Political Figures
SELDOM listen to Parliament on the air, preferring to wait till the dust settles and read about it in the daily paper. Radio is such a purveyor of personality that when personalities are to the fore one finds one has little attention left over for the argument. But last week I enjoyed two most rewarding radio encounters with political figures, the Portrait from Life interview with Mabel Howard and the State Luncheon speech of Clement Attlee. These, of course, were as camera studies to the candid camera of Parliamentary relay, but they did illustrate radio's ability to put us in direct and satisfying communication in a way possible in no other medium. I was particularly impressed bv the interview with Miss Howard, which put us in touch with a warmth and maturity of outlook which we could
perhaps have deduced from her political record, but only after a considerable expenditure of effort in getting the dust of house-floor skirmishings. from our eyes.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 793, 1 October 1954, Page 11
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164Political Figures New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 793, 1 October 1954, Page 11
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