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Happy Talent

ATS off to the instigator of that lively series What They Said at the Time, which has thé effect of both amusing listeners and inspiring them with a wholesome . disrespect for polemics, if only other peoples’. The idea is I suppose scarcely a new one-‘"Fifty Years Ago In The... " is a regular and popular feature in many newspapersbut radio has such facilities for dressingup the verbal past that it’s as good as a conducted tour to the controversy in question, And a tour organised by a most competent tourist bureau. The speakers are all audible, their voices are clearly differentiated (from each other, if not from the ones we heard in the same session last week) and our interpreter has a happy talent for linking his genuine excerpts together with wry comment end almost-genuine bits of dramatic reconstruction. Tragic issues do not, I feel, fit into the pattern.-"War Comes To New Plymouth" brought too close the picture of wrong thinking and mismanagement — but the less fundamental issues (daylight saving, provincial councils, six a’clock closing) are all fair game.

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 11

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Happy Talent New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 11

Happy Talent New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 11

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