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[N a BBC talk which I heard from " 4YA, E. M. Forster, on his "Impressions of America" was quite as good as I had anticipated. His talk, like his writing, contained the vivid description, the terse analysis, the true novelist’s gift of seizing on the most important aspect of a place or a person, and conveying it to the reader or listener in the most telling manner. I wonder how many listeners besides myself have been introduced to something really good through the radio? When I buy a gramophone record I select one, if possible, with an unfamiliar "second side," I book seats for those operas which I haven’t seen, rather than those I know; and a chance reference to an unknown author, mentioned favourably in a book or a radio programme, will send me searching out his writings on my next visit to the bookshop or library. So it was when a chance-heard review of E. M. Forster on my radio introduced me to this fine novelist. When next some arranger of tread programmes is searching for new material, what about a serialised reading (and I mean reading, not dramatization) of one of E. M. Forster’s books?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 520, 10 June 1949, Page 11
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