BROADCASTING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 256, 28 October 1937, Page 12

BROADCASTING

TO-DAY’S PROGRAMMES Following are the programmes of Australian and New Zealand stations scheduled for to-day. New Zealand Summer Time is given in each instance: — IYA, AUCKLAND. (630 Kilocycles). 7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Devotional service. 10.15: Selected recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Selected recordings. 3.15: Sporte results. 3.30: Talk. 3.45: Light musical programme. 4.0: Special weather report for farmers. 4.30: Sports results. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Talk: Professor A. B. Fitt, “How the Mind Works.” 7.45: Talk: Mrs. B. F. G. Richards* “Yesterday and To-day in Literature.” S.O: Concert programme. A continuity programme, “Famous Rivers: The Nile.” 9.0: Weather. Station noticee. 9.5: A recorded talk by Mr. Toni L. Mills, “A Famous Man I Knew.” 9.25: Grand Massed Brass Bands. 9.31 : Browning Mummery, Australian tenor. 9.37: Massed Bands of the Champions. 9.47 : Browning Mummery. Australian tenor. 9.53: Grand Massed Bands. 10.0: An hour with Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra. 11.0: Close down. 2YA. WELLINGTON. (570 Kilocycles). 7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Clone down. 10.0: Selected recordings. 10.30: Time signals. Devotional service. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Classical hour. 3.0: Sports results. 3.30: Time signals. Special weather forecast for farmers. 4.0: Sports results. 5.0; Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.30: Time signals. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Time signals. “Who’s Who and What's What?” A ramble in the news by “Coranto.” 7.40: Talk: Mr. E. Philpott-Crowther. 8.0: Chimes. Concert programme. “The Wheel of Fortune,” the Japanese houseboy. 8.14: Dan Foley, Irish tenor. 8.24: Light Symphony Orchestra. 8.27: Viola Morris and Victoria Anderson, English singers, in solos and ducts. 8.45: Talk: Mr. John Gill. “The Wreck of the Wairarapa.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: A concert by the Schola Cantorum, assisted by the 2YA Concert Orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. 2YC. WELLINGTON (840 k.c.). 5.0: Light music. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Chamber music hour. 9.0: “Rhythm, Melody and Humour.” 10.0: In order of appearance. 10.30: Close down. 3YA, CHRISTCHURCH. (720 Kilocycles). 7.0: Breakfast session, 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Devotional service. 10.15: Selected recordings. 10.30: Time signals. 10.32: Selected recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 2.0: Selected recordings. 3.0: Classical music. 3.30: Time signals. 4.0: Frost and special weather forecast and light musical programme. 4.30: Sports results. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Time signals. 7.35: Talk, under the auspices of Canterbury Agricultural College: Dr. M. C. Franklin. 8.0: Chimes. Final community sing. 1937 season. 10.30: (approx.): Dance music. 11.0: Close down. 4YA. DUNEDIN. (790 Kilocycles). 7.0: Breakfast session. 9.0: Close down. 10.0: Selected recordings. 10.15: Devotional service. 10.30: Selected recordings. 12.0: Lunch music. 1.0: District weather forecast. 2.0: Selected recordings. 3.30: Sports results. Classical music. 4.0: Weather forecast. 4.30: Light musical programme. 4.45 Sports results. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 7.30: Gardening talk. 8.0: Chimes. A concert by the Halle Orchestra. The Orchestra. 8.26: Germaine Corncy, soprano. 8.32: The Orchestra. 8.40: Recorded talk, Mrs. H. Vail, “Off the Beaten Track in South America.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: The Orchestra. 9.9: Sir George Henschel, baritone. 9.20: "Masterpieces of Music.” 10.0 (approx.): Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. AUSTRALIAN STATIONS (N.Z. Summer Time given in each instance). 2FC. SYDNEY. (610 Kilocycles). 10.0 p.m.: A recital by Charles Benson, tenor, and John Hannell, pianist. 10.25: The Sydney Instrumental Trio, in association with Anne Mills (mezzo). 11.15: Half an hour of non-stop variety. SHORT WAVE BROADCASTS GSB DAVENTRY (31.55 m. 7.0 p.m.: Big Ben. “Beneath the Green Willow.” 7.30: “Food for Thought.” Three short talks on matters of topical interest. 7.50: Dance music. 8.5: “The Cesarewitch Stakes.” A commentary on the race from Newmarket Racecourse. 8.20: The news and announcements. 8.40: Mozart's chamber music. 9.15: Close down. PC’J., HOLLAND. PCJ, Hilversum, Holland, has been redesigned, and is now the highest-powered short* wave etation in the world, and transmits a special programme to New Zealand every Tuesday, at 9.30 p.m. to 11 p.m., N.Z. Summer time, on 19.17 metres.