Grouch
FEATURE of regular listening which struck me with particular force this week was the essentially--and, I suppose, inevitably — scrappy nature of the daily programmes. One cannot please everybody at once; therefore one cims at pleasing the maximum number of people in the minimum amount of time. So in one hour of 3YA’s morning programme we proceed from Current Ceiling Prices through some Vaughan Williams music, The Rhythm of the Dance, and a serial For My Lady to the Devotional Service, In the afternoon by a curious thought process, we move from "Breathing, Resonance and Relaxation" by way of Joseph Szigeti to Whooping Cough; this is topped off by Ravel and Debussy in the Classical Hour, followed by Ridin’ the Range. Admittedly, there seems to be no way out of this, if the public is to be served and not just a small section of it. And also admittedly the evening programmes are in general less marred by this extreme variety than the daytime ones. But to have my grouch out to the full, why must Harry, Davidson © play Old-Time Dances at four o'clock of an afternoon?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 434, 17 October 1947, Page 10
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