"ALL IN THE DAY'S WORK"
Sir,-I have been reading your paper for years-in fact, I still find myself calling it the Radio Record. I pay my taxes, shrug off the broadcasting losses, and continue to buy The Listener. Not that I want it fer any practical purpose, such as. studying forthcoming programmes. Oh, no-who wants to know that Doctor Paul will be on as usual? No-what has caused me to cling to your publication for so long has been its faint flavour of independence and originality. Someone once said it was the last refuge of literature in New Zealand, and maybe this has been so. I have liked the original slant of some of the editorials, I like "Sundowner," and I read the letters. I even felt sorry for you when someone attacked "Someone’s Always Dying." But, really, even the worm must turn. Having just had the misfortune to read "All in the Day’s Work" (September 27), I feel that if your paper is the last refuge of literature, then perhaps you had better abandon it the way all other New Zealand periodicals have. As a favour to an old supporter, how about telling me what it is supposed to be all about? If, as I suspect, it is intended to be some sort of a satire on female fashions, all I can suggest is that it was a wicked waste of a good drawing. Mr Muggeridge seems to have failed to change Punch, and I fear that you, too, should not attempt to drive your taxpayer supporters too far. How about devoting just a little of your space, now and then, to the common uncultivated listener’s complaints about the way his wishes and tastes are ignored in programmes generally? What could he listen to, for example, at 8.0 p.m. any
Friday?
ILLITERATE
(Tuakau). |
(Just to keep the record straight: The Listener takes nothing from’ taxpayers.-Ed. )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 949, 18 October 1957, Page 31
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316"ALL IN THE DAY'S WORK" New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 949, 18 October 1957, Page 31
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