Brevity is the Word
| SELDOM have the chance of listening to 3YA’s morning sessions, and was agreeably surprised to find what was provided for the housewife at that time. Mainly. for Women one mourning included a short story of Ruth Park, which, being entirely a New Zealand production, should help to break down the considerable prejudice which exists against our own writers. This was followed by an interesting talk on Fiji. On another programme I noticed Vance Palmer’s excellent talk on Historical Writing in Australia, which I listened to from 3YC the same evening. At the end
of the week I heard another short story. this time by Martin Armstrong. This brings me to a reflection on the special advantages of the short story. Where a poor serial lasts until its exasperated but hypnotised listeners plead through the correspondence columns of The Listener for it to end, the poor short story is over and done with in a few minutes, and when a lot of short stories are heing broadcast jit is hard to imagine them reaching the consistently poor level of certain current serials.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 10
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186Brevity is the Word New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 10
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