No Flash in the Pan
TATION 1YA’s morning session Feminine Viewpoint has been going for long enough now for us to see it not as a mere flash in the pan, but as a wellvaried and consistently interesting programme, superior in nearly every respect to the soap-operas and uncomprehendingly read "famous singer" scripts it has replaced. The new feature blends interviews and talks, recorded programmes and studio discussions, music and drama, into a presentation with a distinct quality of its own. I find’ it pleasing to hear a women’s session which is not built on (continued on next page)
* (continued from previous page) the assumption that its listeners are little better than morons, and which thus gives as much stress to cultural and intellectual affairs as to homecraft and cooking, without any vulgarising. Much of the character of Feminine Viewpoint seems to me to come from the personality of its compére, Cynthia Dale. The aplomb with which she interviews celebrities, thrusts a seemingly ingenuous remark into a discussion, and offers a helpfully informal comment when a talk threatens to become too impersonal gives intimacy to the progtamme without a suspicion of "synthetic personality." It also enables her to carry off triumphantly such rare slips as "You have been listening to The Pleasuxes of Jensen,’ her recent ambiguous back-announcement for The. Pleasures of Music; by Owen Jensen.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 10
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228No Flash in the Pan New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 10
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