MEN AT WORK
N spite of the truth in the old saying that one half of the world doesn’t krow how the other half lives, many people can with an effert of imagination project themselves into situations end jobs they have never experienced. But how many of us can imagine ourselves as a King or even, say, the Governor of a Colony, A series of talks broadcast lust year in the Generai Overseas Service of the BBC described wnat a working day means to the holders of important positions in the British communiity. The speakers had cither held these positions themselves or had worked in close touch with someone who had. These talks are now to be heard fiom National stations of the NZBS. starting from 3YC on Wednesday, July 29, at 10.2 p.m., and from 4YC on Augus: 20 One day in 1885 Queen Victoria wrote in her diary: "Perfectly distracted with work of all kinds boxes, letters, private and official, telegrams, ~uestions, people to see, etc.. till 1 am really quite bewildered and exhausted." Much has changed since then and todav the Sovereign is the. centre of 2 smouthlyrunning organisation, but as Sir Owen Morshead tells in the first talk im this series, "A Day in the Life of a Sovereign," there is still little respite for the wearer of the Crown, even curing what would be holiday time fr ordinary people. As libraiian at Windsor Csstle
since 1926, Sir Owen has given persona! service to three Sovereigns. Amorg other tnings says Mr. Attlee at the end of a taik ona the working day uf a Prime Minister of Britain, physical fitness is an essential qualificatici for the position. The typical day Mr. Attlee describes began with reading the Foreign Office telecrams that had come in during the nignt and ended round about midnight with preparations for a speech fe be made next day. Mr, Herbert Morrison’s close knowledge of the workings of Parliament is vivailed by few members of the present House cf Cor.mons, and in the third talk he discusses the work of the Leader of the Opposition
-a position which car- ----- ries official status in the British Parliament and a salary of £2000. Other talks in A Day in the Life of a... as the series is called, de-
scribe typical working days of the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord Chancellor, a Member of Parliament, and the Governor of a Colony.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 16
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