RADIO
OUR radio is not, in general, very seasonable. True, some popular half-hours take a summer vacation, but that is a negative season- ability. For the most part the programmes for the first week in December bear a strange resemblance to the programmes for the last week in July. It is endearingly English. Sunshine or snow, we have roast beef, for Sunday lunch—and before lunch, week in, week out, The Critics. The gentleman's seventeenth-century love in her attire did show her wit : "For every season she hath dressings fit, For winter, spring and summer." Not so, in general, the B.B.C. Wherefore I salute one of the rare seasonable attempts of the B.B.C., an innovation called Hullo Children ! Here is a programme that really knows what time it is—it is summer—and what audience it wishes to reach—the young. (Not all programmes are so sure of themselves ; many are let loose at hazard, hors'd upon the sightless couriers of the air, in the vague hope of being blown into every car.) For July and August, and from Monday to Friday each week, the younger listeners are to have a daily half-hour to themselves.
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