These I Have Missed
RADIO fan avoids useless repining by never glancing backwards through the programmes, since past programmes can logically be included in the nonrevenant trio of Spoken Word, Sped Arrow, and Neglected Opportunity. But to the listener in jaundiced mood nothing is more gratifying. I find, for example, that I have missed the Absolutely Final Episode of Imperial Lover (in actual fact, I have missed all of them) which means I shall probably go through the rest of my life with no more idea of Catherine the Great than that provided by folklore and Elizabeth Bergner. I : (continued on next page)
(cogtinued from previous page) am slightly more perturbed by my failure to take in any of Douglas Cresswell’s series on Coal-Wealth of the West Coast, since I have heard so many of his talks with enjoyment, and my excuse (that I was Twenty-one and Outing at the ZB’s at the time) is perhaps inadequate. But what gives me the greatest pleasure in my catalogue of omissions is the fact that, owing to the absence from horhe of the one politically-minded member of the family I have not once been tuned in to the House of Representatives, heard the news or even the weather report. I can look back on a delightful week of almost entirely frivolous listening, with due gratitude for the fact that the frivolous are always well catered for.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 488, 29 October 1948, Page 8
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234These I Have Missed New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 488, 29 October 1948, Page 8
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