"WHEN TIREDNESS CREEPS IN"
Sir-I agree with you that most people turn to broadcasting for pleasure rather than for instruction, but I think syou. under-estimate the numbers in the latter category if we are to judge by the excessive amount of time devoted to musical pregrammes. I believe that a knowledge of the world we live in, of history and philosophy, makes for more pleasure of a more exciting and permanent nature than all the music ever written. Your remedy for the ordinary citizen suffering from "too much listening" is that he should revert to silence. May I suggest that an intellectual rather than a predominantly emotional appeal is more likely to goad him into fruitful action, which is a more effective form of occupational therapy than "lying fallow"? Any suggestion that the inventive resources of radio seem to have been ex,hausted must come as a surprise to many who consider that one of radio’s main functions, that of instruction, has as yet hardly been tried. This letter has been prompted by. your statement that "listeners who come refreshed from silence may see more tlearly than other people where improvements could be made in the programmes," With many an evening of elected silence to my: credit I feel amply qualified, at least by this standard, to offer this criticism.
J. H.
MACDONALD
(Inglewood),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 538, 14 October 1949, Page 5
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223"WHEN TIREDNESS CREEPS IN" New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 538, 14 October 1949, Page 5
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