MORE HUMOUR PLEASE.
Sir,-With "Mother of, Twelve" I regret the lack of fun in the daily programmes. I wish the programme organisers and radio entertainers could see my young son listening to something funny. He rolls helpless with sob-splitting laughter, tears stream from his eyes, and all the while he gasps "This is too. much! This is too much!" It is a loss to his family that such laughter has so few occasions for bursting forth. Instead at the time when he might listen in, a diet is served up which would make him bolt for the nearest door, and this in spite of the fact that some of the serials are specially written for young people. Once when I explained that characters in radio serials were made more wicked than people really were for the sake of excitement, he said that he preferred people sillier than they are than wickeder than they are, and I am sure he is not alone in his pre-
ference.
JOCULARITY
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 186, 15 January 1943, Page 3
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168MORE HUMOUR PLEASE. New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 186, 15 January 1943, Page 3
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