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URING the holidgy season a very beautiful relationship appears to exist between the programme arranger and the average listener. Lulled by holiday food, mellowed by seemly conviviality. kept indoors by holiday weather, the typical holiday-maker tunes in gratefully to the strange radio as to a familiar friend, and his touching dependence is not abused. A couple of be-crackered TIFHS, and excellent variety show You’re Welcome, and some shiversome racontage from The Man in Black provided all that I, at any rate, could have desired by way of holiday listening. But holidays are short, art is long, as I was forcibly reminded when, after a week or two of lotus-eating listening I was brought slap-bang up against The Face of Violence, an hout-and-a-half’s strenuous fighting through overgrown bypaths of allegory to a foregone but nicely-expressed conclusion to which I feel there must have been a more straightforward route. Perhaps it is a programme I shall appreciate more when time has had a chafice to knit up my ravelled intellectual fibres, but I am certainly not going to be masochistic enough to ask for a repeat.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 11
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185Contrast New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 11
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