Feast or Famine
OR some time now Dunedin’s Friday evening programmes have been consistently dull, 4YA having embarked on a course of serials (Dad and Dave, Torch of Freedom and Strictly Private) interspersed with varied short musical programmes (Music the Benny Goodman Way, Cowboy Roundup and Your Dancing Party), to quote from the offering for May 28. In the meantime, 4YC presents a mixed bag of sonatas, and compositions by Moussorgsky, Schubert, Fauré, Mozart and the Schumanns, the only spoken material being a long series on Romance in Literature, by Bob Rob-
ertson, previously heard in April. To those of us who enjoy a spoken programme the choice is poor indeed, and compares unfavourably with the following Sunday, when from 4ZB we could hear a BBC documentary, and 4YA and 4YC present no fewer than two plays and two short stories. A more even distribution of programmes between Friday evening and Sunday could do much to improve listening on both days.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 11
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161Feast or Famine New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 11
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