APPEAL FOR OLD PEOPLE
Sir,-I am the worst half of a Darby and Joan couple. After tea at nights we would like to hear something that would suit our tastes, and carry us along with some little pleasure, which we think we are entitled to for our 25/- fees and 3d for Listener. We can here get all National Stations on our set, but we cannot get anything before 6 p.m. What we like most is Parliament. Couldn’t they have their tea from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. After Parliament, or when they are in recess, could not one station put on a programme for older people? Let us have something different from Swing, Crooners, and Symphonies. Give us two hours of the lives of men and women that have done and are doing something. Get a Bruce Barton to tell us of Jesus Christ -not the present-day Church parson’s view; or the story of the brave old lady of the Blitz, who read the 23rd Psalm, took a nip of whisky, pulled the bedclothes around her, and toid Hitler to go.to hell; or of great somebodies that li@ed where snobs said nobody lived. Give. us something real. Délve into the lives of Jack Wesley, who woke up a Britain of seven million people, mostly poisoned by cheap gin, to a nation that the gates of hell could not prevail against; Stephen Foster for good music; Lord Shaftesbury for a giant reformer; old English Folk Songs; the Tolpuddle Martyrs; Dickens’ tales and his fight for reform; and a Dad and Dave session every night, not six on Thursday and the rest of the week none. Do this and make old people happy, and give the young something to think about.
SAM
WELLER
(Waihi.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 14
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293APPEAL FOR OLD PEOPLE New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 14
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