From Abroad
FOUND two recent Sunday night talks instructive-about Sunday night talks. The first was by the Indian Minister of Health, the Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. I’m sure her charming personality and impeccable and: lively English (thoroughly »U-English) would have mace a scripted talk worth listening to; Dut I’m equally sure the success of this one was largely due to its being an interview, skilfully conducted by Marie Griffin. Not only is an interview less formal: a tactful interviewer leads a speaker to the things that will interest the listener, while leaving him free to say the things he most wants to say. The following Sunday we had a talk on the care of the aged, by the President of the International Association of Gerontology. It was an admirable script, expertly read by Basil Clarke. The only trouble was that almost exactly the same talk has so often been delivered on the air or written in newspapers by New Zealanders. It seems a pity that a man should come right around the world and say no more than our own experts habitually tell us. I’m sure an informed interviewer could have brought out things we knew less about-details of what other countries are doing, for example.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 900, 2 November 1956, Page 18
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205From Abroad New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 900, 2 November 1956, Page 18
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