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S far as listening is concerned, Saturday night is (for me) the liveliest night of the week, and for this happy state of affairs 2YA’s Variety Magazine is largely responsible. The parts that are good are very, very good, and none of them could be ranked as horrid. In the lowest category, however, I would place Chapter 3, sub-titled "Did You Know This?" which I can only suppose was included by the compilers to flatter their audience, since the only facts they imply we do not know are facts of no interest or importance, such as that a cat in Auckland has now had 97 kittens or that a farmer (in Timaru I think it was) owns a calf with five legs. These things move me not at all, but I still shake with laughter at the recollection of one opening chapter wherein we were privileged to hear the announcer’s comments "from a theatre in the heart of London" on the opening night of "Coward’s latest success This Blithe Breed." The last chapter of the magazine sounds,
on paper, the most impressive, consisting as it does of three minutes of some news broadcast or commentary which has now made history (the week before last: we had the announcement of the fall of Warsaw). But the years have played such havoc with the recordings (cursed at birth by poor reception conditions) that any significance they may have is swallowed up in the irritation attending our efforts to decipher them.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 382, 18 October 1946, Page 12
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249Titbits New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 382, 18 October 1946, Page 12
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