Judicious Silence
RADIO programme is improved by | a judicious use of silence; not the. embarrassing silence that hangs thunderously between the phrases of an un-
practised speaker, but the brief period of quiet (four seconds? five seconds?) which allows the listener to catch his breath and savour again: the thought, or the final phrase, before passing on to the next. I was struck by the necessity for such silence in a recent broadcast of First Hearing, edited by M. K. Joseph, in which poem followed commentary, and commentary poem, at a breakneck pace. The same. fault occurred in A Sheaf of Royal Letters, a collection of readings from the correspondence of English kings and queens from Norman to Victorian times, These readings eee tained some rare pieces of writing, and were of great variety, and the individual performances were good (though perhaps James I was a little too senile); but | the general effect, thanks to the speed, | :
was of confusion.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 11
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161Judicious Silence New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 11
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