Here's What a Plain Person Likes

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 12, 29 September 1933, Page 14

Here's What a Plain Person Likes

To the Editor. Sir-So many correspondents have given their views as to how the authorities should arrange the broadcast programmes, that perhaps the subject is being worn threadbare. However, as I believe the New Zealand Broadcasting Board is interested in knowing what folks think, I venture to say just what a plain person likes, that person being myself. I like any classical musie with a tune in it, as, for instance, most of Mendelssohn, especially the "Songs Without Words," and and of the other great composers. I don’t like these interminable concertos. They leave me cold, and remind me of the race in "Alice in Wonderland." Start when you like and stop when you like, and nobody will know the flifference. I suppose there are really people who like this sort of thing, and a

lot more who say they do, but I think 90 per cent. neither! like nor understand it, and don’t want to, and I’m one of them. Give me "The Moonlight Sonata," and

"Softly Awakes My Heart," and suchlike, I don’t like tripe like "Young and Healthy," at least, with words, though it does very well for dancing to. I enjoy hearing Jimmy Rogers singing "The Yodelling Cowboy," as he is unique in his own line. I like community singing, wrestling matches, football, and so forth, and I like to hear Mr. H. Temple White play the organ. To my mind we don’t hear enough of Mr. Will Bishop; but perhaps he is wise not to make himself too cheap. I thoroughly enjoy the. talks by Dr. Guy H. Scholefield, as much for. his delightfully conversational style as for his instructive matter. ‘There are, of course, many other speakers of interest, who invariably claim my attention. I like the programmes arranged by Mr. Strachan, of Z2YA, and some of the recent ones have been "out of the box," and those arranged by Mr. Karl Atkinson are always worth listening toe. You will see, Mr. Hditor, that I am not hard to please, and on the whole I think all stations, both A and B, make great efforts to please every section. If one does not like one programme there is always plenty of choice elsewhere. If a listener’s set will only "get" 2YA, he has no right to kick because they don’t put on his kind of pro gramme every day. His remedy is a better set. It’s a poor set nowadays that won’t get all the YA’s and most of the Australian national stations, and surely that ought to provide sufficient. choice for the most confirmed grouser. It is an impossibility to get the best from a set unless one takes the "Radio Record." Otherwise it is just hit or miss, and those who aren’t subscribers (and I know some) don’t know what they miss.-I am. ete..

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