Few Foreign Serials
CORRESPONDENT wrote to us recently saying that he thought too many foreign serials were being offered to listeners by the NZBS. Why, :he asked, were there not more British Empire products instead of plays and serials from the United States?) There was only one way to answer his query, so we took a week’s programmes, covering all the NZBS stations, and counted the serials. We got the surprising total of 82. Then we looked up their countries of origin. Of the 82, by far the greatest proportion came from Australia -67 all told. There were four (the total number available at the time) from the BBC; six. were NZBS productions, made in New Zealand, and only five originated in the United States of America. Some of the Australian radio plays are based on American stories, and apparently the producers have taken care to cast players with American accents, thus probably accounting for our correspondent’s belief that the recordings were of American manufacture,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 389, 6 December 1946, Unnumbered Page
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165Few Foreign Serials New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 389, 6 December 1946, Unnumbered Page
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