Lightness Lost
"HE speed and the brevity with which a BBC panel trifled cheerfully with the notion "My Pet Hate" made an amusing programme which has most regrettably inspired a series of fifteen minute talks at present to be heard from 4YA. The BBC used a team of speakers, and in the interplay of comment some lightness was achieved; to bog a single speaker down in a prolonged dissertation on a subject essentially trifling (if treated in a determinedly "light-hearted" manner) seems to involve him in the busy manufacture of a _ set of unreal stereotyped figures to serve as foci for the hatred demanded of him. Perhaps the speakers so far heard are too goodtempered for the role in which they have been cast; it is more likely, however, that the idea behind these talks is too slight-like a Bikini on a fat woman, there just isn’t enough to go round.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 778, 18 June 1954, Page 11
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152Lightness Lost New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 778, 18 June 1954, Page 11
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