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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 25

RADIO PROGRAMMES of long standing are reviewed every now~and then to test their popularity with listeners. During the 14 years of its life the 1ZB Request Session, broadcast between noon and 2.0 p.m. on Sundays, has undergone regular examination, and the verdict, 1ZB tells me, has always favoured its retention. Of course, volume of mail is a guide, but an, individual letter also will sometimes indicate that a service is being provided for a particular section of listeners, and give evidence of a wide audience. Here, for instance, is a letter from the 1ZB Request Session mail bag, written by Eric Booth (above), a patient in Auckland Hospital: "Every day since you broadcast my request I have had no end of mail from people whom I had almost torgotten-real old and good friends I knew many years ago. Every visiting day some of my pals come to see me. One has to be in hospital to appreciate the good that your request session doe’ for inmates. One family came from Manunui, below Taumarunui, to see me; they would never have known I was in hospital had it not been for your call on the previous Sunday." It looks as if 1ZB’s Request Session may have an innings of another 14 years