0: Weather and frost forecast. 4.30: Light musical programme. 4.45: Sports results. 5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Government and overseas news (from 2YA). .7.10: News and reports. 7.30: Talk by an officer of the Department of Agriculture: “Contagious Ecthymas.” 8.0: Chimes. The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Introduction and Allegro for Strings. 8.18: Stewart Wilson (tenor). 8.36: Cyril Smith (piano), Polonaise (Bliss). 8.40: Talk by Mr J. T. Paul "World Affairs.” 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Ringside commentary on professional boxing match: Mark Candy (Wanganui) v. Stan Jenkin (Dunedin). 10.0 (approx.): Dance programme by Dick Colvin and his Music. 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. 8.15: "Further Adventures of the Three Musketeers" (chapter 12) —a dramatization of Alexandre Dumas’s famous novel "Twenty Years After.” 8 36: Eddie Cantor carrolling. 8.42: Louis Levy and his Orchestra present a selection from “Everybody Sing.” 8.48: Non-stop variety by the Variety Stars. 90: Melodies from musical comedy and light opera. 10.0: Melody and humour. 10.30; Close down. BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION N.Z. Standard Time—--4.30 p.m.: Big Ben. “Aunt Jeannie” (part 2). Play by Aimee Stuart. 4.55: 8.8 C. Empire Orchestra. 5.45: “American Commentary." Talk by Raymond Gram Swing (from America). 6.0: The News. 6.15: "In Town Tonight.” 6.45: Sports news and market notes. Close down.
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Southland Times, Issue 23829, 29 May 1939, Page 12
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