Changing Background
BACKGROUND TO THE NEWS began in 1YA’s Feminine Viewpoint, spread to the evening. session, and thence to. southern stations. For five years, the Geography Department of Auckland University has provided thirteen speakers to give first-hand descrip tions of places in the headlines. In Dr. Cumberland’s farewell talk last week, announcing the death of this feature, the wide coverage he described must have surprised even regular listeners. Now Background to the News is to be replaced by a national programme, which, it appears, is to be a commentary on the news-a kind of junior Lookoutrather than a background to the news, despite its appropriation of the Auckland title. There is no reason why this should not be an acceptable additional session, yet the distinctive character of Background, which provided a new, immensely popular approach to geography, has been destroyed to create it.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 10
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145Changing Background New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 10
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