Viewers’ Views

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32253, 23 March 1970, Page 3

Viewers’ Views

Letters on television topics/ are subject to the rules apply-ii ing to general correspondence. L GRANDSTAND It is unfortunate that your ; television critic has no interest in motor racing, as , evident in the remarks con- i tained in “The Press” of i March 18 concerning the ; “Grandstand” programme on , Monday evening. The inter-1 view with the racing ; driver, whose name your critic did not catch, was with Graeme Lawrence, the 1 winner of the Tasman cham- ] pionship series of interna- ' tional races. This was an 1 excellent achievement for a resident New Zealand driver against the opposition of ] overseas drivers contesting this important Australasian championship. Motor racing ' has a very wide following of; supporters who are extremely!’ interested in coverage by various news media of the ] sport. The “Grandstand" tele-] vision team was to be con-!; gratulated on the coverage of. last Sunday’s Ruapuna Park!

race meeting which was held l , in trying weather conditions. —T. David Craig, General 1 Secretary, Canterbury Car Club. [Pandora denies a lack of interest in motor racing, but believes motor sports enjoy an unwarranted monopoly of the “Grandstand" programme time.] I couldn’t agree more heartily • with your critic’s

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2.00: Headline news. 2.03: The Frost Report—On Love (Repeat). 2.29: The Virginian—“ First To Thine Own Self.” 3.40: Cameron Country—“ The last of the Gun Boats” I (Repeat). 4.25: Filopat and Patafil. 4.29: Casper the Friendly Ghost. 4.49: Quick Draw McGraw. 5.13: Adventures of Gulliver—cartoon. 5.35: Headline news, weather. 5.37: Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor. 5.55: Family Affair—“ Holiday in Spain.” 6.20: Animal People—Gerald Durrell. 6.45: Maths And Meaning (1). 7.00: Network news. 7.15:. Weather. The South Tonight. ; 7.35: The Carol Burnett Show (Sid Cesare and Ella ] Fitzgerald). 8.24: Grandstand. 8.49: Scobie in September (4). 9.14: Newsbrief. 9.16: The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten (7), j “The March of Victory.” 10.07: Vendetta—“ The Lullaby Man." 11.02: Late news, weather.

NATIONAL LINK (Including SYA, Cnrlstcnurcn <690 Kilocycles); 2YA. Welling ton (570 Kilocycles): AYA. Dunedin (780 Kilocycles): and 3VZ Greymouth (920 Kilocycles).! I 7.0 p.m.: N.Z.B.C. Sporting [Service. 7.3: The Ames Brothers. 7.30: From Days of Yore. 8.0: Rhythm on Record.( 8.30: Weather and News. 9.0: I Royal Visit Report. 9.10: One; Evening In Late Autumn. 110.0: The Tuneful Twenties, i 10.30: N.Z.B.C. News, Com[ment, Weather. 10.45: i Voices in the Night. 11.0: 8.8. C. News and Commenitary. 11.15: All Night National Programme. 12.6 [a.m.: The Clitheroe Kid. 1.30: : Those Were the Days. 3.3: .Sing It Again. 3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (960 kilocycles) 7.0 p.m.: Ellen Armitage (organ of St Mary’s, Merivale, Christchurch), Les Corps glorieux, Nos. 5, 6 and 7 (Messiaen). 7.18: Janet Baker (contralto). London (Symphony Orchestra under] Sir John Barbirolli—Seai (Pictures, Op. 37 (Elgar). 7.42:1 Atoms and Atomic Energy ! 7.55: Helsinki’s Festival! Swedish Radio Symphony under Sergiu Celibidache] Hans Leygraf (piano)—l Chamber Concerto for piano. I winds and percussion (Karl-'

(reference to the passion of jthe "Grandstand” programme ] organisers for motor-cycle [and motor-car sport. Last ’week’s programme, typically, spent far too much time on them. There had been a cricket test in Christchurch’ the previous week-end, and those of us who could not get to Lancaster Park would have enjoyed a few moments of highlights from that.— FAIR PLAY Although I too became heartily tired at the preoccupation of the “Grandstand” programme with motor-cars, motor-cycles and cycles, I may be a little more generous than Pandora because 1 expect that if such attention was not warranted someone would have told the producers so long before now. In I a live and let live attitude, I j simply regard “Grandstand” as I do “Peyton Place” and one or two other programmes iwhich mean nothing to me,! although I have been interested in sport all my life.— ] SWEET REASON

The American I If “Buster” would take time to check the programmes, he or she would find that last week only about ’ Hi hours out of 37 hours of ! evening screening time (after 1 6 p.m.) were British. Apart from the news and a few! local programmes, the rest are American unfortunately.—TOP HEAVY IN WHOSE FAVOUR?

birger Blomdahl); The Firebird (Stravinsky). 8.38: Alexander Young (tenor). Elizabeth Vaughan (soprano), Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Academy of St Martin -in - the - Fields under David Willcocks— Chandos Anthem: Let God Arise (Handel). 9.1: Michel Cuvit (trumpet), Suisse 'Romande Orchestra under 'Ernest Ansermet—Trumpet Concerto in E flat (Hummel) 9.18: 1969 Unesco Rostrum of Composers: Prelude foi orchestra (Teizo Matsu mura); Inane, monologue fo soprano and orchestra (Aribert Reimann). 10.3 Beaux Arts Trio—Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49 (Mendelssohn). 10.30: History of 18th Century Italic Music (Series 2). (1) The I Serious Melodrama. Music by ,[Feo, Traetta. Vinci. 3ZB, CHRISTCHURCH [ (1100 kilocycles) 7.2 p.m.: Trotting Informai tion. 8.2: Take It From Here • 9.2: Frontline for Students 1110.30: New Sounds. : 3ZM, CHRISTCHURCH J (1400 kilocycles) '■ 7.0 p.m.: Popular Pianos. .7.30: Canterbury Requests. -18.30: Soul Coaxing. 9.0: The .[Brothers Four. 10.0: From •I the Hot 100.