Eavesdroppers' Session
T is difficult to write a good letter if it is addressed to more than one person. Letters that begin "Dear folks at home," or those travelogues written to circulate through a vast acquaintance, are
usually models of dullness and platitude, and this is behind the failure of many tadio talks. The speaker perhaps tries to include every possible listener and in so doing loses the art of holding any of them. Or he begins his series with a special group in mind-say for instance that it is children-and the next day some greybeard friends meeting him in the street express enjoyment of his talk; after that he cannot forget the eavesdroppers, tries to include them, and the magic is gone. For this reason I have for months restrained myself from mentioning the pleasure with which many of us listen to Mr. Jenner, of Christchurch, who gives talks on Music .Appreciation in the Broadcasts to Schools sessions at 1.30. It is only because I wish this pleasure to be more widely shared that I mention it now, and we will just have to trust Mr. Jenner to continue to keep the children firmly in his mind and the rest of us clean out of it.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 331, 26 October 1945, Page 9
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207Eavesdroppers' Session New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 331, 26 October 1945, Page 9
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