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OT having heard Book Shop for over a year, I tuned in to a recent programme wondering if it had changed at all in quality and form. The session was quite as agréeable as I had remembered it-urbanely introduced, determinedly not too heavy and John-O’-London-ish Douglas Mackenzie gave a thoughtful review of Sir John -Hunt’s Ascent of Everest with some valuable comments on its literary mexits: Nelle Scanlan provided reminiscences of literary figures, and Hector Munro gave the piece de résistance with a mock-solemn dissertation on Public Notices As a Form of Art. However, on the evidence of this one programme, shaped exactly as I had remembered it, I wonder if Book Shop hasn’t settled into a rut and is content merely to exploit the formula which made it, at the beginning, so fresh as a "bookish" session. Just as a newspaper needs, I feel, every so often a change of lay-out and headings, so perhaps Book Shop, good as it is, might sometimes substitute dialogue for the straight talk, give us a talk wholly in verse, even do as Groucho Marx does during the summer, give us an occasional programme composed of some of the highlights of past sessions--anything to keep it as bright and lively as it has so often been.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 10
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219Return to Book Shop New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 10
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