Up in the Air
HE BBC feature Portrait of an Air Stewardess made me feel grateful for being so firmly grounded. Probably not since the days when tweénies underwent the ‘relentless grooming process into upper housemaid beneath the coldly critical eye of the butler has the ideal of service received so much fespectful attention. Of course, the whole
thing had the accustomed BBC hallmark of authenticity. Many of us have experienced something like that initial interview with the Boafd, with its foredoomed attempt to put the candidate at her ease, and the question about teasons for seeking this. particular work (though we were doubtless spared such inquiries as, "Are you inclined to put on weight, Miss Protheroe?" or "Have you seen the cosmetic specialist yet?" which strike one as verging on the ungentlemanly). Miss Protheroe, a successful candidate, read most of the programme in soft, gently fluted accents doubtless approvéd by both the BBC and the BOAC; but this, to me, made the feature aurally as well as ideologically trying.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 10
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170Up in the Air New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 10
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