1 JULY 1955, Page 20

I WAS LISTENING to 'Housewives' Choice' last week when I

heard the man who sends those rather embarrassing messages that the housewives of this country seem to like addressing to each other over the air say that he was now going td play an eighteenth-century song which 'compares favourably with most present-day songs.' The song to which he gave this extravagant build-up turned out to be `Lit ci daretn la mono' from Don