J. B. Priestley To Visit Australia
B. PRIESTLEY will arrive in Australia early this year at the invitation of the Commonwealth Government. He is already. known to listeners in this part of the world as one of the most influential broadcasters in the English language. "The secret of Priestley’s success probabiy lies in the fact that he has caught the idiom of the man in the street more completely than any other professional broadcaster,’ says the "ABC Weekly" in making this announcement. "He can speak as and for the common man without striking a false note of patronage or artificiality. Overseas listeners accept him and his material as typically British." In his introduction to a reprint of his "Postscripts"’ he outlines his guiding theory about broadcasting: "What really holds the attention ot most decent people is a genuine sharing of feelings and views on the part of the broadcaster. "He must talk as if he were among serious friends, and not as if he had suddenly been appointed head of an infants’ school. People recognise in an instant when something that is at
least trying to be real and true is being said to them." ‘ W. E. Williams, one of the BBC’s "Critics on the Hearth," says of Priestley’s radio technique: "His talks are designed and put together for a purpose which by the end ot 10 minutes is resoundingly revealed."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 290, 12 January 1945, Page 13
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