The Distaff Side
Viewpoint, with Cynthia Dale as cicerone, continues to be pretty good value. The fact that most of it interests a male listener is a measure of its success as an intelligent women’s session, for I cannot believe that any radio_ programme composed entirely of "women’s interests" would interest many women. I still deplore the changing of the onceexcellent Background to the News, originally geographical in emphasis, to a miscellaneous and often dull "current affairs" session. And the interminable Country Doctor is surely the soap-opera to end all soap-operas. Yet there is usually a good serial going (currently the choice Dead Silence); the film and occasional book reviews are a piquant contrast to their commercial station equivalents; interviews are frequent and well arranged, and there seers to be an ever-widening circle of good women speakers. Olive Johnson’s talks on life in the Americas have been quite outstanding, and Janine Regnaud on France scarcely less interesting. And Charles Lawrance’s gardening talks show that the session is no preserve of Amazons. I know little about gardening, and care less, but under the spell of Mr. Lawrance’s sage personality, I find my attention caught even by the humble wireworm. 1YA’s Feminine
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 14
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200The Distaff Side New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 14
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