Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep
HE more I hear of the 2YA Women’s Session the more I like it. Admittedly I have sometimes found Monday and Tuesday heavy going. Monday being what it is, I occasionally resent sparing time from the wash-tub_ to _ (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) listen to three offerings with a domestic bias, when I would prefer to escape into a Grace Gibson world where For Love of a Woman the husband does the weekly wash on Saturday, and on Tuesdays I have found that Mr. Harper’s knowledgeahle New Zealand Bird talks make a heavy second course to the solid goodness of Norma Cooper’s Pioneer Women. However, now that Monday is partly devoted to Mrs. E. S. Fry’s skittish London to New Zealand talks and Tuesday to Sybil Lee’s gently personal Life Among the Maoris the session is not too weighted with listener-improvement. But it is Wednesday, I imagine, that appeals most strongly to listeners. The Panel shows an extraordinary versatility in dealing with listeners’ questions on , topics ranging from child behaviour to modern art, and if their dissertations show less than Brains Trust spontaneity at all events they never ever send the earnest seeker after guidance unsatisfied away.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 521, 17 June 1949, Page 10
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