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Sir,- With reference to letters from Keith Mitchell and Barbara Jekyll, of Christchurch, on the subject of bad enunciation by BBC announcers: if they would write to the BBC direct, instead of to The Listener, they would find, as I did some time ago, that their helpful criticisms of the announcers’ speech’ would be appreciated and attended to. I had occasion some time ago to complain of the way the Foreign Affairs talk from the BBC, given over the air at
1.30 p.m. on Sundays from 2YA, was received in New Zealand. The speaker was a leading authority on foreign affairs, but his way of talking over the air was so bad that it was quite impossible to follow; he had the habit of emphasising unimportant syllables in every sentence in a most annoying manner, My letter was acknowledged and appreciated (in fact, the BBC said it was some two years since they had last heard from me, which certainly was the limit, I thought), and that particular speaker was very promptly taken off the air and another authority on foreign affairs (there are plenty of them in England) took up the talk, and later the talk was discontinued, Constructive criticism is usually much appreciated by the best people.
C. W.
THEVENARD
(Kimbolton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 871, 13 April 1956, Page 5
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