Last Session of ZB Book Review
| ee [ HE Commercial Division’s popular | ZB Book Review is closing down. | R. M. Burdon, who chaired the first ses- | sion in February, 1949, will deliver the valedictory at the end of the final broadcast on Sunday, June 27, The review will be replaced by a weekly series of hour-long dramatic programmes from the studios of the NZBS, the BBC and the Voice of America. During its five years and four months on the air, ZB Book Review has featured 245 different speakers. Nearly 1500 books have been reviewed, wherever possible by specialists in each particular subject. For the first three years the session had a different chairman each week, but latterly each chairmen has served for a month. The reviews were recorded | in the various centres and forwarded to the studio in the chairman’s home city, where each programme was finally put together. --
In the last session on Sunday, June 27, the following books will be reviewed: Among the Americans, by Rom Landau (reviewer, Stuart Perry); JI Left My Roots in China, by Bernard Llewelyn (James Bertram); English for Teachers, by Anton Vogt (John Reid); and Animals, Myths and Men, by Morus, otherwise Richard Lewisohn (Angus Ross). The chairman, of course, will be R. M. Burdon. The end of ZB Book Review does not mean the end of broadcast book reviews. Book Shop, once a leisurely programme about books and topics connected with books, is now being broadcast weekly instead of fortnightly, and includes some four reviews a week instead of one every two weeks. It can be heard from the four YA stations and 3YZ at 8.20 p.m. on Wednesdays, 4YZ at 9.15 p.m, on Wednesdays, 1YZ at 5.0 p.m, on Sundays, and 2YZ at 6.0 p.m. on Sundays.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 778, 18 June 1954, Page 14
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