The Other Fellow's Radio
HEARD a play one evening whose name I don’t know; and I don’t even know what station it came from. It was one of those occasions when other people’s radios are turned on and off by their owners, and visitors have to be content with their host’s taste in listening; when the thing the visitor wants to hear is switched off in a‘ifurv by the
host, and the thing the host enjoys is an agony to the guest. My ‘host tuned to this play a few minutes after it had begun. It seemed to be a wedding party, Aunt Somebody was marrying Uncle Someone. Speeches at the wedding breakfast deteriorated into partisan attacks against (or in favour of) women’s suffrage, At the finish there were tender scenes between the newlyweds, and a contretemps about the luggage. My host and family chuckled appreciatively and switched off in a gale of laughter, while I sat and writhed in embarrassment. _When asked for my opinion I mumbled something incoherent, not daring to say in cold blood that I had never, in my whole listening career, heard such a lot of unmitigated twaddle. But I determined never again to be inveigled into listening to other people’s radios, : —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 19
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207The Other Fellow's Radio New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 19
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