East, West
NE of the nicest things about returning home from my Week Abroad was to find myself once more vis-a-vis with my own radio. A poor thing, most would say, looking at the coffin-shaped exterior, the paltry couple of knobs, perhaps casting an unkindly eye over the five battered valves inside. But to me it has been a faithful friend. Its knob responds to my slightest twiddle, swinging from 2YA to 2ZB and back again with practised ease, in contrast to the classier one at my host’s, which moved reluctantly, six cranks to a kilocycle, and then turned out to have been on megacycles after all. ‘Then there was the one in the hotel: lounge, which, wedded since manufacture to its local Commercial station, set its dial firmly against divorce. What with one thing and another (the scowls of fellow loungers, for example), it was surprising that I managed to listen to anything, and not surprising that the score was a mixed bag. The ubiquitous Tommy Handley, the Desert Song in Musical
Comedy Theatre (good listening, this, with delightfully unnaive commentary between numbers) and an episode ‘of Barnaby Rudge, unidentified till record’s end. All of which made me very grateful to be back to my own fireside and my own radio, and the miraculouslypreserved current-programme Listener.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 498, 7 January 1949, Page 14
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217East, West New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 498, 7 January 1949, Page 14
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