Radio Doctor
Not since Me and Gus went off the . P ° . air have I a \personality as much as I enjoy the Radio Doctor. He is rather like Mark Hendrick, with the same slow, ruefully humorous narration. I have heard sim speaking on baldness and on tonics, talks that were well constructed and beautifully delivered, informative and amusing. He throws off mild jokes in passing, designating one tonic as "arsenic and old_nails," or commenting that "one can readily imagine that gold can be a tonic on certain occasions." His peroration to this talk summed up a lifetime’s experience of many characters in search of a tonic. "Oh, the blind faith of miserable mortals in the restoring effect of a bottle of highly-coloured and preferably ill-tasting tonic. Oh, that belief in the bottle! It makes one weep." As far as I can gather, these talks are 5) be heard only at 9.30 on Tuesday They are well worthy of inclusion in the evening programme.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 667, 18 April 1952, Page 11
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164Radio Doctor New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 667, 18 April 1952, Page 11
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