ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 942, 30 August 1957, Page 11

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Middlebrow (Palmerston North); (1) The mistiming by four minutes of that work in the Classical Hour-where, in spite of your incredulity, it was perfectly well placed and sure to be heard with pleasure by numerous genuine middlebrows-is greatly regretted. (2) The YC programme was designed, six or seven years ago, as one in which listeners may count on hearing that "type of stuff,’ which ( again, lieve it or not) many of them enjoy-as much, at least, as they enjoy Gilbert and Sullivan. Your pleasures seein a little restricted; why seek to restrict theirs? Not Quite Satisfied Yet (Lower Hutt): Because the new series is judged to be one that rates high as a family entertainment and as such best justifies the early placement. D.V.R. (Auckland): She is an Australian who has lived and worked in England for many years. J. G. Ward (Point Chevalier): Yes, so it was; but you over-simplify the problem. In general, all care is taken to maintain the Standards you describe, though "all radio speakers’ include many whom the Service has neither the right nor the opportunity to correct. But some names are so widely known and almost universally used in a contracted or otherwise incorrect form that the correct one will to many sound antic and to some be hardly intelligible. For an analogy, how many Aucklanders call their siburb Punsonby, which is the traditional English ‘ A.A.S. (Levin): Sorry; it arrived just too ate. Sunday Supplements (Tokoroa); Thank you. Will make inquiries. M.M. (Upper Hutt): Thank you. Will pass on, C.R.P, (Auckland): No recorded version of Richard I11 is available. 4 M.M.B. (Wanganui): Correspondence furnishes a constant test. Writers who prefer late placements and writers who prefer early ones are fairly well balanced; but the great majority, who express no preference, may confidently supposed to include the numerous e who go to bed early or late, as they feel inclined, and will eg A they have something to do-such as listening to a programme they want to hear. With them | be many others, who habitually go to bed late. The late listener has just as much right to good listening as the early listener. 2S Mrs Eva onepree (Howick): Will examine possibility. Thank you. F. A. de la Mare (Eastbourne): Your letter has appeared elsewhere. Disappointed (Hamilton): Surely Pb 2 watch kept bad time? First half, 8.5 to 8.45; interval, 8.45 to 9,0; concert ended just before 10.0. More than an hour and a half is a reat deal more than "a brief hour or a little onger. (Wellington): The rule, known and accepted by all churches, is that if an evening service is not completed by,8.0 the broadcast may be cut at once; and there is often no alternative to cutting it. In Christchurch, however, on the occasion you mention, the broadcast was cut in the mistaken (but not inexplicable) belief that the service had ended. Listener (W i): "Trolley. Bus," by Charles Williams, played by Queen's Hall Light Orchestra, conducted by the composer.