"THE MAN BORN TO BE KING"
Sir,-The forthcoming presentation over the air of Miss Dorothy Sayers’ plays is an event which all people interested: in religious broadcasts have been looking forward to with keen interest. It may help to relieve the dullness of a great deal of the religious broadcasting, which has been confined far too much to the broadcasting of public services, many of which are not particularly suitable. And it will present us with matter which is of preeminent quality, both religiously and as radio drama. But I must express disappointment over two things. 1, What justification can there be for putting this programme on at such an inconvenient hour? Just at tea-time on the day when church people, presumably the section of the public most interested in these plays, are most anxious to get tea over early so that they may get to church, I know that the plays were originally produced in Great Britain during the Children’s Hour. It was found to be an inconvenient hour there, though the plays succeeded despite the inconvenience. Why repeat what the British authorities admit to have been a mistake? 2. For the opening play, which tells the Christmas story, why select Easter
Day?-
D. M.
HERCUS
(Wellington).
(The Director of Broadcasting, when shown this letter, said (1) that 5.0 p.m.’ was chosen as the bioadcasting hour so that church people could listen-in and still go to church, and (2) that Easter Day was chosen for the i broadcast because it had not been possible to start earlier. The records had . to come from London, were expected. for Se ama but had, in fact, just arrived.-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 251, 14 April 1944, Page 5
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