The Mariner Hath His Will
‘TOO often the radio script sounds as if it is being read. Concentrating on the formal delivery, so many people, especially those from the intellectual | upper-crust, pound their scripts down until each sentence rises and falls in a monotonous sequence not really following the often quite exciting subject matter. Overseas speakers, partly perhaps because they get more practice, are not | sO prone to this fault. The interesting | thing is that the art of making every-| thing live for your audience does not belong exclusively to any one class of society. Your rough-and-ready man with a rough-and-ready voice may be an artist here while the more academic person fails, a thought which forced its way in upon me as I listened to Binnacle’s "More Days More Dollars" over 3YC. Binnacle conveys the impression that he is telling an impromptu yarn of coastal | sailing around New Zealand waters in early days. Of course the sea yields almost as many stories as fish, and possibly in the long sea days men learn how to
tell yarns, and this | makes them "nat- | urals" for the radio | once they have re-| tired. I am _ con-| vinced however that | New Zealand broad- | cast talks would im- | prove if those who| gave them first lis- | tened to people of | Binnacle’s calibre. |
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 659, 22 February 1952, Page 11
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220The Mariner Hath His Will New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 659, 22 February 1952, Page 11
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