Remembered Voices
\V HEN the BBC dips inte its library of | recordings to make a programme on_ recent history, it is inevitable, I suppose, that the same voices should appear, whether the programme be an historical survey or whether, as recently from 4YA, it is related to the life of the present Queen. There was something «a little too familiar about this programme, Through Childhood to the Thronethe last drops from an orange squeezed thoroughly in the past. It was not without interest, however; there seems to be a perpetual fascination in the repre-
sentation of remembered voices, and the brief account of the war years, with the voices of Hitler, Chamberlein, Churchill and Roosevelt, involved the listener in his own memories, thus ensuring that audience participation which is the essential of a good programme. The programme included the voices of George V, George. VI, the Queen. Mother, and recordings by the present Queen from the age of fourteen, but I particularly enjoyed the brief comment from George V’s diary, quoted by the BBC with its flair for making its subject live for us in a few words-in this case, George V as a proud grandfather. "All the children were nice," he wrote in his diary after his Jubilee, "but none were. as pretty as Lillibet and Meargaret."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 11
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218Remembered Voices New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 11
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