PROGRAMME ARRANGEMENTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 345, 1 February 1946, Page 5

PROGRAMME ARRANGEMENTS

Sir,-There has been much discussion in your columns in connection with radio programmes. And I think many of your correspondents are voicing the feelings of quite a few listeners in New Zealand. My-.family and I have been‘ getting dissatisfied over recent years. And the reason has been exactly what one correspondent _ stated: poor programme arrangement, presentation, and the repetition of the same old records. Why is every record announced one by one, for instance? One correspondent was right about a "dreary medley" of records all day. First we hear, say, Richard Tauber, then Charlie Kunz, then the Mills Brothers (old records at that), then some other performer, and so on, Now why don’t the NBS give us a quarter of an hour of Tauber, a quarter of an hour or 10 minutes of Kunz, etc., and present the daily programmes that way? These half-hour, quarter-hour or 10-minute presentations want to be woven ether and put over in an interesting and entertaining manner. After about an hour | or two like this, there should be a talk, or play, then go back to, say, classical music presented in decent-sized amounts of one orchestra, or performer. The programmes wouldn’t seem so many "bits and pieces," and lack coherence, as they do now. Even the main Australian stations make their programmes up as I have suggested, as do America and England; I am waiting hopefully for an announcement that the NBS is going to overhaul the whole of the country’s radio listening soon,

GEO. F.

RITCHIE

(Merivale)