Straight to the Point
"HE informal friendliness of the speaks ers, and the directness of the questions asked them, combined to make the
broadcast to schools in which Sir Edmund Hillary and Mr, George Lowe answered questions submitted by children particularly attractive, even when compared with the other Everest broadcasts, all of them of a high standard. The speakers were fluent and, as we have come to expect, always interesting: but the children. too, deserved credit for the brevity of their questions. A child asked: "How hard did the wind blow on the top of Everest?" Few adults, I suspect, would have resisted the temptations of prolixity, framing — the question in respect of this, and with reference to. that, what. in your opinion, with regard to so and so. Another child, without troubling to etch in a background of biology, anthropology, psychology, merely asked: © "What do you think of the Abominable Snowman?" The. result was a swift programme which could well serve as a model for many of the adult proerammes of a question and answer
type.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 742, 2 October 1953, Page 10
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178Straight to the Point New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 742, 2 October 1953, Page 10
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