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»ir,-Apropos of a programme that professes to be "new," might one ask why most of the Saturday Night Entertainment from 2YA’on May 15, was taken up by the recording of the Film Festival of 1946? We are more or less hardened by now ,to two-year-old programmes, but this particular one was broadcast from the main ‘stations only a short while ago, I will admit that one of the main stations left out a large chunk of the recordings, but that seems to ibe no excuse for including it in a "new" programme. There seems to be in the New Zealand programmes a great lack of originality. By a conservative estimate I should think that 90 per cent. of the programmes we hear are recorded. But why are they so old? Surely there are plenty of plays and stories available in this country? As it happens a short® 7 of mine was accepted by the NZ year ago, but it has never been billed. cast. I am not suggesting: for one minute that my play has any particular merit, but there are probably hundreds of such plays and stories that would at least have the advantage of being fresh and not second-hand from the BBC and many years old. I find this lack of originality in the programmes the major fault in New Zealand radio. The listener pays enough, heaven knows, for his programmes. And growls enough. But that is as far*as it
eets:
STEPHEN
LYLE
(Tokomaru Bay).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 5
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249RECORDED PROGRAMMES New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 5
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