Tell-Tale Tip

New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 526, 22 July 1949, Page 10

Tell-Tale Tip

| WAS about convinced by the first few minutes of John Morris’s new programme Sound Business which started from 2ZB last Monday. It was a telling little slice of Real Life, beginning with the shrieking of an alarm clock and the nagging of a wife which together drive the weary worker from his bed, continuing to record painfully and painstakingly the various noises that accompanied him through the day and ending with the sleep-happy snores of poor (continued on next page)

(continued from previous page) George when he finally gets away from it all, Now this little cameo of Modern Life could well have been permitted to stand on its own artistic merits. Instead we are switched to compére John Mortis, who, assuming the voice but not the cloak of Gilly Potter, proceeds to take us behind the scenes to explore radio’s sound effects, to the detriment of the few illusions we may have left about the way things are done in broadcasting. I feelit will be impossible to be thrilled by Edgar Wallace if I know that the chug-chugging of the swift launch manned by the river police is merely a radio factotum tugging at a £1 note, and that similarly a really frantic chug-chugging may not mean that the smugglers have been sighted but merely that two studio factota are tugging at the same £1 note.