Hobson's Choice
HE evening programmes from 4YA show a steady decline that surely was not intended when 4YC’s programmes were improved, and this is most obvious in the spoken material. Any programme which has the merit of being well-written, well-produced, or even of more than average interest in the evening appears in the 4YC programme, whether it is a BBC documentary, book review, play or story.. While this segregation of programmes is irritating to the city-dweller in that he is left with Hobson’s choice, the country listener, as I discovered on a recent holiday in Central Otago, where the reception for 4YC is often bad, has little chance at all of hearing these 4YC selected plums, A most vivid example recently of the present attitude to 4YA’s listeners occurred with the series on the relative advantages of the North and South Islands. While four talks were given from 4YA, the final talk (by Cotsford Burdon). which, without being "difficult" in any ‘way was rather more witty, was played at a different time
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 11
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175Hobson's Choice New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 11
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