PLANNED PROGRAMMES
Sir,- Your correspondent Robin Rockel said several things that I had thought of saying myself. While trying out programmes in search of entertainment for an invalid (for whom the Classical Hour. is often too highbrow) I have become conscious of the often incongruous mixture of fare presented. One difficulty is the lack of the "happy medium" type of entertainment during the afternoon; or if it is there how to know when and where to find it. Many programme headings indicate very little: for example, "Favourite Entertainers," "Celebrity Artists,". etc. have been known to delight with a half-hour of choice vocal and instrumental music, but are just as likely to bore with worn-out humorous sketches or irritate with’ crooners and jazz. An extra word or two here and there on the programme pages would help. If shortage of space is the trouble, why not bar advertisements from these pages? Also crooning and modern dance music could be reduced; at present it crops up all over the place to the exclusion of much that would be far more acceptable to many people. Please don’t think we get no pleasure from our radio. It comes in snatches here and there, which is perhaps all one can
expect when so many tastes have to be. catered for. But if improvement is possible please let us have it; as if the present state is trying for the nerves of people who are well, think what it is for ailing ones.
HERE'S HOPING
(Nelson).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 295, 16 February 1945, Page 23
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250PLANNED PROGRAMMES New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 295, 16 February 1945, Page 23
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