People to People
HE most striking of the BBC recorded programmes now being broadcast by the Christchurch stations is Transatlantic Call, produced jointly by BBC and Columbia; a highly informal series aimed at presenting various aspects of British life to America in the voices of the people themselves. This is (continued on next page) |
(continued from previous page) magnificently done, often with outstanding naturainess, and even when self-con-sciousness occurs it contrives somehow to heighten sincerity. The only doubtful element is the choice of subject. There is no attempt at prettification-the two_ numbers dealing with the East End, for instance, did not conceal the facts that street merchants lived too hard a life, that housing conditions were bad, or that bombing invelved other things than heroic facetiousness. But the BBC tends to concentrate on those traditional parts of Britain-old-world villages and oldfashioned Cockneyism of the costermonger and music hall sort-to the exclusion of much else. Are we likely to hear about the Black Country, for example, or the new industrial areas?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 287, 22 December 1944, Page 8
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170People to People New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 287, 22 December 1944, Page 8
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