Holiday Journal
\ THEN June Irvine, 2XG’s Women’s Session Organiser, went home to England last year for a holiday she kept her mother abreast of her doings by posting her a regular series of diary jottings. Now that she is back in Gisborne again, June has looked at her letters home and from them recollected in tranquillity her impressions of .a wonderful holiday. In her series-of eight talks. which she calls Traveller's Diary, June Irvine includes two about her stay in Holland with a Dutch family, but as a good broadcaster she has devoted most of her talks to her visits to Bush House, the administrative centre of the BBC in London,‘ to Lime Grove, the Television studios, and to Pinewood, the J. Arthur Rank film production studios not far from London. Pinewood was the perfect setting for the production of high-class glamour, she found. It had been a millionaire’s home, built in the 19th Century, and its ornate facade has been’ seen in a number of Rank films-in Uncle Silas, for instance. She was shown over many of the different departments which contribute to production, wardrobe, casting, carpenters’ workshops, props, and watched part of an exciting "sea" sequence from Above Us the Waves being
filmed. Afterwards she met many of the film’s stars in the studio .cafeteria, among them Jack Hawkins. and John Mills. Listeners will be able to hear these and other entries from June Irvine's Traveller’s Diary in ZB Women’s Sessions, beginning on Wednesday, May 18.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 21
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248Holiday Journal New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 21
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