Q: And what is the reason for that?
A: Several reasons... among them that the public is passive to the point of not cooperating with those in charge, and does not write to them about what pleases it, what it longs to hear, or what it discerns some profit for itself in... and this is what most vexes those who run the stations...
Q: But this passivity does not keep the public from showing its displeasure with the radio programs.
A: That is ever our way... we are wreckers more than we are builders... we arm ourselves with attacks, while solutions are no business of ours... it is enough for us to criticize...
Q: That is what makes broadcasting work so very difficult.
A: Naturally; and do not forget the diversity of cultures and tastes — it is the first of the stations' obstacles... especially since the stations of the East cannot keep pace with the world stations by presenting three programs of differing levels at one and the same time... In any case, I come back and affirm that the scope for profiting from the radio is very wide indeed, if only the listener knew how to make use of it; and it is regrettable that the majority believe the radio's mission to be the provision of entertainment before all else... nothing in it concerns them but "Akl al-Balah" and "Ma Alli w-Ultillo"... and other such songs which lack true art and spread in the hearer a spirit of cheap flabbiness...
Q: Yes; and I may not be exaggerating if I say that the talks presented are perhaps heard by no one but the writer himself and the announcer...
A: And a very small minority of the interested.
Q: Let us now leave the side of generalities, that I may ask you a personal question... Do you love the work you do at the Near East Station?
A: This is the work that harmonizes with my nature; and my love of it could have grown had I felt
a shade more response between me and the women listeners than actually obtains...
Q: And that is my own feeling exactly. I believe, Miss Samira, that the nature of your work as supervisor of the Woman's Program allows you to survey most of women's literary production in the Arab countries;
what are your impressions of this activity in general?
A: Let's stay friends, the lady speakers and I... and I hope the listener will understand that what I have arrived at from my work over a short period cannot rightly be called sufficient experience... but that does not prevent my having
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