No Surprises Left
T’S a sensible procedure to advertise a new documentary in advance, but not so sensible when the advertising quotes so extensively from the programme that there are no surprises left. That’s what I felt happened to William Roff’s report on Hungarian immigrants, Distant Refuge. I had heard Mr. Roff talking about it on 2YA’s Radio Digest and I had read his article in The Listener, and was attracted to’ listen because it promised to give a more vivid impression of what this sudden translation to the other side of the world meant to these unfortunate people than I had gathered from any other source. And I believe it did; but I found that, although we heard the actual voices, it made almost no point that Mr. Roff had. not already made in advertising it, so that I had a feeling of let-down and staleness. It was still a good programme, all the same, and I was glad it ended with a plea for understanding in ‘the (continued on next page)
difficulties likely to follow. These Hungarians arrived on such a wave of goodwill on our side and relief on theirs that we’re all wide open to disillusion, which would be a sad end to the enterprise,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 10
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209No Surprises Left New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 10
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