Bright, and Dull
LTHOUGH Radio Roadhouse, heard over the YAs, is wonderfully boosted along by its live military audiences, and although it owes something to TIFH and certain American sessions, it remains a worthwhile programme in its own right. To listen is to laugh, more especially because many of the jokes are topical-to wit, the crack about the "New Zealand Slayers," or the phoney weather forecast delivered with that strong Scottish burr. All this is in marked contrast to 3YA’s Hurrah For Us. This has its brighter moments, like the take-off on Book Shop, but in the main it is pedestrian. The Calypsos, one for each session, though possibly composed by a West Indian, don’t have the interest of their originals; and the address on the Y.C.G.-Youth Club for Girls, you know-is embarrassing to listen to, probably because you sense ‘that here someone is trying, oh, so desperately, to be funny and yet you can’t oblige with the belly laugh.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 799, 12 November 1954, Page 24
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160Bright, and Dull New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 799, 12 November 1954, Page 24
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