Of All Things
| AST Thursday proved ideally arranged for that delightful flitting from flower to flower which is the inconstant listener’s ideal of home entertainment. I started off at seven listening to book reviews with the devil-may-care insouciance of one unlikely to éncounter the reviewed object till its birth notice is forgotten; flapped my ears at Mary Mackenzie’s daring exposé of Frederick Farley’s World Theatre (a real privilege to be present at the ceremonial taking-in of each other’s washing by our dramatic pundits, particularly if one has been able to view the linen in question oneself), Then came. a pleasant quarter of an hour with Looking at Life, a programme whose merits
convict’ me of past neglect. Then on to 2YC for Fred Hoyle’s second talk, which left me chastened by the realisation that the sun is such a very minor star, convinced that a Midland accent (or should one say Regional?) carries much more weight over the air than a more scholarly one, possibly because it smacks of factory or pub rather than of ivory tower, and full of womanly sympathy for our poor astrophysicists who must wait another two hundred million years to have their theories
proved.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 11
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