Workers' Educational Association Talks

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 36, 20 March 1931, Page 6

Workers' Educational Association Talks

Arranged for ITYA gw . A SERIES of twelve fortnightly talks on "Questions of the Day" ‘will be broadcast from 1YA, beginning Tuesday, March 24, at 740 p.m. The speaker will be Mr. N. M. Richmond, B.A., Director of the W.H.A. in Auckland. ° . The talks will be in two series of six each, and listeners who are interested will be supplied with fairly full notes at a small charge. The talk on March 24 will be introductory, and those which follow will deal with the topics of democracy, unemployment, civilisation in America, art in everyday life, rationalisation of industry, thus completing the first series. Listeners who find the first talk interesting should write to the Auckland office of the W.E.A., Old Gramma School, Symonds Street, for tion about the series as a whole, AK last year, facilities will be provided for the formation of discussion groups among listeners on the basis of the notes that will be issued. The first talk will take a wide sweep, mentioning briefly some of the problems of to-day in the fields of economics, politics, art, and civilisation generally, and will inquire into the rea- gons why progress appears to be so low. ° It. will suggest that many. of our social habits and institutions have not changed sufficiently in response iv oux changed environment, and _ that many vital instincts which used _ to find expression in these institutions are now in danger of suppression. WA