End of the Day
HAT constitutes the perfect end to the day’s programme? My choice would be a gentle form of humour, reminiscence, poetry, story; or in music, something which familiarity has made easy to listen to-a gentle swan-song for the day’s end. So it is with dismay that I find that the 1952 Reith Lectures are to be heard from 4YC at 10.0 p.m., an hour when the freshness of early evening listening has been lost, and stern effort is required to summon the necessary concentration., They could, of course, be regarded as a soporific; but as that is not their highest function, it seems to me regrettable that they should be thrown away on late listening when, delivered earlier in the evening, these lectures could entertain and instruct those decrepit mortals like myself, who begin to fade shortly after 9.30 p.m.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 751, 4 December 1953, Page 10
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143End of the Day New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 751, 4 December 1953, Page 10
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