Not For Listening To
HE other morning I listened to the National breakfast session for fifty minutes. I mean I Jistened to it, I was reminded nostalgically of the early radio days when the greater part of the programme was listed as "Gramophone records," and anything might turn up. Not quite anything turns up in the breakfast session, but as I listened to Jimmy
Shand sandwiched between Joni James and Eddie Fisher, followed by Isaac Stern and Eileen Joyce, I wondered if any principle guided the choice except that of something for everybody. And the trouble with that principle is that no such person as Everybody listens to the radio. Then it dawned on me that the breakfast session isn’t meant to be listened to at all, except for the time announcements. If this is so the programme organisers are not entirely to be blamed for it, It’s obvious that many, even, of the people who write to The Listener complaining of the musical programmes want something congenial not to listen to, something to drown out less pleasing sounds from the children, the street and the neighbours, to ward off a still more disturbing silence. But whether the NZBS ought to give in and cater so freely for non-listeners, even at this time of day, is another matter.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 899, 26 October 1956, Page 17
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220Not For Listening To New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 899, 26 October 1956, Page 17
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