Australian Short Wave

Broadcast April 10 to May 7.

AUSTRALIAN National Short Wave

Programme, broadcast from Mel

bourne, Victoria, on 31.34 metres for

listeners in the Western Pacific. Call

sign: VLR.

P.M. Daily Weekdays

12.35 Recorded Music. 1,00 Time Signal, and News Bulletin. 1.05 Interstate Weather. 1.15 Music. 3.00 (Monday, Tuesday, and Friday) Broad cast to Schools. 3.20 (Tuesday and Friday) Classic Music. 5.00 Close (Monday and Wednesday, 5.15). 6.30 Comment by "The Watchman.” 6.45 (Tuesday excluded) Sporting News. 7.00 (Saturday excluded) News, Markets, and Weather for North Australia. 7.20 Overseas News Service. 7.30 Queensland and North Australian News. 7.40 (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Talk. 7.40 (Tuesday and Thursday) News in French for New Caledonia and New Hebrides. 8.50 (Usually) Musical Programme. 10.30 Australasian News Service. 10.50 Musical Programme. 11.30 Close.

P.M. Every Saturday

12.45 Music. 1.15 —5.15 Description of current sporting and athletic events, interspersed with music. 6.30 Markets Summary. 7.10 New Zealand Mail Bag. 7.35 Sporting Highlights of the Week. 10.50 Australasian Mail Bag. 11.00 Dance Music. 12.00 Close.

P.M. Every Sunday

6.00 Musical Programme by various State Orchestras. 6.30 Talk on International Affairs. 6.50 News Bulletin. 7.00 “Alice in Orchestralia”. 7.30 Recordings of Overseas Artists. 8.30 Story. 10.15 News. 10.30 Close. (Times given are Australian Eastern Stand ard —10 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.)

April 10 To May 7.

April 10 (Sun.) —8.45 p.m. Organ Recital by Arnold Coleman, with Strella Wilson, Soprano; 9.15 Play; 10.20 Epilogue.

Apr. 11 (Mon.) —1.30 p.m. V.T. & R.A. Trots at Ascot; 7.40 Talk—“ Nation Building in In dia”; 8 Serial; 8.30 Music Hall Programme; 9 Topical Revue; 9.30 Instrumental Ensemble.

Apr. 12 (Tues.)—B p.m. Brass Band Recital; 8.30 Concert; 9.20 Comedy Sketch; 9.40 Male Quartet.

Apr. 13 (Wed.) —1.30 p.m. Geelong Races; 7.40 Talk—“ Europeans in the Tropics”, by Dr. H.

Tan Hogbin; 8 Choral Presentation; 9.45 Travel Letter; 10 Phyllis McDonald (violinist).

Apr. 14 (Thurs.) —8 p.m. “The Play’s the Thing”; 9 Folk Songs; 9.15 Silver Sextet; 10 Talk on World Affairs.

Apr. 15 (Fri.) —Between 12.35 p.m. and 10.30 p.m. a special Good Friday programme of music and appropriate talks will be relayed.

Apr. 16 (Sat.) —1.30 p.m. Williamstown Races; 8 Symphony Hour; 9 Alexander Kipnis (Rus sian Bass); 10 Light Orchestral Music.

Apr. 17 (Sun.) —8.45 p.m. Tossy Spivakovsky (Violinist); 9 Vocalist; 9.20 “Soft Lights and Sweet Music”.

Apr. 18 (Mon.) —1.30 p.m. Williamstown and On kapringa Races; 8 Serial; 8.30 “Radio Road house”; 8.50 Travel Letter; 9 Topical Revue; 9.30 Instrumental Ensemble.

Apr. 19 (Tues.) —1.30 p.m. Epsom Races; 8.10 Musical Comedy (“Goodnight Vienna”); 9.15 Talk; 9.30 Violin Recital; 945 Everyman’s Mu-

Apr. 20 (Wed.). —2 p.m. Mornington Races; 7.40 Talk —“Alfred Deakin” by Prof. Murdoch; 8 “Mirth and Melody”: 8.35 Comedy Sketch; 9 National Military Band; 9.30 Ballad Recital.

