NOT ENOUGH SERIALS
Sir,-I think that if "Mere Schoolgirl" had taken the trouble to study the evening programmes from the four main stations before complaining about the number of serials, she would have found that, on the contrary, there are far too few of them. Many others I krow, agree with me in saying that since we get music practically all day, we should have one serial every evening.in the early part of the programme. As it is, we have serials on Monday evening from 1YA, and then not another until Thursday. There is an excellent serial to be had from Christchurch on Thursday evening also, but "unfortunately when the evening programme was changed to 7.30, this serial was put on practically at the same time as the 1YA serial, so one cannot have both. One would like to know also what "Schoolgirl" means by more music. Does she want an increase in such stuff as Billy Cotton’s band? There are half a dozen of these shocking dance orchestras, which consist mainly @f blaring saxophores to the accompaniment of noisy thumps and screeches, and frequently when a gap has to be filled in, one of these frightful records is put on, which one has to endure to c:sure rot missing the item ore wants. There should be special sessions of this material for those who like it, so that it should not be unexpectedly interspersed in good programmes. During the day, we use our radio only at meal times, and the programmes then are all music, with a very occasional sketch, so I fail to see how anyone could say there are too many
serials.:
MARY
GEE
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 97, 2 May 1941, Page 4
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