B.B.C. BROADCASTS
SIR,—As the B.B.C. presumably tries to cater for all sorts and conditions when drawing up programmes, I wonder what section of the community the " up in the morning early " exercises are provided for? In these days, when Mr. Bevin has decreed a 47-hour-week for all able-bodied people, whether employed in factory or office, I find it hard to believe that any worker has the time, even if he or she has the energy, to devote to physical exercises for twenty minutes from 7.3o each morning, CO be followed, naturally, by a bath, or a shower, and breakfast. From my contacts with people in works and offices, I gather that most of them are at, or about to leave home for, their various occupations, by 8 a.m.- and I imagine that the majority of other " workers " leave home soon after that hour—others do not count. Of course we can switch off the " Home Service " and get on to the " Forces " programme at that hour— but what a dismal alternative under the misleading title of " Rhythm on Records ": either a heartbroken crooner bewailing his love, or a noise like a children's party after a distribution of toy trumpets and drums. Could not the B.B.C. be persuaded, through your columns, to give us some cheerful marches and'waltzes to start the day with?—Yours faith- fully, G. F. BENNErr. 35 Sandon Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
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