MORE MIRTH WANTED
Sir-What is the reason for dropping the "Music, Mirth and Melody" programmes that were heard each week from 1YA and 1YX? Each week I look through the programmes in The Listener with hope in my heart, but evidently those responsible for drawing up the programmes do not feel like laughing. Nor do they want to encourage listeners to cultivate a sense of humour. Certainly in the "Music, Mirth and Melody" session, there was more music and melody than mirth, but one was thankful for what little there was. Let us have Gert and Daisy again, Clapham and Dwyer, Gracie Fields, Harry Tate, Stanley Holloway, Horace Kenny, just to mention a few. It is true that 2YA has for some weeks been broadcasting a Tommy Handley programme on Saturday evening. But why should the broadcast -be reserved for 2YA? ITMA was heard for part of last year from 1YA, Why not this year? Tommy Handley’s show is one of the most popular features of the BBC programmes, and New Zealand could do with him also. Probably few listeners know that Ted Kavanagh, who writes the ITMA scripts, is a New Zealander. I have tried every Saturday to pick up the broadcast from 2YA, but the static is so bad that it is impossible to listen in to that station. Are laughter and mirth rationed?
P. H.
DAWSON
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 454, 5 March 1948, Page 5
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230MORE MIRTH WANTED New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 454, 5 March 1948, Page 5
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