BRAINS TRUST BACK
HAS man’s character changed as much as his clothes? AS civilisation advances, does art decline? WHAT are the eternal verities? WITH whom would you like to dine at your "journey’s end?" HESE questions will be put by Questionmaster S. C. Roberts in the first of a new series of BBC Brains Trust sessions which will begin at 1YA at 7.47 p.m. on Monday, December 8. After an absence of over a year, the reappearance of the Brains Trust is likely to be warmly greeted by its many devotees here. In Britain the Brains Truat achieved a popularity which had previously been accorded only to music hall turns, and when- the session was introduced to New Zealand here too the names of the more frequent speakers became household words and their idiosyncracies well known, the witticisms which fell from their lips were
many times repeated, and the discussions they started often were continued at gatherings round a cup of tea or a glass of beer. " The new series, which will be heard from Southern stations later, will be on the air weekly for three months. To
answer the questions in the first broadcast will be the editor and author, Kingsley Martin; the conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent; the politician, Lord Samuel; the head of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Leigh Ashton; and the headmaster of Westminster School, John T. Christie. Donald McCullough, who will be remembered keeping a friendly rein on discussions in the previous series, will return as questionmaster in the second broadcast with half a dozen questions ranging from "What is Glamour?" to "Is the Day of Small Nations Past?" Other sessions also contain a wide variety of topics from serious political questions such as "Do we think there is any more hope for the United Nations than there was for the League of Nations?" to posers allowing for a good deal of flippancy in the replies, an early example of which is "Is addiction to oratory a sign of decadence?" Lieutenant-Commander R. T. Gould, who was one of the best known speakers in the previous series, will be heard again in the fourth broadcast, while others who will be making an appearance early in ‘the new series include Bertrand Russell, Julian Huxley, Robeft Boothby, M.P., Professor E..N. da C. Andrade (physicist), Barbara Ward (editor), and Mrs.» M. A. Hamilton (novelist). ‘
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 441, 5 December 1947, Page 19
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