RADIO PROGRAMMES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 177, 28 July 1934, Page 8

RADIO PROGRAMMES.

A WORD FOR IYA.

(To tie Editor.)

So much destructive criticism i s levelled at the IYA programmes that I should like to ■sound a note of praise and express my appr». ciation of the very excellent programme* I have heard. The chief complaint appears to be that there is a preponderance of recorded items and a lack of what is loosely terined "flesh and blood" programmes. The complainants, however, might remember that these recorded items are the world's best offerings and the local supply , of "flesh, and blood" artists of the highest quality is very limited. To put inferior local talent" beside- first-clage recordings would be to draw too cruel a comparison and would render the "local talent" and IYA, too, a target for the scorn of. the grumblers. IYA does its best to cater for all tastes, and, in my opinion, is to be con°tatulated on the- scope and quality of its offerings" If I might venture a suggestion, 'however it is that the programmes might be pleasantly varied by interspersing the spoken items throughout the musical numbers. On Thure. day evening we had a most delightful «r O . gramme, but I noticed that the spoken items were all grouped together in one section, after which we had a period of unbroken music.' ISABEL M. CLUETT. '