Apr. 21 (Thurs.) —8 p.m. “The Play’s the Thing”; 9.15 Gypsy Music; 9.45 “Chorus Gen tlemen, Please’’; 10 Talk on World Affairs.

Apr. 22 (Fri.) —7.40 p.m. Talk—“ Power of Suggestion” by Mr. W. M. Bell; 9 Brass Band Music; 9.30 Nightlarks Male Quartet; 9.45 Light Orchestra.

Apr. 23 (Sat.) —1.30 p.m. Mentone Races; 8 Alexander Kipnis (Bass): Jascha and Tossy Spivakovsky (Piano and Violin); 9.45 Lieder Re cital; 10 Instrumental Ensemble.

Apr. 24 (Sun.) —8.45 p.m. New Note Octet (Leader, Albert Fischer); 9.15 Radio Presenta tion of Recent Film.

Apr. 25 (Mon.) —1.30 p.m. Description of Anzac Day March; 8 Readings from “Gallipoli” (John Masefield); 9 Play—“ The Man With the Don key”; 9.30 A.B.C. (Sydney) Symphony Orches tra interspersed with talk by Rt. Hon, W. M.

Hughes.

Apr. 26 (Tues.) —1.30 p.m. Kyneton Races; 8.10 Alexander Kipnis (Bass); 9.15 Everyman’s Mu sic; 10.50 Dance Music.

Apr. 27 (Wed.) —1.30 p.m. Moonee Valley and Hamilton Races; 8 “As You Like It”; 8.40 “Em ma and ’Erbert”; 9 National Military Band; 9.30 Beatrice Tange (Pianist).

Apr. 28 (Thurs.) —1.30 p.m. Hamilton Races; 8 Play—“ Farewell to the Boss”; 9 Eileen Boyd (Contralto); 9.15 Silver Sextet; 10 Talk on World Affairs.

Apr. 29 (Fri.). —7.40 p.m. Talk —-“Everyday Er rors in Reasoning” by Mr. W. M. Bell; 8 Jim Davidson’s Dance Band; 9.45 Vocal Recital; 10.10 Organ Recital.

Apr. 30 (Sat.)—l.3o p.m. V.T. & R.A. Races at Ascot; 8 Symphony Hour; 9.10 Alexander Kipnis (Bass); 10 Everyman’s Music.

May 1 (Sun.) —8.30 p.m. Talk on Interna tional Affairs by Dr. G. L. Wood; 9 Organ Recital: 9.30 “Around the Organ with Sankey”.

May 2 (Mon.)—B p.m. Serial; 8.30 “At the Sign of the Maison Rouge”: 9 Topical Revue; 9.50 Travel Letter; 10.50 Military Band.

May 3 (Tues.) —1.30 p.m. Warrnambool Races; 8 Alexander Kipnis, Famous Russian Bass; 9 Everyman’s Music; 9.45 Ballad Recital.

May 4 (Wed.) —1.30 p.m. Warrnambool Races; 8 “As You Like It”; 8.40 Emma and ’Erbert; 9 National Military Band; 9.30 Marjorie Hesse (Violin) and Lorna McKean (Piano).

May 5 (Thurs.) —1.30 p.m. Warrnambool Races: 8 “The Play’s the Thing’’; 9 John Mor ley Quartette: 10.15 Dance Music.

May 6 (Fri.)—7.4o p.m. “The Art of Straight Thinking”—A Talk by Mr. W. M. Bell; 8.30 Organ Recital; 8.45 Ballad Recital; 9 Orches

tral Hour; 10 Dance Music from the Studio.

May 7 (Sat.) —1.30 p.m. Moonee Valley Races; 8 George Szell, conducting A.B.C. (Melbourne) Symphony Orchestra; 9 Sketch; 9.20 Jascha and Tossy Spivakovsky, Piano and Violin.