Microphone Impromptus
M IND Your I’s and Q’s is announced as "a new type of quiz," offering ‘listeners entertainment and amusement. The average radio quiz is often a dull affair; those amateurs who offer to compete usually fall into two classesthose who know the answers but. can’t talk, and those who can talk, but in doing so\reveal themselves as abysmally ignorant. In Mind Your I’s and Q’s we have a few selected speakers who seem to have been hand-picked for both knowledge »and the ability to face a microphone with ease and confidence. The result so far is not only a fipent session but a brilliant one. The art of extemporising has practically vanished from ordinary human intercourse, as it has also from the list of the average musician’s accomplishments. In this session we are reminded that facts are a poor substitute for sparkling conversation, and that many a speaker may be more entertaining on a subject of which he knows nothing than a learned professor on his own dry-as-dust hobby horse. This is the kind of session which appeals to all heights of brow, and we can do with more such programmes.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 9
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193Microphone Impromptus New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 9
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