Naturalist
T isn’t easy to decide what makes for success in radio speaking. Particular knowledge of the subject, colloquial ease balanced with a certain formality, economy of expression, enthusiasm — these are obvious assets. Another, I feel, is
familiarity. If we hear a speaker often’ enough, we can come, as we do with friends, to accept as likeable reflections of personality, some things which might grate at first. The NZBS is wise in not forcing all speakers into the BBC mould of bloodless impersonality, but in allowing, within reason, the retention of individual ways of speech, On these grounds I would nominate Crosbie Morrison, of the Wild Life and Junior Naturalists’ Club sessions as the best natural radio speaker I know. He is a mine of interesting information; he can be devastating on popular fallacies, but he never condescends to his audience, aware, no doubt, that it contains at least as many adults as children. His ease and his drive provide a friendly atmo’ sphere in which each listener can imagine he is being addressed personally. It isn’t surprising that he has lasted so long, while others with neater phras- | ing and "the voice beautiful" have fal-
len by the wayside.
J. C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 10
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