BOOK REVIEW SESSIONS
Sir-The change to weekly presentation of Book Shop is most welcome, but the consequent abandonment of the ZB Book Review is to be regretted. Book Shop is an excellent programme and one of its most enjoyable features has been the short talks and the "tit-bits’"" which have made up the bulk of the sessions. Now that the whole burden of the NZBS book reviewing is to fall on its shoulders there appears to be a possibility of its losing that distinctive character which has in the past made it such a different book session. There are so many books to be reviewed today that there appears to be room for both programmes. Also the ZB review was broadcast at a time when, I think, most people interested would be able to listen. The timing of the new Book Shop means that one will be likely to miss programmes quite often. When a programme of wide interest is to be broadcast surely it is better>to let each of the main stations play it at different times. If, for instance, one is cut on a Wednesday one can still hear that edition of, say, Book Shop from another station on another night.
D.
H.
(Christchurch).
(Abridged.-
~Ed:
Sir-A feature looked for in many country homes was the book reviews, so that we were surprised and disgusted, on a Sunday night, to be told the ZB review was to be the last. This latest decision of the NZBS proves that programmes are arranged by city people for city people. Town folk have the municipal libraries, city and suburban, private libraries, plus the library van going to the suburbs, each week. We have the Country Library Service van once in four months. This week it has been three-quarters filled with tomes Adam would not have been interested in. We depended on the reviews to send to the Service for request books. If the session Book Shop, put over last night, is a sample of what we are to choose our reading from, I think it is a slur on our intelligence. There was a review of a book on football, plus an autobiography of a dress designer, plus a lot of unnecessary chatter.
FREEDOM OF
CHOICE
(Nelson).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 5
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376BOOK REVIEW SESSIONS New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 5
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