Good in Parts
RADIO audience is a blind audience, and if a radio programme is to be successful it must provide its, listeners with eyes, its vivid brevity of description presenting an immediate visual impression. That the producer of Calling Taiaroa, a locally-made documentary on the signal station at the entrance to the Port of Otago, appreciated this fact was obvious from the quality of his introductory remarks which gave a dramatic background of time and place to his subject. The prefatory music and sound effects, too, were unusually well chosen. Why, then, did he allow his pro-) gramme. to lapse so disastrously into the bathos of an. (apparently) unrehearsed | interview? How could he expect the untrained broadcaster with his tools of trade lying visibly about him, to translate them into city living rooms? My sympathies were with the victim, coping valiantly with the banality of some of the questions asked him, and the complexity of others, while the atmosphere of rather studied informality froze all originality or humour. This was not a bad programme; it was disappointing in that it was so nearly very gcod. The producer showed intelligence and appreciation in his approach to his subject; it was a pity that later he got bogged in the morass of the interview.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 656, 1 February 1952, Page 13
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214Good in Parts New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 656, 1 February 1952, Page 13
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