The Shows of Yesteryear
HERE are times when melancholy overcomes me at the thought of the evanescence of radio programmes. The listener shares with the film-goer an inability to pursue the beloved object down the dusty corridors of the stack room, but whereas the filmgoer’ is occasionally accorded the grace of the return season, there is too seldom any return season for the programme addict. True, History’s Unsolved Mysteries and Popular Fallacies, after proving a commercial success, have had a_ provinsiel airing from 2YD; old ITMA
programmes have stolen incognito upon the delighted ear in Thursday night’s Moods session, and Fool’s Paradise did have a triumphant return season. But the selection of programmes for disinterment seems so arbitrary that I find no comfort in this short list of revenants, nor any assurance that my favourites will strike upon anything more palpable than the inward ear.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 10
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145The Shows of Yesteryear New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 10
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