THEY'RE NOT FAST, REALLY
Sir-Your correspondent E. P. Hull grumbles about the speed of London announcers’ voices. Perhaps he is not used to English voices. Strange tongues always sound fast until we are familiar with them. I have been carefully listening to the speed of the 6.15p.m. news, which is the news sent out especially for the Pacific, and can find no 500 miles per hour about it. Because our radio gives us relays of news all day long, it does not mean
that England directs the lot at us. The head-line news has an appearance of speed, but that is directed to America. However, I recommend E. P. Hull to listen to talks telling us how these same announcers dodge from shelter to shelter on their way to the studio often wondering whether, when they reach home again, home and family will be in the same condition as it was left, and then re-read his little letter in The Listener of November 15, and afterwards turn to page 28 and stare hard for a few minutes at the bottom right hand picture, and just think a bit. Then, I am sure, he will admit that all criticism of announcers’ voices might be left for less strenuous times.
D.M.G.
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Page 4
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210THEY'RE NOT FAST, REALLY New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Page 4
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