Count Your Blessings
OHN REID’S Radio at Your Service programme from 2YA was one that demanded, and at first impression merited, attention. Mr, Reid is gifted as a programme organiser-he can take odd chunks of unmalleable material and rivet them into a programme with coherence and force, liberally decorated with wit. Though this type of process does not make for a quiet half-hour, it probably did us good to be stirred out of our post-prandial stupor and become a target for lumps of embryonic radio ‘material, But when the tumult and the Shouting had died, the technicians, the programme organisers, the men up the pole at Titahi, and all the other dramatic personae had taken their bow and departed, it was good to hear the soothing strains of the music preceding Big Ben. The programme certainly succeeded in its minor aim of giving us some idea of the processes which must function perfectly before even the simplest item can be put on the air. But assuming its major aim was to celebrate ten successful years of broadcasting by the NBS, a short résumé of memorable broadcasts would have been more likely to arouse feelings of gratitude in the listener than a programme which was largely an appeal to us to be thankful to the NBS for such small mercies as getting serial. episodes in their right order. and employing announcers who don’t blow into the mike.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 372, 9 August 1946, Page 15
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236Count Your Blessings New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 372, 9 August 1946, Page 15
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