Light Music

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 3, 24 July 1936, Page 49

Light Music

Surfeited" (Mangapehi) writes: Ag a result of, to my mind, the unentertain.ing programmes broadcast from the national stations during the evenings, I have become a very discontented person. For the past three months I have been off work, and have had the pleasure of listening to the breakfast session, the lunch music and the selected recordings presented during the afternoon; and whac a pleasure it is to listen to such bright and entertaining programmes after I have been surfeited with violins and screeching sopranos every night for the past few years! What is there to prevent some of the recordings played during the day sessions from being presented at night when the majority of people have the opportunity of listening to the radio for a few hours? Some time ago the Broadcasting, Board, which has since been given its "running shoes," decided to allot one night of the week to a programme of. light music. Each station should present this feature

on a different night. This would mean that the majority of listeners would have four nights a week of enjoyable entertainment instead of one, as they now have.