Crime Serials On The Radio
I All 1 educationists ana a great body of enlightened public opinion will. hope that the Natiohal tBroadcasting Servipe in .New-Yea- ( land will ' ■ follow -the: excellent lead of the British broadcasting i authorities,^ said the chairman of Ithe Canterbury Education Board, Mr. A. E. Lawrence/' in a statement at Timaru- in which he gave his approval to the decis-ion of the British Broadcasting . Corporation. to eliminate crime from its dramatic presentations. Mr. Lawrence said that the Canterbury Education Board had frequently expressed qoncern that' so many murder plays and crime stories were included in National Broadcastirig ifeervice programmes, biit all the iboard's representations f,had been . of no avail." Efforts had also been made to have a more rigid censor'ship imposed on crime' films that 1 could be seen by young children.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19490119.2.14
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 19 January 1949, Page 4
Word Count
136Crime Serials On The Radio Chronicle (Levin), 19 January 1949, Page 4
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in