LATE BROADCASTS
Sir,-Station 1YA has an infuriating habit of, putting on complete plays at a late hour when most citizens have gone, or are about to go, to bed. This ambitious and satisfactory fofm of radio entertainment is. thus largely wasted. It seems to me the system is too hidebound by custom. Anybody who reads the programmes a few times knows them by heart. Why not juggle the times a bit and give us a shock? With London news and weather report at 10.0 p.m. and a studio presentation at 9.30, would the unwise collapse? An empty grate and fuel conservation drove me to bed at 10.0 p.m. the other Sunday night, though very interested in a play concerning a magic pair of trousers. The owner. was being offered £10,000 for the garment By the Government. (Poor
taxpayer!) A fantasy of this nature needs very clever handling to avoid an anti-climax. Did the author succeed? Unless ‘you, sir, will enlighten me, I chall never know.
REDMUND L.
REED
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 531, 26 August 1949, Page 19
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169LATE BROADCASTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 531, 26 August 1949, Page 19
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