QUITE ENOUGH SERIALS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 101, 30 May 1941, Page 4

QUITE ENOUGH SERIALS

Sir.-What’s creeping on Mary. Gee? (Listener, May 2.) She says there are not enough serials. Heaven preserve us from her ilk! We do NOT get music practically all day, not even from the four main National stations. There is music, ofcourse. but: just glance through the day’s programme of a YA station, Mary Gee, and note the News Broadcasts, talks on this and that, serials, services, etc. Why should we have one serial every evening in the early part of the programme? Those of us who get out and work have a personal serial of our own

going on all day. We appreciate music when we relax in the evenings. Mary Gee says, "during the day we use our radio only at meal times, and the programmes then are all music.’’ Well, well, whose fault is that? Must the programme organisers perspire over the needs of those who listen only while they eat? Try using your radio between meals, Mary Gee. Very willingly I concede that no really sane person enjoys the nauseous outpourings of Cotton, Crosby & Co., but must serials be substituted for them? There must be many thousands who, like myself, simply haven’t the time to settle down and listen to radio serials as an entertainment in themselves, but who do appreciate music-neither too highbrow nor too lowbrow-as a delightful, useful, and beneficial background to our reading and writing. Finally, what about trying the Commercial stations, Mary Gee? They are loaded to the gunwales with

serials, some of them excellent ones.-

FRANK

GEE

(Wellington).