Anti-Social
RIGHT spots that promise novelty in the programmes are landmarks to the regular radio fan-to be heavily scored in the current Listener, and on no account to be missed. When three such sessions in a week slide by unheard owing to the vagaries of friends and family, it gives one, as the French say, furiously to think. Something is
wrong somewhere-even politeness has its limits. There are those who can follow the furnishing problems of Dave and Mabel of Snake Gully with one eat, and the domestic trials of Mrs Next-Door with the other-and register a suitable expression of interested sympathy to boot. But such versatility is
beyond most of us. Elementary good manness forbid us to sit and snigger happily at Handley’s sallies while our guests freeze into a bored silence. It is a difficult problem, and it is high time some method was evolved for dealing with it. Dearly as we love our friends, and carefully as we choose them, there are bound to be times when they come between us and our radio. The only solution that has presented itself to date (its defects are obvious) is to bolt the door, turn out the light, and be to all intents and purposes, and to all visitors, "Not At Home."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 456, 19 March 1948, Page 29
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213Anti-Social New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 456, 19 March 1948, Page 29
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