MODIFIED RADIO PROGRAMMES
Sir,-I was astonished to learn from the papers that the Dominion Federations of School Committees Associations intend to urge upon the Government the "considerable" modification of the evening radio broadcasts in order to make them more suitable for children. I was under the impression that excellent children’s sessions were already provided by our various stations, but evidently I am mistaken. Doubtless the federation has in its mind’s eye the pleasing picture of happy familiesfather, mother and the children, down to the toddler sitting round the fire in winter, and the fire screen in summer listening in to the "completely revised" programme! Truly gratifying, but has the federation realised the amount of revision needed to produce a programme really suitable for children? Apart from the "sensational serials," there would have to be a clean sweep of the "Camp Concerts," "Bright Horizon," "The Stage Presents," etc., and most assuredly there would be no "Kapers""Krazy" or otherwise — all these being too vulgar for "Johnny and Gladys"! The series talks, Symphonies, and Opus would have to go, and even the "Brains Trust" might have to leave us-and what a loss that would be! These items would prove boring, and our modern child must never be bored. Surely it would be possible for the anxious parent to send the children out of the room during an unsuitable item, or they might even sacrifice themselves to the extent of turning off the radio. If the federation wants to do a .worthwhile job, let it continue to wage war on the abominable pictures often shown at the matinees. After the horrors that children sit through at these programmes the most "sensational serial" over the wireless must strike them es decidedly tame. This is a conversation I heard between two children emerging from a matinee: "Well, Ivy, how did you like the picture?" "Oh, it wasn’t up to much — there
weren’t no murders in it!’’-
LET WELL
ALONE
(Feilding).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 267, 4 August 1944, Page 5
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324MODIFIED RADIO PROGRAMMES New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 267, 4 August 1944, Page 5
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