Too Much Cackle
OR its "listeners’ choice’"’ session, 1YD uses the gimmick of The Last Six, which assume that all the gramophone records in the world are to be destroyed, save six only, which the compére of the week may salvage. It is an agreeable enough idea. Sessions I have heard varied from the entertaining to the awful, with occasionally a really bright and original contribution. Last Sunday’s
session had the advantages of a literate script, a sensible plan and records ranging from Seaight’s Becket sermon to some familiar Bach. Doug. Laurenson, whose control of these programmes often makes them appear better than they really are, tried to add extra novelty by making deductions about the personality of the commeére*from her script alone, deductions ‘ only partly confirmed in the epilogue-a letter from her husband. Mr. Laurenson is to be commended for endeavouring to keep the. session from its threatening rut. But his presentation involved three introductions — his detective work, the recorded formula opening, and the compére’s own prologue-so that I began to wonder when the cackle would be cut and the horses emerge. If on this occasion, the formula had been dis-
pensed with, what was a good programme might have turned into a very good one,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 821, 22 April 1955, Page 11
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207Too Much Cackle New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 821, 22 April 1955, Page 11
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