Good Talks
[LISTENERS to 2YA at 7.15 have been fortunate lately. Following Dr. Money’s excellent talks on Peru, David Tombs has begun his series on presentday Germany, and on Fridays we have H. R. G. Jefferson’s talks on the London Popular Press. Then on a recent Thursday we had another of J. C. Reid’s irrepressible By-Paths of Literature. J. C. Reid is a delightful cicerone, his only fault perhaps being -a slight tendency to reach the 15-minute mark slightly ahead of his eager flock, to indicate with a nonchalant wave of the hand some curiosity worthy of his audience’s eager study and hurry them on to: another equally worthy, with a faint suggestion of apology in his »manner for assuming that what is well known to him may not be equally well known to them. A nice change, I must confess, from the slightly heavier hand that usually steers ‘the radio audience through Parnassian groves,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 449, 30 January 1948, Page 8
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155Good Talks New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 449, 30 January 1948, Page 8
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