Inconsiderate Listeners
THE playing of two gramophone records a! the same time began a short programme recently broadcast by the BBC. Devised as a protest against, the loudspeaker nuisance, the programme eloquently illustrated how completely the pence of: a neighbourhood can'he shattered by indiscriminate use of a loudspeaker. The listener whose idea of listening is to keep his set switched on at the maximum volume throughout the broadcasting day; those who set their volume controls at maximum whenever dance music, or a talk, or ".Music Hall" is being broadcast; and —worst of all—inconsiderate listeners who tune from station to station at 10second intervals, heard vivid examples of the chaos that their selfishness creates. This "straight talk" to the inconsiderate was not broadcast, to the Empire—but that. . was not because every overseas listener is guiltless of 'disturbing his neighbour's peace. Them aro, it is feared, quite a number who assume the right, to choose a neighbour's listening for him, forgetting that excessive volume is unmannerly. Oscillation is a Similar breach Of the listener's good manners.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 11
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174Inconsiderate Listeners Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 11
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