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Sir-When the Wellington Housewives’ Association recently requested "more suitable radio programmes because the majority of children listened to crime serials and not to children’s programmes," they went too far. I know many who, like ourselves, prefer "Thrillers" first, and we «also pay radio licences; we don’t request the deletion of crooners, jazz and rhythm because we detest them; we realise that all tastes must be considered, though at the same time we believe these do more harm than anything else, in failing to elevate children’s tastes. If parents cannot insist upon ‘the children tuning ‘to something else when a thriller is due; they lack ‘parental control; this, and not thrillers and unsuitable films is the cause of child delinquency. One has only to see a young mother entering, bus or tram, with a couple of children whom*she tells to "go and sit down" to notice that by no chance i¢ her ‘order evér obeyed until she reaches a seat; so’small wonder there is no obedience at home. It is absurd for these women to think that’ people are going to tolerate programmes limited to the level of children’s. mentality.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 5
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194THRILLER SERIALS New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 5
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