Distaff Side

New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 988, 25 July 1958, Page 25

Distaff Side

OMEN listeners to 1YA’s Feminine Viewpoint can hardly complain that their intelligences are under-rated by the material offered there. Interviews and commentaries keep them posted with the letest happenings in art and the theatre (recent interviews during rehearsals of White Horse Inn were especially good in giving the "feel" of the production). And the talks especially are calculated to keep listeners’ minds on the stretch. Helen Stirling describing her pedagogical experiences in Ethiopia, Primrose Essame on Tur-

key and Rillda Gorrie analysing conditions in Lebanon indicate the globe-trot-ting nature of the material-all, I thought, of a very high standard. I feel impelled often to take issue with Marie Griffin’s talks on parent-child relationships, if only because, like so many of their kind, they seem too often based upon conditions prevailing in miniscule families, where mothers have little else to do but dream up psychological problems around their one or two, but nevertheless she does talk a good deal of healthy common sense. All: of these in a couple of days should be sufficient to justify my regarding Feminine Viewpoint as one of the best trawling-grounds on the air for interesting talks-of far from exclusively feminine appeal.

J.C.

R.