Fobbed Off
[T is always so enjoyable to hear the voice of a person you’ve admired that it sometimes takes a while to realise you’re being fobbed off with a voice and precious little else. I am thinking of Joyce Cary’s BBC talk, The Novelist and His Public. It was intereSting up to a point to hear him describe a writer’s public, composed of people who read everything he writes, even if they hate it, and who may just as well be busy housewives and dockers as intellectuals; to hear him aver that even Ethel M. Dell was sincere, though de-tective-novelists are not, that juvenile delinquents don’t read and that all novels are about morals. It was interesting, as I say, up to a point-the point at which it became apparent that it could all have been said by someone with vastly less talent than: Joyce Cary, and that most of it had been. There was little distinction either of style, of thought or of point-of-view. You get used to the idea that first-rate radio
usually turns out to be second-rate anything else, when considered as a bare script divorced from the personality that puts it across. This wasn’t even first-class radio.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 874, 4 May 1956, Page 21
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202Fobbed Off New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 874, 4 May 1956, Page 21
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