ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 884, 13 July 1956, Page 5

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

E.J.B, (Motueka): Many thanks. A copy has already been sent. M.F.P. (Wigram): Rights in The Dark Tower were extended by the BBC to six years but have now expired: E. P. du Fresne (Waipukurau): You have not missed a list. See page 17. J. Black (Auckland): Thanks for offer. A copy has already been sent. Robinson Crusoe (Inglewood): . Possibly later, but no definite date. E.M.W. (Te Aroha): Cecil Hull. P.R. (Wellington): They have already been broadcast twice, and no early repetition is likely. But they will be broadcast later. Mrs. L. Macdonald (Dunedin): ‘Soeur Monique,"’ by Francois Couperin. L.B. (Hamilton): A. few years ago, no complaint was more frequent-and none, perhaps, was better justified-than that the YA stations, said to be playing dinner music becween 6.0. and 7.0 p-m., in fact, had hardly time to play any, since weather, news, stock reports, newsreel, and so forth, kept on breaking in. For this good and continuing reason, the function of providing an unbroken hour’s light music was allotted to the YC stations, at the convenient period when they were repowered and the new YC programme type was developed; and that is why, as has previously been explained, the YC stations assume their own and characteristic evening programme function at 7.0. Since then, the flow of complaints from listeners who wanted an hour’s continuous dinner music has entirely ceased. The new complaint-that this or that YC Station has given up playing music to the complainant's taste, between 6.0: and 7.0, and taken to playing nothing but light musicarises from the fact that progr pl s have sometimes forgotten the six-year-old definition of the 6.0 to 7.0 type and selected music more suitable for the YC evening programme. Naturally, the listener who prefers that is displeased; and the occasion is rfegretted. But there ate no grounds for the charge that a new policy has ily been enforced, taking away ariie: : mme..of} good music a luting anher, unwanted and inferior: D. M. Gifford (Remuera): (1) The type was defined-for a good and continvirig reason -six years ago. (2) Letters of protest are pew ignored. See also, reply to L.B. (Hamton).