Sir-I read with interest the letter of "British Visitor" in this week’s Listener asking that the BBC "Brains Trust" be restored to the programme, and I noted your retort, which to me sounded childish and petulant. Whether or not the Brains Trust had finally disappeared from the programme I don't know, and I don’t agree with "British Visitor" that the substitutes provided by the NBS are poor ones. I do however support "British Visitor" and others of like mind in asking that the Brains Trust be restored as soon as possible. I think the feature is an excellent one, and to my mind we need more of this kind of thing. There is plenty of both wit and humour, and it is interesting to hear the views of people who are well known, and, some of them, famous. Finally, it is at times an instruction in English diction and pronunciation, Aren’t. we New Zealanders big enough to learn?
MORE IMPUDENCE
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 252, 21 April 1944, Page 3
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161Untitled New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 252, 21 April 1944, Page 3
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