Purple Plums
MONG Kenneth Melvin’s radio assets are his nose for a "story" and his confident tones which lend persuasive-
ness to even the most simplified view. True, neglect of any aspects of world affairs save the "newsworthy" ones and the creation of "stories" from slender material keep his sessions on the digest level. However, such considerations haven’t marred the samples I’ve heard of his Going Places and Meeting People series
from abroad. Here his eye for the interesting tit-bit, his suave handling of celebrities, and his empurpled descriptions, fruitily delivered, provide most entertaining programmes, In a recent session, he took us to a Victoria League conference for a pep-talk and to Victoria Tower for a meditation on archives and ashes, and introduced us to Dorothea Franchi, who spoke engagingly about her studies and played her harp. But the plum of the occasion was the BBC commentary on the Grand National, in which the 32 starters fell like little nigger boys, leaving two horses in the running for a really thrilling finish. Kenneth Melvin’s neat dove-tailing of these pieces into an entertaining half-hour showed that in this type of thing, few others can compére with him.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 632, 10 August 1951, Page 10
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196Purple Plums New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 632, 10 August 1951, Page 10
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