BBC ARTISTS
Sir,-In your issue of March 20 mention is made in "Open Microphone" of awards to yarious BBC artists for 195253. However, there are many who disagree, and I quote from an issue of Everybody’s Weekly of January 10, 1953; By a majority vote, Britain’s Radio-TV critics have chosen for Everybody’s Gilbert Harding as The Personality of
the Year. Though the Radio-T'V fans of Britain are equally divided into Hardingadmirers and Harding-haters, none will quarre] with the fact that he was the most talked about person on the air in 1952, This is the voting went: Per‘sonality of the | Year: Gifbert ’ Harding (Runner-up: Singer David Hughes); Best Series: | Edacating "Archie; Best. Comic: Al Read; Most Memorable Broadcast of the Year: The King’s Funeral (Runner-up; )‘‘Jourhey from, Silence"’-an account. of ‘teaching children born deaf to speak); The Personality who should be- given a rest: "Richard Dimbleby and "Wilfred Pickles (deadheat), : I for one second the critics and not the Daily Mail in the last.award, and I think something in this vein should be run in this country. Incidentally, Gilbert Harding has written or is still in the ecess of writing a book called A reasury of Insult..
A.
E.
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 5
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200BBC ARTISTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 5
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