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HERE are two main kinds of good radio speakers--the "natural" ones, who can talk impromptu, or who at least give that impression, and the more formal ones who convey an impression of speech heightened, of a quasi-collo-quial utterance which, while fluent and friendly, gives added pleasure in enabling us to see the smooth pattern of well-wrought sentences beneath the speech. Philip Matthews in the opening talk of a series from. 1YA, Along the Chinese Gold Trail, seemed to me to belong to neither group. His script was (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) too obviously read, with pauses and intonations following punctuation rather than the rises and dips of speech, formalised or not. This was a pity, because Mr. Matthew's material was of the greatest interest, the by-product of Tesearch into the, story of the Chinese in New Zealand; and told of the arrival of the first Chinese in Dunedin, and the reception given by the early settlers to these "celestials,’" "pedts of society" and "interesting bipeds.’’ The series itself promises to be a valuable one; and, as Mr. Matthews has a pleasant voice, further experience may develop that reJaxation of manner which he needs to become a competent speaker of the
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 534, 16 September 1949, Page 10
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