OVER THE WIRELESS.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1938, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS.

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. 2YA Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.30: Time signals. 8.0: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, “Pleasure Cruise in Osaka.” 8.8: Nelson Eddy (baritone), “The Rosary”; “Oh, Promise Me.” 8.14: Donald Thorne (organ), “The Donkey’s Serenade”; “Moon at Sea.” 8.20: Vera Lynn (light vocal), “That Old Feeling”; “Goodnight to You.” 8.26: Frank Carle (piano), “You Can’t Have Everything”; “Broadway Melody of 1938.” 8.32: Sam Costa .(vocal), at piano, “So Rare.” 8.35: Otto Kermbach Dance Orchestra, “Berliner Luft” March. 8.40: Talk, Mrs H. E. Vaii; “Off the beaten Track in South America.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: “Eb and Zeb.” 9.15: Massed Bands of Aidershot and Eastern Commands at Coronation Tattoo; Aidershot, 1937, “The March of the King’s Men.” Black Diamonds Band, “The Merry Wives of Windsor” Selection. 9.25: Eunice H. Compton (contralto), “In An Old-Fashioned Town”; “Here in the Quiet Hills.” 9.32: Creswell Colliery, Wood Green Excelsior, Edmonton Silver and Camberwell Silver Bands, “Military Church Parade.” Foden’s Motor Works Band, “11 Bacio”; “The Mill in the Dale.” 9.44: Eunice H. Compton (contralto), “Three Fishers”; “Down Vauxhall Way.” 9.50: Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, “The Yeoman of the Guard” Selection. Massed Bands of Aidershot and Eastern Commands at Aidershot, 1937, “Royal Cavalcade” Coronation March. 10.1: Dance programme. 11.1: Close down.

2YC Wellington. 840 k.c.

5.0: Light music, 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: “Music of the Cradle.” 8.30: Songs of Herman Lohr. 9.0: Recital programme, featuring Wilhelm Backhaus (pianist), Fritz Kreisler (violinist), Marta Eggerth (soprano), and Richard Tauber (tenor), singing German folk songs. 10.0: “In Lighter Vein.” 10.30: Close down.

2 YD, Weiiington. 990 k.c. 7.0: Swing is in the Air. 7.35: Personal Column—drama from the agony column of a newspaper. 7.48: The Singing Hill-Billies. 8.3: Popular recordings. 8.25: Hawaiki calling. 8.40: Trailer. 8.45: The wayfarer in “Further Wanderings with the West Wind.” 9.15: Supper dance. 9.48: Another Memory Programme from the Easy Chair. 10.0: Close down.

IYA Auckland 650 k.c.

5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.30: Sports talk, Gordon Hutter. 8.0: Readings by Mr D’Arcy Crseewell, from Parkman’s “Conspiracy of Pontiac” (continued), and from “Huckleberry Finn” (continued) (Mark Twain), with music from Elgar’s Piano Quintet in A Minor. 8.42: Boston Promenade Orchestra, “Divertissement”; introduction and Nocturne; Cortege; Valse; Parade and Finale. 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Recital by William Crewes, baritone. 9.20: Lionel Harris (piano), Preludes in C and F; Nocturne in D Flat; Etudes in C, A Flat, and C Minor. 9.34: Lotte Lehmann (soprano), “The For-tune-Teller”; “Voices of the Wood.” 9.40: London Symphony Orchestra, “Death and Transfiguration” Tone Poem. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.

3YA Christchurch. 720 k.c.

5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.30: Time signals. 7.3§: Talk. 8.0: 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adrian Boult, “Der Freischutz” Overture. 8.10: Mrs Hamilton Mercer (mezzo-contralto recital), “Ombra Mai Fu”; “Hindu Song”; “Lament of Isis”; “Caro Mio Ben.” 8.23: Percy Grainger (pianoforte), “Shepherd’s Hey”; “Cradle Song”; “Country Gardens”; “Molly on the Shore.” 8.34: Peter Dawson (bass-baritone recital), “Far Across the Desert Sands”; “Beloved in Your Absence”; “If In The Great Bazaars”; “Where the Abana Flows”; “Allah Be With Us”; “How Many a Lonely Caravan.” 8.46: Arnold Foldesy (’cello recital), “Spinner’s Song,” Op. 55; “Village Song,” Op. 62; “Meditation”; Serenade, Op. 54. 8.56: Erks Male Chorus, “The Gondolier.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Talk, Mr Leon Gotz, “Leaves From a Planter’s Notebook” (4). 9.23: 3YA Orchestra, “Raymond” Overture. 9.31: Mina Gale (soprano), “Come and Find the Quiet Places”; “The Garden Where My Soul Was Born”; “At the Shrine of Aphrodite”; “The White Bird.” 9.41: 3YA Orchestra, “Serenade by the Gondolier”; “A Moorland Idyll.” 9.51: John McCormack (tenor), “Friend o’ Mine”; “Poor Man’s Garden.” 9.57: 3YA Orchestra, “Play to the Waves.” 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down.

4YA Dunedin 790 k.c.

5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 8.0: New Mayfair Orchestra, “Sons o’ Guns” Selection. 8.10: Humorous serial feature “Dad and Dave from Snake Gully.” 8.22: Jack Wilson (piano), “Musical Comedy Memories." 8.25: Japanese houseboy. 8.40: Talk by Mrs Geddes, M.A., F.R.A.S., “The Sun and its Spots.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Chamber music concert, Suite, Op. 71 for Two Violins and Piano. 9.20: Eva Liebenberg (contralto), "The Almighty”; “Creation’s Hymn.” 9.28: Ethel Wallace (violin), and Muriel Ironside (piano), Sonata in D Minor, Op. 121. 10.0: Dance music. 11.0: Close down.