TROUBLES OF THE BROADCASTER
"At first I used to get dreadfully worried by letters that came to me aft.er my hroadcasts," writes Leonard Henry in his hook " My Laugh Story." " The ones that said nice things of course I revelled in, but always there was a proportion of critical missives, some of them eouehed in such hard terms that I used to be thoroughly seared lest anybody in authority at the B.B.C. should be receiving similar communieations. Fortunately I then talked things over with a few friends and found that they had almost exactly the same experience. As Tommy Handley said: 'You can't please everybody — especially on the wireless. In a hall you can get some of them laughing, and then the others will follow suit. But when you're dealing with millions of loudspeakers in millions of diJJerent homes, it is obvious that some of the people either won't like your kind of humour or will he in the wrong mood to receive it. Out of those a few wijj. writ^^uSive [ J is> .200(1 upseitipg yourself ^ut .... ' ^ ' '-it,'. - •V-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 141, 1 July 1937, Page 4
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179TROUBLES OF THE BROADCASTER Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 141, 1 July 1937, Page 4
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