The Void
T’S not so long since a radio programme which lasted as long as half an hour was unusual. Nowadays even the ZBs have their occasional hour-
long. sessions; and the YCs are full of them and of even longer ones. What puzzles me is how the announcer fills in the time between announcing a World Theatre play at nine and breaking it to us that it is over at 11. I’ve been trying to picture. Does he go for a long walk? Does he bake the scones for the next day’s staff morning tea? Does he knit, or write ten-page love letters, or dust the microphones, or gossip with an equally bored technician, or play chess with him, or patience with himself, or learn Esperanto, or practice his vowels, or read Proust, or do crosswords, or embroidery or calisthenics or yogi, or flirt with the receptionist, or scratch his back, or hypnotise himself watching goldfish swimming in an aquarium, or cacti growing in a pot, or the turntable revolving 33 and a third times evéry minute? Does he, perhaps, even listen to the play? I don’t really want to know, of course. The world is poorer for every mystery which is elucidated. ee ee} Oe ae 9 ee ae I
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 26
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218The Void New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 26
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