WHATS ON THE AIR TO-DAY?

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 386, 18 March 1937, Page 8

WHATS ON THE AIR TO-DAY?

RADIO PROGRAMMES AT A GLANCE.

IYA AUCKLAND (650k.c., 461.3 m.) 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0; Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 8.0: Concert programme. “The Music Wranglers.” 9.7: Weather. Station notices. 9.12: Discussion, "Serving the Public: The Press Reporter.” 9.27: Band mnsic (recorded). Vocalist: Reg. Richards. Munn and Felton’s Work Band. 9.33: Reg. Richards (baritone). 9.39: The Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards. 9.45: Reg. Richards (baritone). 9.51: Bands of H.M. Coldstre: m and Welsh Guards. 10.0: An hour of popular dance tunee of 1935. 11.0: Close down. TO-MORROW. 7 0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 19.0: Devotional service. 10.15: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Selected recordings. 2.30: Classical hour. 3.15: Sports results. 3.30: Light musical programme. 4.0: Special weather report for farmers. 4.30: Sports results. IYX AUCKLAND. (.ISOk.c., 340.7 m.) 5.0: Light musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Light popular programme. 9.0: Chamber music hour. 10.0: Half an hour’s bright entertainment. .10.30: Close down. 2YA WELLINGTON (blOk.c., 526 m.) 5.0: Children's hour. 6.0: Dinner musie. ■7.0: Nev.’s and reports. 7.30: Time signals. 8.0: "The Easy Chair.” A memory programme of songs and melodies of days gone by. 8.14: "The Mine of Missin? Men” being a further incident In the lives of the Japanese houteboy and Ms employer.

8_28: Fifteen minutes of humour, featuring “Darby and Joan” in “Encyclopaedia.” 8.43: Talk: Mr M. S. Nestor, "contrast in I’ravel: Perils and Hardships of Wes.t Coast Pioneering.’’ 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Madame Margherita Zelaflda (soprano), with flute obligato by Signor A. P. Truda. 9.20: Dorothy Hanify (piano). 9.36: Great Western Railway, Swindon Staff Gleemeu. 9.46: Joseph Szigeti (violin). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. TO-MORROW. 7.0: Breakfast session. 7.5: “Keep Fit” session, conducted by Mr J. F. Hanna, Physical Director, Wellington Y.M.C.A. 7.20: Continuation of breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Selected recordings. 10.30: Devotional service. 11.0: Time signals. 11.30: Talk, “Public Health Subjects.” 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Classical hour. 3.0: Sports talk. Talk, prepared by the A.C.E., Home Science Tutorial Section of Otago University. 4.0: Time signals. Spoils results. 2YC WELLINGTON (840k.c„ 356.9 m.) 5.0: Light musical programme. 6.0: Qlqsjb down. 7.0: Atter-dinner music. 8.0: Chamber music hour. 9.0: “In Lighter Vein.” An •.our of variety entertainment. 10.0: Light recital programme. 10.30: Close down. 3YA CHRISTCHURCH (720k.c., 416.4m.j 5.0: Children's hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.20: Talk: “The New Zealand inter-University Tournament.” Mr Roy l(wyneham. 7.30: Time signals. 7.35: Talk, under the auspices of the Canterbury Agricultural College, Profesuor E. R. Hudson. (Director of C.A.C.), “Subterranean Clover.” 8.0: Columbia Dramatic Players, "The Village Blacksmith.” &8: John Tilley (humorous monologue), “The Company Promoter.” 8.16: Befliner Trio (instrumental). 8.22: /jngela Baddeley and Company, “The Safe”—A thriller. B.3Qj John Tilley (humorous monoUtaw

8.39: Berliner Trio. 8.46: Cicely Courtneidge and Com pany. 8.53: Berliner Trio. 9.0: Weather. Station notices 9.5: Talk: Mr Leicester Webb, “World Affairs.” 9.20: Dance miui«. 11.0: Close down. TO-MORROW. 7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 50 0: Devotions l service. 10.15: Recordings. 11.0: Time signals. 11.2: Talk, Mrs W. F. KentJohnston, “Everyday Meals.” 11.17: Selected recordings. Progress reports on cricket match, M.C.C. v. Canterbury and Otiago. 12.0: Lunch music 3.0: Classical music. 4.0: Time signals. 4.2: Frost and special weather forecast and light musical pro gramme. 4.30: Sports results. 2.0: Recordings. 3YL CHRISTCHURCH. (1200k.c., 250 m.) 5.0: Selected recordings. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Musical comedy programme. 9.20: 8.8. C. recorded programme, “The Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, 1936.”

10.0: “Comedian.” A programme of humour and melody. 10.30: Close down.

4YA DUNEDIN. (790k.c., 379.5 m.) 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Gardening talk. 8.0: London Philharmonic Orchestra. 8.26: Peter Dawson (baritone). 8.40: Reserved. 90: Weather. Station notices. 95: Fritz Kreisler (violinist), and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. 9.29: Gwen Frangcon-Davis TSoprano). 9.37: The Orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. TO-MORROW. 7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Recordings. 10.15: Devotional service. 10.30: Recordings. 10.45: Talk by Miss I. Finlay, “Cooking and Recipes.” 11.0: Selected recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0; Recordings. 3.15: Talk by the A.C.E. Home Science Tutorial Section. 3.30: Sports results. Classical music. 4.0: Weather report. 4.30: Light musical programme. 4.45: Sports results. 4YO DUNEDIN. (1140k.c„ 263.1 m.) 5.0: Selected recordings. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Variety and vaudeville programme. 10.0: Light musical recital. 10.30: Close down.

Australian Stations. 2BL SYDNEY. (740k.c., 405.4 m.) 9.20: National news bulletin. 9.30: Local news. 9.35: Weather and report session. 9.58: What’s on the air to-night’ 10.0: “Great Love Stories? 'in Music.” 10.50: Jim Davidson’s A.B.C. Dance Band. 11.30: Interlude (r). 11.35: “Swing’s the Thing” (r). 2FC SYDNEY. (610k.c., 491.8 m.) 9.40: Patricia Melton (young Australian pianist). 9.55: Interlude (r). 10.0: Excerpts from “Lily of Killarney.” 10.40: Recital by Lionel Lawson (violinist). 10.50: Current topics. 11.5: “The Lady of Belmont.” A eequel to Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice,” by st. John G. Irvine. 3LO MELBOURNE. (770k.c„ 389.6 m.) See 2FC, Sydney. 3AR MELBOURNE (580k.c., 516.9m.1 9.20: National news bulletin. i.3i: Viatirian tuwi bnUetiifl

9.35: Countryman’s session: Reports. 10.0: A recital by Vina Barnden (piano). « 10.20: Interlude (r). 10.25: “Up in the Saddle, Lads!” by the String Ensemble. 10.35: A 8.8. C. recording, “Monsieur Beauc-aire.”

EMPIRE SHORT-WAVE STATIONS.

7.0: Big Ben. Commentary from the Lincoln Racecourse. 7.22: “Hall Marks.” Performance by Henry Hall and the 8.8. C. Dance Orchestra. 8.0: Three short talks on matters of opical interest. 8.20: An organ recital by Maurice Vinden. 8.40: The news and announcements. L 45: Greenwich time Signal.