Pleasant Departures
O the best of my knowledge Dick Morris, who has been doing Wild Life for 3YA, was "found" for the radio about five years ago. He is a man who spends a great deal of his time in the bush observing the habits of wild creatures. In fact, he is a "natural" in a way that few other people anywhere would be, with a tremendous enthusiasm and knowledge for his subject and a coherencé to his thoughts which enable him to pour out an apparently unscripted and lively torrent of information. Because of his rich bush lore, so obviously learnt at nature’s feet, what might be intolerable in another speaker becomes as unique and as wonderful as the cactus flower in him. But surely in choosing the unusual, the pleasant departure from standard English, discrimination is necessary; and whatever other qualifications Leslie Masters may have for writing for Book Shop, his script, as is the custom with the work of many people not considered suitable, should be delegated to someone else to read.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 785, 6 August 1954, Page 10
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175Pleasant Departures New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 785, 6 August 1954, Page 10
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