Microphone and Society
‘THE New Zealander’s home was never as secure as the Englishman’s castle, and it is really no surprise, in the ZB nNrovgramme Firacida
SS --s » ltt te Fun to find. the microphone lying in wait by the domestic hearth, poking its unsightly muzzle over the back of the armchair. As a nation, we must be fairly resigned to public _ intrusion. Certainly, very few of those who take part in this quiz seem much troubled by
the presence of the microphone. There are, in fact, lying round piecemeal in these programmes, the materials for a documentary rich in unconscious humour and social satire. What airy deductions regarding social habits could, for instance, be based on the failure of one candidate to complete the phrase "Spare the rod, .. . ."? Fifty years ago, could anyone have been ignorant of its conclusion? Most of the questions are, of course, "give-aways," but, even so, the strenuous efforts of the quizmaster to extract the right answers would earn any teacher’s sympathy. It ought, however, to be recorded by some collector of Incidental Intelligence that in New Zealand, in October; 1949, a quizmaster was found able and unashamed to accept (and even give \a prize for) "rotten" as the superlative of "bad." .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 11
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207Microphone and Society New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 11
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