Demand Bid?
ITH unusual diffidence, 1YA recently began a new studio session Bridge on the Air. Asking listeners to send in their comments, the announcer said that if the feature did not please bridge-players, Messrs, Bell and McKillop need not waste their time coming along. Although such an attitude on the part of the authorities might well be encouraged with Tegard to some programmes, I am sure it was not justified in this case. I found Bruce Bell’s introductory remarks on the origin and development of the game most revealing, and the analysis of specific points of play, to even such a tyro as myself, easy to follow and helpful. After all, if football, racing, tennis and cricket enthusiasts are so amply catered for on the radio, why should not bridge-players, whose name is legion, have their brief 20 minutes? There are only two things I would criticise in the session. First, slightly more time should be given, I feel, between the statement of a particular problem and the answer, to enable the listener to think out his own (continued on nert page) ee
RADIO REVIEW (continued from previous page) approach. Secondly, the session might be given rather earlier than 9.50 (somewhat late for any talk) to allow bridge-play-ers to get a few wrinkles before engag-
ing in the evening’s tussle.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 529, 12 August 1949, Page 11
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223Demand Bid? New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 529, 12 August 1949, Page 11
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