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writing radio reviews should, I feel, be portentous ones. But I am incapable of portentousness, and even undecided whether to strike a note of regret for opportunity past or exhilaration for freedom ahead. I have, on the whole, enjoyed my ten-year stint. There is_ nothing quite so enjoyable as demolishing with critical, teeth a well-buttered cob of radio corn, though there is enjoyment, too, if. you like» the glow of virtue, in the painstaking dissection and demonstration of merits scarcely visible »'4 sign-off lines after. ten years of
to the untrained eye. Corn is, of course, not as common as it used to be, except perhaps in the field of drama, and the last ten years have seen amazing progress, both technical and artistic, in the whole range of broadcasting. I prefer to think this due to the Principle of Progress rather than to any influence of mine. I should like, however, to claim credit or partcredit for one small reform, the fact that NZBS players are no_ longer anonymous but duly listed at the end of the
play.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 871, 13 April 1956, Page 30
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183Last Instalment New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 871, 13 April 1956, Page 30
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