Present and Past
iz OW grateful one is for the immediacy of radio, which gave us in the nine o'clock news on the very same night an interview with Yvette Williams, still dusty from the jumping pit, and then, a few hours later, presented a quiveringly alive broadcast of the All Blacks’ match against the Barbarians. On the other hand I am frequently grateful for the fact that radio isn’t always as immediate as all that. In the three TIFHS a week I listen to we never get further than mid-1953. At this rate, we can afford to dismiss as scarfemongery the idle talk of gossip columnists that it isn’t Joy Nichols, it’s two other young women, and that Dick is in Australia doing Gently Bentley. The Nichols-Bentley-Edwards combination is_ solid to all who have no difficulty believing the evidence of their ears, and our 12,000 miles from the BBC should give us another six months of agreeable. status quo while everyone else is taking | dubious sips of the future. The Well-built Character ND NOT TO YIELD (A Story of Character-training Through Adventure) was a good example of the limitations of the documentary form when the object is to win friends as well as present facts. This programme, which deals with the "Outward Bound" system of youth training in Britain was guilty of the most fundamental failure in radio, a failure to communicate. Possibly it would have taken salesmanship to convince the average pretty-sitting New Zealander of the necessity for the vow of "no smoking, no drinking and a cold shower every morning" (which sounds to the irreverent ear as though it should be tagged on to Wallas Eaton’s "Long Live Freedom"); but even within the limits of the documentary technique it could have been done if we could have heard the inside story from the boys rather than the outside one from Wynford Vaughan Thomas, who could afford to be enthusiastic. And it was perhaps unwise to give the sub-title "Charactertraining Through Adventure" when listenérs were to be given no opportunity to view the Well-built Character.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 763, 5 March 1954, Page 11
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