Choosing Programmes

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 5, 14 August 1936, Page 49

Choosing Programmes

-_> — BS ‘Semper Fidelis (Wellington) writes: I crave your permission to air, through the "Home Forum," ga loud and long "moan." My pet grievance is the breakfast sessions. They follow the same stereotyped lines every morning, I get the opportunity to listen to the first 20 minutes only and these 20 minutes are practically duplicated every day. Why pick on this. band every morning? There are bands better than the Polydor outfit who are deserving of a place on the morning’s programme and would most certainly be warmly appreciated by many others who are in ‘my position. And then again, why pick on such items as "Merry England" Selection and "Clementine" (ugh!) every morning? Surely a couple of modern tunes would not be out of place? After all, the breakfast sessions were intended to help throw off that morning drowsy feeling, and to send one to work feeling happy and buoyant. 7 : oo Might I say a few words in connection with the present. inky battle over . the wrestling announcers. It’s not a nice job, and I would like to see a more -sporting attitude adopted by the arch-critics of the "Home Forum,"