RADIO

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20477, 1 December 1934, Page 20

RADIO

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Keep clear of tlie popular fallacy that you need all sorts of fancy earth connections to get real long distance reception. If you have a piece of pipe driven say three feet into the ground with a piece of heavy insulated copper wire soldered, to it and the other end of the wire firmly held in the earth terminal of your set you have a ground connection that is sufficient for ordinary For the first time in the history of the world, far-flung lands have been able to literally take part in a Royal wedding ceremony. The broadcast of the wedding of the popular Duke of Kent -and his equally popular bride is but another achievement of the mighty science of radio. To think that we in Xew Zealand actually heard the ceremony that thrilled the Empire is ficient proof that radio. still in its infancy, will have still more wonderful marvels in store for us. Still more people are being attracted to all-wave radio. Qui,te a number ot buyers have decided that the all-wave sets offer more novelty and utility. Nevertheless, there is still a class of buver that insists on the straightout broadcast set. At the same time, there is no denying the fact that the set equipped wih an all-wavd switch i s decidedly useful, especially when there are long distance flights and affairs of international importance. WEEK-END PROGRAMMES. »> TOR SATURDAY. 2YA, Wellington (526m.—570k.). 8T0: Relay from the Wellington Town Hall of the first hour of Grand Scots' Concert. Wellington’s leading artists, including Caledonian Pipe Band, Circassian Choir, Rav Trewern, Mrs Hill (Auckland), James Caldwell. Mrs Wilfred Andrews, A. M’Kay, Miss Zillnh Castle. Accompaniments by Madame Evelyn de Maunv. 9.0: Weather. 9.2: Dance programme. 10.0: Sporting summary. 10.10: Dance programme. 11.10: Close. 3YA, Cliristcliurcli (416 m. —720 k.). 8.0: Orchestra, “Inauguration.” “ T.e Rose Noire.” 8.13 :* Priolet, of the Empire, Paris, with M. Powssard, “Ma Petite Marie.” Schutt and Cornell, "Canadian Capers.” 8.19: Stokes Banjo Band, “ T,if« Guards March,” “Cupid’s Realm,” “ Spic and Span.'' 8.30: Stan Lawson will entertain with a little nonsense 8.43: Marcel Palotti, “The Haunted Organ.” 8.48: Orchestra, “Pas des Fleurs." “ Guitarre,” “Arabian Festival” 9.0: Wearfier. 9.2: Orchestra, “The Spring Maid.” 9.10: “Final Arrangements”—a further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and bis employer. 9.25: Stokes Banjo Band, “ Rita!” “ Selection from * The Runaway Girl.’” " .Yaw Frolic March.” 9.35: Orchestra, “In the Spinning Hut,” “Czardas—Tika.” 9.47: Two interpretations of “ I Don’t Want to Go to Bed.” English, by Stanley Lupino and Elsie Carlisle: French, by Bill and Jim. 9.35: Orchestra. “ Cachuca," “Gipsy Camp.” 10.3: Sports summary. 10.13: Dance music. 11.10: Close. rOR SUNDAY. 2YA, Wellington (526 m 9.0 a.m.: Recordings. 11.*0: Salvation Armv Citadel, Vivian Street (preacher. Captain W. J. Thompson). 12.15: Close. 1.0: Dinner music. 2.0: Recordings. 3.30: Fritz Kreisler and the-State Opera Orchestra, Berlin, ” Concerto in E Minor for Violin and Orchestra.” 4.30: Close. 6.0: Children. 7.0: Congregational Church, Cambridge Terrace (preacher, Rev Harry Johnson). 8.15 p.m.: Recordings. 8.30: 2YA Concert Orchestra, “ Oberon.” 8.37: “ Concerto for Pianoforte and Orchestra No. 23, in A Major,” Gordon Bryan.

