MORE BRICKS AND BOUQUETS
Sir,-You printed recently a letter from a listener criticising the ZB programmes, and throwing a few bouquets and also bricks. After listening to our local commercial station pretty regularly, I feel I must add both bricks and bouquets. Here are my bricks: (1) "The Harleywood Noos Reporter" with his rubbish about Bing’s breakfast parties. (2) "Beddy and Barb" (at least that’s how it sounds), with their continual and never-ending struggles with their souls. Apparently the routine is for Barb to plonk his soul on the breakfast table occasionally and for Beddy to apply first-aid to it. Do people go on like that in America? (3) "Secret Diary." That woman’s struggles with her conscience and her "Dear Diary"! Why doesn’t she burn it, give her obnoxious daughter a hit over the head with the ashcan and go down town and see somebody else. My bouquets are, among others, these: (1) "Easy Aces." You can picture Ace and Marge and (if your women readers can take it), even Jane. (2) "Tusitala"-nearly always good. (3) "Lost Empire"-although it’s starting to drag a bit. : (4) "Chuckles with Jerry"- although Jerry is inclined to become a little crude at times. (5) "Enemy Within." The bouquets are really much more numerous than the bricks, and our radio very seldom leaves 2ZB, but those three features I have complained about are awful. Hoping you can find the space for this little com-
plaint-cum-compliment:
ANTI-MUSH
(Wellington),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 103, 13 June 1941, Page 4
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242MORE BRICKS AND BOUQUETS New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 103, 13 June 1941, Page 4
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