ONE PERSON'S CHOICE
TATION 1YD, which keeps fairly closely to a_ lower-middle-brow line, is the most matey of the Auckland National stations. Here the usually remotely efficient announcers let their hair down, and try, with some success, to capture the friendly atmosphere associated with the station since its 1ZM days. Typical of its special character are the request and_listener-participa-tion sessions. In one of these latter, The Last Six, a listener has to imagine that he is world cultural dictator with power to destroy all discs save six. Which six would he preserve, and why? The field is wide open for the most esoteric choices. But in the first programme I listened to, a Howick listener chose The Lord’s Prayer, Trees, Ebb-Tide, Woody Herman’s Blue Flame, a rebop job called Cuban Episode, and Bolero (which, we were assured, Ravel composed in a resthome!) I can’t myself imagine anything closer to purgatory than being reduced to listening to these six records. Yet this (to me) weird group apparently did really represent valuable experiences for one person-which makes me understand a little better the problem of programme-organisers.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 788, 27 August 1954, Page 10
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184ONE PERSON'S CHOICE New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 788, 27 August 1954, Page 10
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