"THINKERS' SESSION"
EO FOWLER’S " Thinkers’ Session" is proging a popular 4ZB feature. Here’s how the idea for the session developed: A few 4ZB personalities were sitting round a comfortable fire one evening when someone decided that they should have a worthwhile discussion on the sort of life that was worth living. Each person was given a piece of paper and pencil and told to write down five things that made life worth living. The lists were then compared and it was found that each one was a miniature character portrait of the person who made it, This proved so interesting that Leo Fowler decided..to carry the idea a bit further. He went round all the announcers and got them to do the same, and then he got the idea of developing the idea into a session for the air.
In the first session he asked listeners to write in, giving their ideas of the five things thar, to them, made life worth living. From these entries he selected the most interesting and read them over the air together with a short character analysis. In following sessions he asked listeners to discuss the following problems: The five things one would take if one was being left on a desert island. The five historical characters whom you. would like to bring back ‘to life. And if you were given a million pounds what five things would you do with it. At the moment Leo is busy thinking out further suggestions: in order to keep the session ‘as ‘popular and interesting as it is at present.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 54, 5 July 1940, Page 47
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