Big Frankenstein
INCE we have the backing of none other than the Director-General of the BBC, who has declared the nine o’clock. news to be a Frankenstein, it is now possible to protest against this intrusion into regular programmes without being thought an iconoclast. How mary studio performers have had their offerings summarily decapitated by the first
stroke of Big Ben? How few programmes run so carefully to schedule that they finish exactly before the hour? When listening, say, to a symphonic programme, with his mind on the music, the listener is in no mood to agree
that the time for silent prayer is in the middle of the last movement of a concerto; nor does he want to be reminded that it is nine o’clock, since Time is the last consideration to occupys#his musicfocussed attention. Why, therefore, can a change not be made in the programmes? Let the subsidiary stations, which usually broadcast longer works, cut out the nine o’clock chimes altogether, and announce the time after the music is finished, whether it is 9.3 or 9.13 p.m. To hear the time announced before the news from the main stations would be sufficient.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 329, 12 October 1945, Page 8
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194Big Frankenstein New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 329, 12 October 1945, Page 8
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