Flying Jaunt
"L{ALF-WAY TO NOWHERE," the NZBS record of a one-day trip to the Chatham Islands, heard over 3YA, scarcely got even as far as that. No doubt the session was meant to give us the holiday atmosphere of a flying jaunt, but in fact it ended by giving only the half-obliterated sketch of islands seen through patches of fog. After the plane took off from Auckland until the Chathams came into view, surely, was the appropriate time to outline their history, ending with the visual descrip‘tion of the islands. Though it might be objected that a single trip is not enough to build up a more precise vision, a ver--batim report is seldom sufficient for either the light or more serious script. Experience has to be burnished, sharpened, epitomised if it is to be at ail ‘memorable or even to be looked back upon with delight for a short time. Interviews with reluctant speakers, as in the case of the son of the last Moriori, must either be scrapped or more adroitly managed if they are to succeed. And we must be made to laugh, not at the straits _to which the reporters are reduced, but at the incident properly contained within the form of the programme.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 10
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209Flying Jaunt New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 10
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