How to Listen
HE first question posed in last week’s Monday night discussion from 2YA was "How can one make the best use of the radio?" Although Professor Beaglehole leapt in with the not very bright suggestion that it should be taken into the backyard and axed, Dr. Agnes Bennett thought the only way was to buy a Listener and put crosses against the desired programmes, I think it was Mr. Perry who confessed to having the radio on a lot and to Micawbering. Personally I should plump for planned listening, but it cannot be denied that haphazard listeners hear most of the game, even if they run the risk of having their selective faculties ruined in the process. Listener pro"grammes cannot be fuller without becoming unwieldy, and in any ¢ase rigid adherence to minutely planned programmes would remove any element of spontaneity. I think we must tune in occasionally on the offchance, and if we net only the mediocre console ourselves with the reflection that recognition of the highest when we hear it presupposes some acquaintance with a lower rank, :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 508, 18 March 1949, Page 10
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181How to Listen New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 508, 18 March 1949, Page 10
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