THE GOON SHOW
Sir-I am one who fully agrees with the views of your cofrespondent "S-oon G-how" in your issue of April 27 on the above. I have listéned only once to the broadcast and that was enough. We ate getting far too much of this kind of entertainment over the radio, and it is about time the half-hour wasted on this kind of rubbish on Saturdays from 9.30 p.m. to 10,0 p.m. was replaced by some good music. In recent mohths we have had Take It From Here, Calling Miss Courtneidge, Hancock’s Half Hour and Much Binding, all much on the same lines as the Goon Show. If we have to have a little variety, then let it be confined to Radio Roadhouse, our NZBS production, A few nights ago while 2YA was broadcasting Parliament I tried in, vain. to tune in for a programme of md iusic. All I could get was Book» 1 2YC, a talk on the fine arts from 2YX, Book Shop from 3YA and another talk from 3YC. We are algo getting a plethora of plays flow overt the aif, some of them of 4 not very edifying nature. Our radio, like that of your correspondent "S-oon G-how." is now far more silent as a
consequence.
J.R.
R.
(Wellington).
Sir.-Why are you and your contributors so erichanted with The Goon Show? (Two covers, two afticles, several references.) I don’t enjoy it in the least, and I've met only one person who does. Presumably somebody does or it would be taken off. Am I and my friends all out of step? Is it an acquired taste? Mind you, I do think that man plays the mouth organ nicely.
P.
M.
(Hastings).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 877, 25 May 1956, Page 5
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286THE GOON SHOW New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 877, 25 May 1956, Page 5
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