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OHN GORDON’s interview with Anthony Quayle proved once again the clumsiness of this method of eliciting information from travelling celebrities. The faults in this programme lay not entirely with Mr. Gordon, who had come ‘to the interview with some questions prepared; as an interviewer, if not beyond criticism, he was not inept. But the apparently inevitable misunderstandings that arise from imprecisely phrased questions or answers, though they may in a spate of elucidation following them give the programme an illusion of flowing easily, too often leave the listener feeling that a great deal of time has been spent saying very little and that many pate os points have been left out. In an interview for the press, these diffi-
culties are no doubt ironed out beforehand; in radio, we are presented with the raw material. With the use of taperecorders, some sort of editing should be possible. A doubt remains in my mind, however. Is the NZBS- using an established journalistic technique without considering the specific requirements of radio? In other words, to return to Mr. Quayle, would it not have been better to have heard him speaking, either extempore or from a prepared script, without the goad of persistent questioning?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 716, 2 April 1953, Page 12
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