FROM BBC TO ABC
Neil Hutchison as Director of Features
HE BBC’s Pacific Representative, .Neil’ Hutchison, has resigned from this position to join the ABC as its Director of Features, and will take up his new post early this year. Mr. Hutchison has been with the BBC ‘since 1934 and has had all-round experience in radio. Since his arrival in Australia three years ago he has been closely associated with
the ABC and has sent back to England a. number of Australian programmes for transmission from the BBC. He has prepared and produced for the ABC several sessions of the feature Quality Street and has also broadcast a number of talks. Discussing his new appointment as the ABC’s Director of Features, Mr. Hutchi- -_-_ ~-
son said that he had been impressed by the enormous number of subjects of a specifically Australian character that were waiting to be done on the air. "Australia has the writers, the composers and the actors," he said. "It is just a question of co-ordination and getting them mofe interested in those subjects on their own doorstep that are awaiting tadio-feature treatment." He sees radio features as five different types of programmes:-
(1) The straightforward documentary-the Tradio counterpart of "This Modern Age" film series, (2) The semi-drama-tized documentary, such as Bridson’s "Gold Rush" programme, where a story is told with music, commentary, and dramatized incidents illustrating social and historical events, (3) Programmes dealing with social questions, Partially illustrated by dramatic scenes, (4) Historical programmes telling their story with the aid of historical documentspresented as drama and interspersed with suitable music and dramatic reconstructions, (5S) The literary feature, which consists usually of the presentation of the work of writers and poets within the framework of dramatized episodes of actual events in the life of the subjects.
Mr. Hutchison has decided to settle in Australia because he likes Australia and Australians, and because "Australia is a country with greater possibilities of general development, and, in spite of what the pessimists say, with greater signs of real social progress than I’ve seen in any other country." iiute
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 498, 7 January 1949, Page 7
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347FROM BBC TO ABC New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 498, 7 January 1949, Page 7
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