Interesting!

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 467, 4 June 1948, Page 9

Interesting!

\/ HEN a programme is labelled "interesting," it is generally more damning to the commentator who uses the word than it is to the programme itself. To describe a programme as interesting may mean that the commentator couldn’t think of anything else to say, has been too lazy to switch off, was talking to someone at the time and missed the point, or went to sleep in the middle. On the. other hand, it may mean that without being inspired to put enthusiastic pen to paper, or even to exert his critical faculties very much, he found the programme-well, interesting! And that was just my reaction to the BBC series Flying Visit, the description of a flight made by Leonard Cotterel from London to Sydney. This, in my opinion, was all a Sunday afternoon programme ought to be -no great tax on the Sabbatic somnolence, but sufficiently engrossing to keep one from being overcome. In particular I enjoyed the description of Cotterel’s stay in Cairo, and his various impressions of the place, so much so that I was sorry when the plane took off again, and British Overseas Airways took over from Cotterel. Special mention, . too, should be made of the music, which was well worth hearing in ‘itself, quite apart from the atmosphere it created.

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