HOME ATMOSPHERE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 628, 3 April 1929, Page 14

HOME ATMOSPHERE

NEW BROADCAST IDEA Some time ago the Cardiff studio broadcast a new thing in introducing the home atmosphere into a concert. The concert went under the name Cartref (home) and represented the gathering of a Welsh family on Sunday evening. The various members of the family chatted about the day’s events, and being a Welsh home the events were naturally those of the chapel. How It Was Arranged There was criticism of a hymn from one member and then the hymn was sung; a solo became the topic of conversation and that was sung; bits of gossip were thrown in between the items and now and then the mother would tell the children that it was bed-time and they would plead to stay down to hear just another hymn. This method suggests immense possibilities and would break the monotony of the present system of announcing each item in the orthodox way. Instead of having a set commentary or report of some pageant why not have the results from a home. The children who had seen the pageant added to cross-talk and questions would get at us more vividly. The father or mother could be a person who knew something about the affair. It would be interesting on Auckland Cup day. say. to have the gossip of home in addition to the official comments. In that gossip the disappointment and the triumphs would come to us as we feel them ourselves. A Saturday evening in Cockney London was. sent over very successfully from London and whenever something near this broadcast from a home has been tried it has been an unqualified success. There is so much humour and wit latent in this method that even the driest possible programme could be made lively. Give Us "Discussions” The criticism of talks would be lessened if two or three could discuss the subject rather than one person lecturing on it. An Auckland home gossip on Saturday night after a football match would be Interesting and the talk of a few boys who had been to Eden Park. Why not broadcast an Auck* land or Wellington home scene on Sunday nights?