ANNOUNCERS’ VOICES
Sir-I chanced to listen to the Daventry News at 12.30 p.m. last Saturday. The impression received was that at last announcing has taken a turn for the better. However, this pleasant anticipation was not fulfilled, for there immediately followed the irritating "Wan Way Aeaeae" from the local station, One does not wish that our announcers should cultivate the condescending cadences of the gentlemen of the biBBy c, or even that our information should be presented in vaudeville fashion. But presentation of local news in accents similar to those of the 12.30 p.m. Empire announcer, or of our own too-rarely-heard National Director, would be a decided improvement in a field where the room for it is limitless. In spite of your would-be devastating footnote to the reasonable requests of H. Francis (19/7/40), listeners have a right not to have inflicted on them an official voice which sounds as though its owner is either a lisping infant or a male impersonator.
D
BAKER
(Mt. Roskill).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 5
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165ANNOUNCERS’ VOICES New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 5
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