CHILDREN'S SESSION
Sir,-Each week the Listener presents reviews of various broadcasting personalities. The criticism and appraisals are often very stimulating and sometimes rather unnecessarily petty, as I felt was the case towards Colleen at 2YA. It -seemed as if the reviewer tried to minimise her undoubted talent and popularity with the younger folk by drawing comparisons with programmes performed some years ago under the headings of "Comic serials and Operettas." These efforts were to my mind nothing short of chaotic. Let us hope that an out-
burst of this sort of talent will not occur again. After all, this session should be for children and not just a vehicle to give vent to the musical meanderings of some mike-happy youths. Colleen’s understanding and tact with children is something which is quite a delight to witness. Has our reviewer ever watched her conducting her children’s quiz programmes on Saturday afternoon? I have never seen crowds of children so charmed as they are by her on these occasions. Here we have a radio personality with a clear lovely voice, completely natural and at home on the mike with an unceasing supply of bright ideas for her listeners and a talent for story-telling and characterisation which is a rarity in New Zealand. Her rendering of the story of Tom Sawyer was remarkable; she made this tale live again for me and invested it with a richness of atmosphere that Twain himself would have enjoyed. I hope that Colleen will continue to bring pleasure to her many listeners as she has to our family for the past few
years.
J.
RYAN
Dannevirke).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 912, 1 February 1957, Page 5
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268CHILDREN'S SESSION New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 912, 1 February 1957, Page 5
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