The Working Week
AR from being conscious of the hell we commentators inhabit (to quote Mr. Dermot Cathie), I thoroughly enjoy being a radio commentator. But this week I am rather conscious of Programmes I Need Not Have Listened To. (Moral-never mislay a Listener.) On Tuesday, the Pig Talk ("The Freezing Industry") obviously intended for stouter ears than mine; the same day, an Appointment with Fear ("The Gong Cried Murder") which I need not have kept, since Fear failed to turn up anyway. On Thursday, a rather dull debate on the Dairy Bill. On Friday, a good three-quarters of The Gold Diéggers, billed as a witty comedy, certainly lavishly decorated with bright boudoir backchat, but, like a palindrome, having an end implicit in its beginning. On
Saturday the Tommy Handley Half-| Hour, with the spectacle unedifying to an ITMA fan of Tommy playing bunnyrabbit to Cheerful Charlie Chester’s tortoise. Finally. "Write a Song for £2000," an account of a recent song competition won by two conventional and tuneful waltz songs "Cruising Down the River" and "When You're in Love with Somebody Else" (so much better expressed years ago by "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes"). Next week of course I may listen to a similar selection of programmes (though I seldom make the same mistake twice) and enjoy myself more-it’s just possible that my present jaundiced ear is due to the fact that I had been asked out only two nights of that week.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 423, 1 August 1947, Page 12
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244The Working Week New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 423, 1 August 1947, Page 12
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