One Orchid
T is not often that we listeners are given the opportunity of hearing the front-room boys with their back hair down asking each other questions about their place in the radio scheme of things, and I felt very grateful for the privilege of hearing an Auckland panel of rare talent discussing in all humility the topic "Are Radio Discussions Worthwhile?" A. R. D. Fairburn has thought so, thinks so, and will think so. John Gundry (included in the discussion on account of. his termitic activities as radio critic) had obyiously come along prepared ‘to say they weren’t, but was reduced to urbanity by Mr. Fairburn’s unflagging conversational virtuosity. M. K. Joseph, apparently repudiating the suggestion that Brains Trusts sprang fully-armed from the head of Joad, traced their honourable descent from Socrates via Johnson, and remained calm and judicial throughout. Hesitating to say that here was a discussion to end all discussions I shall confine myself to remarking that it was the best I have yet heard-and all occasioned by the apathy of 1YA’s listeners, from whom this talented trio has not yet drawn the meed of one euphonious fan-letter.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 10
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191One Orchid New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 10
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