A YANK AT THE BBC?
Sir--To one who had looked forward to the Scriptural readings by one Stanley Maxted from the National stations it came as a distinct and unpleasant shock to realise that we were listening to the accents of America. If this assumption is incorrect, some who tend to deprecate the intrusion of American influence in New Zealand life would be glad to learn that they are mistaken.
KENNETH
THOMAS
(Orakei).
{You are. Stanley Maxted is a Canadian of mixed Kentish and Scottish ancestry who joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1933 and was seconded to the BBC in 1940, He went into Arnhem with the Ist Airborne Division on September 17, 1944, and came out with the remnants of that force nine days later. During these nine days it was his voice which a the changing fortunes of that action.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 5
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143A YANK AT THE BBC? New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 5
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