Watching and Listening
AM pleased to be able to record that, apart from the fact that ours were all anonymous and male, there was almost nothing to choose between the NZBS announcers covering the Wellington Coronation procession and the named varieties in London. There was the same enthusiasm, the same open-handedness ("I am now passing you over to my colleague at Government Buildings, who will describe what is going on at the rear of the procession"), the same fluency, possibly even the \same style of dress (duffel coat and R.A.F. mqustache, for the announcer I had under Observation), I was in a very good position to appreciate the debt we owe our radio commentators, for on this occasion whenever the’ proceedings seemed dull to the eye I could step from the balcony to the radio in the inside office, whence the enthusiastic comments of the ey=switnessing announcer immediately drove me out again to the balcony. Certainiy I was occasionally trapped into making unnecessary journeys by the speaker's
too vivid use of the historic present to fill what radio listeners abhor most-a vacuum, But at any rate that evening I was able to sit up to my radio for the Real Thing with the smug conviction that it isn’t even the onlookers who see most of the game-it’s the stay-at-homes.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 11
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219Watching and Listening New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 11
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