ITMA PROGRAMMES
Sir,-"Listener" of Hawera has a very reasonable grouse in his objection to old ITMA programmes. I have been’ an ITMA enthusiast ever since I arrived in England in 1942. A shipmate and I met That Man and Ted Kavanaugh at the Gaumont Studios once. The film ITMA revealed that the screen just wasn’t Handley’s medium of expression. ITMA is not tremendously popular in New Zealand and the reason is not hard to. find. The broadcast has always depended on topicalities and it probably hit its wartime popularity for that reason. Even the best-informed about English politics, etc., are bound to miss quite a lot when the programme is only a year old. But when the recordings are three years old it is surely a bit of a strain. « * T hate the thought of having no more new ITMA programmes in a few months, _ but the repetition of old ones is perhaps harmful to the New Zealander’s appreciation of English humour.
CHINSTRAP
(Great Barrier Island).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 523, 1 July 1949, Page 5
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166ITMA PROGRAMMES New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 523, 1 July 1949, Page 5
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