CHURCH BROADCASTS.
Sir,- -"Eglise," in your issue of July 16, referring to broadcast _ servi observes that "it is both pleasurable arid profitable to feel part of the unseen congregation." Unfortunately, the majority of listeners do not share with him that desirable experience. In fact, because the broadcast services are not designed for. broadcasting the majority of people do not find them convincing. The listerier is not analytical. He doesn’t inquire deeply into the art of broadcasting, but he knows whether or not a broadcast is good and has an easy remedy for a bad one. It looks as though we have failed to see that a very different technique is required to bring church worship to a radio congre-gation-a technique as different from that of the usual service asthe radio play is from the stage play, and the Correspondence School session from the classroom lesson. Imagine how much a pupil would learn from the _ relayed broadcast of a lesson given in a city
schoolroom, complete with the usual background noises. The Education Department, instead of setting up a microphone in a geography class, put their experts to work on the problem and the result is a broadcast of school lessons so efficient and convincing that its audience is by no means confined to children. The first thing that should disappear from Church broadcasts is the congregation. The clergymen and their choir and organists (if these latter have sufficient ability for the task) are the only people required.
R. I.
PHILPOT
(Dunedin).
(Abridged. Ed: )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 476, 6 August 1948, Page 5
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