ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 460, 16 April 1948, Page 5

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

"Grandfather". (Wanganui): fog the expression of your preference. Sr the world news is considered to be ta om ime portant to the listener without interests in the United Kingdom. "Sufferer"’ (Auckland): Announcer oe iene in the service,

More letters from listeners will be found on, page 22

(LETTERS FROM LISTENERS

(continued from page 5) PROGRAMME CO-ORDINATION Sir,-I have just returned from a holiday and had hoped during the interval that some improvement would be made in our musical programme. Instead I find the thing that annoyed me so much, and also all the friends with whom I have discussed it-the utter want to co-operation between the three Auckland Stations. On Friday, January 30, it was my misfortune to hear Mahiler’s Symphony No. 9. After 15 minutes I switched on to 1ZM to find one of those interminable plays which rob the occasional listener of many precious hours. So back to 1YA for another 15 minutes, hoping Mahler might have found his way to some melody. But it got worse. I then tried 1YX to find they had another of those interminable things which rob and annoy those of us whose listening hours are few and therefore the more valuable. Finally after trying out other programmes I managed to get 1ZM’s "Listeners’ Own Classical Programme" and I blessed the listeners who had chosen such a well varied programme. My grievance is this: why cannot these stations co-operate? When one station is putting on one and a-half hours of stuff like Mahler, surely the others can see to it that at least one station has a programme to which lovers of simpler music can listen. Then in the evenings, when we are tired and need cheering up, why not a little more humour? ‘Tommy Handley’s Half Hour, Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, and even Cheerful Charlie Chester do much to drive away the blues, but somehow our Auckland stations seem to have a horror of humour.

H.

ALEXANDER

(Auckland).