New Programmes in Women's Session
HIS year, as in the past, the National women’s programme from YA and YZ stations will link on Wednesday mornings at 11.0 am. for the major features of the week, documentaries and discussions, and plans for the year show a wide variety of topics which should be of interest and value to housewives. For the time being there will be no more Portraits from Life, but there will be one Picture of a Photographer. This will be of George Chance, of Dunedin, whose early adventures with a camera took him to many parts of the world, including South America. And _ there may be other Pictures from time to time, Let’s Talk It Over will again. be heard on the first Wednesday of each month. In this, a specially selected panel in Auckland will discuss and give advice on questions sént in by listeners. Over the years there have been most interesting topics in this session, and listeners are still sending in questions.
For March, Airini Grennell, of 3YA, has prepared two documentaries on the making of bread, and there will be a programme from Napier on the Hawke’s Bay Art Society’s Museum and Art Gallery. This Art Society is one of the most vigorous in the country, and the museum is a headquarters for activities in art, music and pottery. ‘In April the session will concentrate on the growing problem of road traffic in New Zealand. The first discussion will centre on traffic and the authorities, the second on traffic and the driver, and the third deals with traffic and the pedestrian. These programmes will be prepared in Auckland. Later in the year listeners will hear how the women on Pitcairn Island live. Mr. G. Williams, of the Department of Internal Affairs, recently spent a few weeks there with a tape recorder. A major series late in the year will concern house-building, including the problems of finances and whether to build or buy a house. The
sites and planning of the house will be ciscussed, as will the style, foundations, materials and finishes, and the final furnishing of the new home,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 916, 1 March 1957, Page 7
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