ZB's New Book Session
EW people reach the end of a book without wondering what sort of person the author is. If his photograph is on the dust-jacket, the reader can form some idea of his approximate age, but to hear his voice would give an even better clue to his personality. And that is what the ZB stations and Station 2ZA propose to do in a new Sunday night book review session which will start at 9.15 p.m. on Sunday, February 6, and be heard each Sunday thereafter at the same time, By arrangement with British publishérs the Commercial Division of the NZBS will introduce into each session a short recording in which an author will tell how he or she came to select the material for the plot or what inspired the writing of a book, . In each session from three to five books will be dealt with and one New Zealand book will be included. Several British publishers have already sent recordings and others have expressed interest in the session. On the opening night, Eric Ramsden, of Wellington, a student of Maori history, will review H. B. D. Dansey’s How the Maoris Came to Ao‘earoa; F. L. Combs, writer, educationist and critic, will review G. B. Stern’s latest novel, No Son of Mine, which concerns the life of Robert Louis Stevenson; Dr. T. Garland, Director of Industrial Hygiene, will . discuss Van MHoosen’s Petticoat Surgeon, and C,. R. H. Taylor, of the staff of the Turnbull Library, will deal with Old New Zealand, by F. E. Maning. The voice of G. B. Stern will be heard in the course of the review of her novel. Among other reviewers who will take part'in the new session will be Frank Sargeson, Ngaio Marsh, James Bertram, Isobel Andrews, A. R. D. Fairburn, Dr. A. M. Finlay, Pat Lawlor, O. N. Gillespie, and Allen Curnow. Other authors’ voices which have already been recorded for use in reviews are those of Robert Gibbings, Norman Berrow, Ngaio Marsh, and James Bertram, and a steady flow of recordings by overseas writers is expected from England. Each session will occupy about 20 minutes and for the first the_chairman will be R. M. Burdon, New Zealand historian. .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 500, 21 January 1949, Page 13
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