t 9.0: Weather. 9.2: Orchestra, “Moment i Music-ale.” 9.7: Rudolf Hindemith, i “Concerto in D Major.” 9.23: Elena i Gerhardt, “ The Departure,” “ Slumber 1 Song.” 9.31: Orchestra, “Symphony - No. 1 in C Major.” 10.0: Close. 1 3YA, Christchurch (416 m 1 9.0 a.m.: Recordings. 11.0: St Savi- • our’s Anglican Church, Sydenham (preacher. Rev E. C. W. Powell). 12.15: Close. - 1.0 p.m.: Dinner music. 2.0: Record - : ings. 2.45: Professor B. Tfor Evans, I “Twentieth Century Poetry.” 3.0: - Leopold Godowsky, " Sonata in B Flat ; Minor.” Recordings. 4.30: Close. 5.30: ; Children. 6.15: Recordings. ’ 7.0: Church of Christ, Moorhouse Avenue (preacher. Pastor Stuart Stevens). 5.15: Recordings. 8.30: " Tann- ; hauser.” 10.0: Close. TOR MONDAY. 2YA, Wellington (526 m. —570 k.). 7.0 to 8.30: Breakfast session. 10.0: \ Recordings.. 10.30: Devotional. 11.30: “Helpful Advice for the Home.” 12.0: ! Lunch music. , 2.0 p.m.: Classical hour. 3.0: Sports results; Home Science. 3.15: Light music. 3.30: Weather forecast for 1 farmers and frost forecast for South ; Island fruitgrowers. 4.0: Sports results. 4.30: Weather and frost forecasts.. 5.0: : Children. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.40: “Books, Grave and Gay.” 8.0 p.m.: Ferd.v Kauffman and his Orchestra, “ Doll and Showman,” “ The Merry Teddy.” B.S: Francis Russell, Parry Jones, Raymond Newell and I Harry Dearth, “Three for Jack,” “Four Jolly Sailormen.” 8.14: Albert Sandler and his Orchestra,, “ A Little Love, a Little Kiss,” “Because.” 8.20: Ruth Mann, “Slave Song,” “Like to the Damask Rose,” “Caro Mio Ben.” 8.30: Beatrice Harrison, “ The Garden of ! Sleep.” 8.33: Paul Robeson. “Doan You Cry Ma Honey,” “Piccaninny Slumber • Song.” 8.40: Rev Dr Moffatt, “First ' and Fresh.” 9.0: Weather. 9.2: Technical College Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs. ' Orchestra, “March Tannhauser." 9.6: 1 Girls’ Choir, “Green Lanes and Grey : Towns,” “ O For the Wings of a Dove.” 9.11: Boys’ Choir, “Blue Danube,” “Pilgrim’s Chorus—Tannhauser.” 9.17: Mol lie M’Kenzie, “Turn Y.e to Me.” 9.20: Orchestra, “ Minffet from Military Symphony,” “Londonderry Air.” 9.27: Girls’ Choir, “Where’er You Walk,” “Glow-worm.” 9.32: Boys’ Choir, “ Eriskay Love Lilt,” “ Carry Me Back to Old Virgiriny.” 9.37: Girls’ Choir, ; “ Akoalco O Te Rangi,” “ Come tq the Manger.” 9.41: Boys’ Choir, “Farewell.” 9.44: Girls’ Choir, “Chinese Mandarin,” “Twilight Shadows.” 9.48: , Boys’ Choir. “ Gipsy Chorus,” “ Anvilr | Chorus.” 9.55: Orchestra, “ March— Garde de Corps.” 10.0: Dance music. 11.0: Close. 3YA, Christchurch (416m.—720k.). 7.0: Breakfast session. 8,30: Close. 10.0:' Devotional. 10.15: Recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0 p.m.: Home Science. 3.0: Classical hour. 4.0: Light music. 4.30: Weather forecast for farmers and frost forecast for South Island fruitgrowers. 5.0: Children. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.15:.“ Sunbathing.” 7.35: W.E.A. -session, Mr A. L. M. Perry, M.A.. Dip. Ed., “What Life Could Hold For Us.” 8.0 p.m.: Christchurch Municipal Band, “Challenge” March, “ Tancredi.” 8.14: Malcolm M’Eachern, “Devonshire Cream and Cider,” *“ Up From Somerset.” 5.20: Band, “ Bells of Ouseley,” “Ocean Star.” 8.30: Jack Hulbert, “ My Hat’s on the Side of My Head,” “ 1 Want to Ring Bells.” 8.36: Band, “Elfin Revel.” 8.44: Browning Mummery, “ Marie Louise,” “ Josephine.” 8.50: Band, "Sweep,” “Dreams Are on Parade.” 9.0: Weather. 9.3: Reserved. 9.20: Isolde Menges and Harold Samuel, “Sonata in A Major.” 9.40: Miss Belle Henaut, “ Prolog,” “ Intermezzo,” "Dedication,” “The - Almond Tree.” 9.52: Pro Arte Quartet, " Quartet in F Major, Op. 3, No. 5.” 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 10.30: Dance music. 11.0: Close.