Not Truly Rural
SHOULD have suspected, when I tuned in to Donald McCullough’s talk on The English Countryside (2YA, Thursday morning, July 1), that all those years of brainstrusting might have made Mr. McCullough more adept at talking about a subject than on it. Certainly there was very little of the English Countryside Proper in Mr. McCullough’s talk, but there was, on the other hand, a lot of good stuff I would have been loth to miss, like his account of
the objects of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, and the work of the National Trust. He also whets my appetite for a glimpse of the Countryman series of County Maps, which have been in preparation durirg and since the war but which, like our own Centennial Atlas, has been a long time in the making. The same evening I heard Mr. McCullough again, giving a talk on Fougasse,; an Artist at War, and here although he was more closely confined by his subject (friendship apparently imposes more obligations than does mere affection), he showed that even the comparatively serious biographical sketch can be gracefully and informally ‘conveyed to the radio audience. Mr. McCullough has quintessentially the chairside manner of the practised radio speaker-no matter how well prepared, he always appears to be a man’ without a script. >
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 8
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221Not Truly Rural New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 8
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