SUNDAY CONCERTS AND RADIO
TO THE EDITOR Sir,—l would like to ask " Citizen " why he considers that the commercial broadcasting station should not operate at all on Sunday, and also what programmes should be subjected to strict censorship. If the people who object to the programmes of the commercial broadcasting service were at church on the Sunday evenings they would not hear them, and they do not need to listen to them when they are at home. A person who keeps strictly to his religion on Sunday should not have the radio in use at all on that day. Moreover, does "Citizen" think of all the patients who look forward to hearing the hospital session every Sunday morning to cheer them up and relieve them of suffering. Perhaps, in the opinion of " Citizen " this and the request session should also be stopped. If one station should be closed down on Sunday why not all? People in the country like to listen to the services, and to other programmes on Sundays. What has the radio to do with drink traffic on Sunday? The radio offers clean entertainment and there is no fear of it injuring the health or making the people get muddled heads, and feeling sorry for themselves afterwards.—l am, etc.. Palmerston. Country Listener.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24411, 24 September 1940, Page 9
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214SUNDAY CONCERTS AND RADIO Otago Daily Times, Issue 24411, 24 September 1940, Page 9
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