The People, God Bless Them!
WAS sorry to find when I tuned in to 2YA last Saturday night that the irrepressible Wilfred Pickles was no longer in his accustomed place, having presumably journeyed to another station out of my bivalve’s reach. I had never before met anything quite like Wilfred, and it took me several Saturdays to get used to his heavy and openhanded avuncularity, but an acquired
taste is not easily forgotten, and I now find other quiz shows tasteless beside his. It was not only the rich Lancashire satisfaction oozing from his "Give him the mooney" (any quizmaster worth his salt likes getting rid of his sponsor’s cash): it was his delight in the object of his session, the business of "presenting the people to the people." The quietest individuals, facing him across the mike, found no difficulty in telling an audience of strangers, on request, their most embarrassing experience, their dearest wish, or the three companions they would like for their desert island sojourn. Dear old ducks of 80 (addressed as Luv by the compére) quayered a song for him or recited their favourite bit of Shakespeare. The fastidious may consider that the session would be all the better for a little more restraint, but Wilfred, in influencing his protégés to let down their hair to its fullest extent, has produced a quiz show which has as much for listeners as for the quizzed,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 503, 11 February 1949, Page 8
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