Seeded Players
PDOCUMENTARY, that word of doom, will henceforth have less power to appal me, since it must be obvious. to any listener to a YA station on Monday night that one cannot live by entertainment alone, that there are times when one takes pleasure:in an orderly, unlaboured progress from fact to fact, when one is positively grateful for being brought, ear to ear, with the challenging reality of Men at Work. Seeds by the Million, a saga of the Seed .Testing
Station, illustrated (I thought) the merits of the straightforward, or con-ducted-tour type of radio reporting. The somewhat stilted replies which the reporter first elicited from girls brought up to answer a question with a complete sentence did not conceal the interest
each seemed to take in her work. (One girl, asked if she did not find it monotonous counting white clover seeds into fours, explained that she often got other kinds of seeds to count.) This enthusiasm for the work was in no time at all communicated to the reporter, who was moved to comment on the fact that the Germination Room was enamelled "attractively and appropriately" in pale green. At the end of the programme I found myself in the happy position of having grasped the clearly-presented technicalities, and furthermore, of knowing and endorsing the aims and objects of Seed Testing.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 633, 17 August 1951, Page 11
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224Seeded Players New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 633, 17 August 1951, Page 11
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