BREAKING WITH TRADITION

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 18, 9 November 1934, Page 5

BREAKING WITH TRADITION

E announce to-day that the New Zealand Broadcasting Board. is considering a revised programme schedule, which will probably be brought into operation early in the New Year. Just what the revisions will be we have no idea, but it is known that the board has kept a close watch on public reactions to. certain features presented during the year, and the:schedule will be remodelled with due consideration for these facts. It has been apparent to regular listeners that the talks -to take one instance-have branched ‘out into a wider field. They have escaped from the lingering influence of the old-fashioned spoken lecture, with. its traditions of length, dullness and remoteness. from everyday life. As their experience grows, speakers‘ have come to realise that they are not speaking to a hall full of people who, willingly or unwillingly, have ‘paid their silver coin for admission, but to a man an his family at their fireside, and the wise ones have shaped. their material accordingly. The B.B.C., in drawing. up a new schedule, has announced some interesting titles for talks--‘*‘Science in the Making," "‘How I Keep House," "Life As I See It," "Theatre and Cinema," and "Js That the Law?"