PLAYS FOR COUNTRY LISTENERS
Sir,-People living in the country rely very largely on the wireless for their entertainment, especially as far as plays and concerts go. We have little opportunity for going, to the pictures, and then only after a tiresome car journey which means a late night and consequent tiredness the following day. Why then, sir, is it not possible for us to have on the 27 stations at least one good play of reasonable length (one to two hours) per week? At the moment we get a good but fiddling play of very short duration on Wednesdays, providing there -is nothing on in the Town Hall that pushes it out, and. another play on Fridays, usually a minute or two larger, but again providing | the
Town Hall or something does not push out the play, as is usually the case on Fridays, : Why must the only two plays of the week that are at reasonable "country listening" times be fiddled with when there are such masses of recitals, concerts, etc,, that one more or less of them would not be noticed? May we have more plays of reasonable length (at least one hour) or even two or three short plays to make up the hour and may we have them regularly with nothing pushing them out?
FRUSTRATED FARMWORKER
(Featherston).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 541, 4 November 1949, Page 5
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