Saturday Morning

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 443, 19 December 1947, Page 10

Saturday Morning

| |N week-day morning sessions it seems to be the YA stations that cater for our practical needs and the ZB’s who offer us escape from the practicalities of living into a dream world of love and romance. But on Saturdays the position is reversed, and while 2YA unheedingly trips the primrose path with Music While You Work, Paul Clifford, and Gems from Light Opera, busy 2ZB improves the shining hour with a gardening talk and a housewives’ improvement ‘| session. Now Snowy’s gardening session is beautifully timed, since it comes upon the paterfamilias in that mellow afterbreakfast mood in which, though everything in the garden is not lovely, he is optimistic enough to suppose that by Sunday evening it may have become so. From Snowy we pass on to Marjorie, less happily because to her and her listeners life is real and earnest; there is no five-day week for housewives, and

recipes for preserving the paintwork must, like little strangers, be welcomed at whatever hour they choose to put in an appearance. What a contrast to this rich didacticism is provided if now we cross to 2YA in time for Paul Clifford!

For here is Escape personified, with a hero who is as unconcerned as Houdini at getting into tight corners and as adept at getting out of them, and a heroine too busy preserving her virtue to think of the paintwork. The woman with the wit to change stations at 10.40 will satisfy her dual nature as housewife and heroine.