RADIO SERIALS.
Sir-I am quite in accord with the letter in your issue signed "Thrillers First." It seems rather absurd that so many listeners (including myself) should be deprived of serials because some parents have no control over their children. There are items on most programmes that do not appeal,to me, but I do not insist that the NBS remove thent The Phantom Drummer and The Laughing Man were old friends: the latter I read at the age of 12, also most of Victor Hugo’s other books, by direetion of my father. More harm is done by the mawkish sickly sentimental type of serial than by a good thriller. At one
time it was "Deadwood Dick" who was sending the youth of the country to perdition. Then it was the cinema. Now it is radio. But it is none of these: lack of parental control is the chief trouble. I am on night duty, and every morning in the early hours (Sunday as well) there are young girls walking the streets and being noisy and ill-behaved.
THRILLER FAN
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 288, 29 December 1944, Page 5
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179RADIO SERIALS. New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 288, 29 December 1944, Page 5
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