MRS. HELEN WILSON
Sir-Warren Bibble’s suggestion that the writers of New Zealand should band together and present Mrs. Helen Wilson with a tape recorder is surely excellent. First, because Mrs. Wilson is a naturalborn broadcaster, and transmits the power and warmth of her personality through the microphone, which has an uncanny way of exaggerating vanity, self-consciousness of mnefvousness, but can find none to magnify in Aer voice: and secondly, because we here in New Zealand have a great need of spoken history. Our old timers won’t last forever, the people who saw the beginnings of independence in this country have tales to tell which come best, like all other histories and folk-lore, from the living mouth: and we are not, to my mind, making all the use we can of this remarkable means of holding history, pickling it down for a later age. So may I add my own enthusiasm, and sense of urgency, to the plea that here, and now, the writers and listeners and readers of New Zealand should give to Mrs, Wilson an easy way of telling the rest of her own unique and remarkable history.
SARAH
CAMPION
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 869, 29 March 1956, Page 5
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192MRS. HELEN WILSON New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 869, 29 March 1956, Page 5
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