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O we or don’t we, with all its faults, love our House of Peers? This is the question which, with truly democratic detachment, the BBC avoided answering in "Focus on the House of Lords" --a topic perhaps somewhat less than immediate to a New Zealand audience, though listeners probably had little difficulty in applying some of the arguments for abolition or reform to the (continued on next page)
(continued from. previous page) local set-up. There is something rather awe-inspiring about the technical virtuosity of these BBC feature programmes. Backwards and forwards in time, now to the left now to the right in political viewpoint, from the spontaneous outbursts of the abolitionist to the laboured gropings of a class of boys remembering the make-up of the Model Pafliament, the microphone moves, and ell the
cross cuttings, flashbacks and fade-outs finally add up to a patchwork pattern which is artistically satisfying to those of catholic tastes though perhaps not so much sd to those who prefer the starkly functional. A straight exposition of the case for and against the House of Lords would have
got nowhere faster, but a programme that doesn’t aim to reach hard and fast conclusions is justified in entertaining its listeners en route.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 10
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211First and Second Estates New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 10
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