Uncertain Progress
LONG and rather painful series of talks from 4YA entitled Handy Housewife has at last come to an end. The idea behind these talks was good, and the speaker possessed a genial personality; he also no doubt knew a great deal that would be useful to the housewife. But none of these added up to even tolerably good radio. It sounded at first as if the speaker was giving an impromptu address, but a subsequent talk in which he confessed to having lost his place temporarily, proved = theory wrong, Why, then, was he allowed to stumble on, only too aware, as he frequently said, of the need for television to illustrate his remarks? This sort of broadcasting should have disappeared with the acquisition of the first tape-recorder in our studios. To allow a broadcaster to go on the air inadequately prepared is unfair both to himself and te his listeners, —
Loquax
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 11
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153Uncertain Progress New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 11
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