Family violence comes into the open

Press, 3 June 1981, Page 18

Family violence comes into the open

Spouse bashing, abused children anti battered parents are topics that are now being dragged into the open. One of the pioneers in the Women’s Refuge movement is Erin Pizzey. Here in a programme called evocatively. "Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear." Erin Pizzey talks in London to David Delany for Radio New Zealand about the causes o£ wife bashing. She also tells of the inadequacy of legal remedies and the reasons for forming the women's refuge movement. Concert. 9.00 tonight. London Prom From a 8.8. C. Henry Wooil Prom in London during the 1979 season comes a programme of music by Tippett, Vaughan Williams, Debussy

and Ravel. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the 8.8. C. Symphony and they are joineii by the 8.8. C. Singers with the conductor. John Poole, and the organist. Stephen Cleobury. Tippett’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis is followed by the Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor. Then the Debussy offering is the Prelude "A lapres-midi dune iaune. The final concert work is Ravel’s La Valse. Concert. 8 p.m. Marriage The final in the Radio New Zealand series on marriage and separation is called "Marriage Enrichment” (National. at 10.30 this morning.) Today we met grandparents. Doreen and Geoff. After 27 years of happy marriage and

three children of their own they say their- marriage is better than ever. Radio play "Hark. Hark the Harp” is a plav bv Roger Hall (National. 8.45 pan.) Rudolph, a rather "alternative" harpist arrives at an insular New Zealand town and disrupts the orchestra, town council and people, with his antics. Pansy is the pretentious patron of the arts in this town. She is Rudolphs champion through these difficult times, but after a rather unfortunate incident, she reluctantly concedes that he and the community will never be partners.

Listening