For Women, Warmth
"THE BBC chooses commentators by voice first; it is easier to train in sport, say, someone who already speaks well than vice versa. I do not know the NZBS method, but the first seems sound enough, and since radio personalities take time to flower, the job often brings out latent abilities. Not all are blessed with the natural charm of Loma Jones, but one who has quite literally warmed to her work at 3YA is Airini Grennell. Aided perhaps by a spell in children’s sessions, her beautiful voice has acquired human interest and — understanding. Women’s programmes give some solid material; cosmopolitan, too, this last week, and a delightful highlight was to hear Airini Grennell interviewing Miss Young Sook Park, of Korea. Both were interested; both enjoyed themselves. Since Miss Park’s English was recently learned, though charming, she was unobtrusively shepherded by Miss Grennell. An interview like this will include the listener in a way a straight talk cannot do, and is particularly suitable for domestic discussion of food, clothes, and customs in other countries. Next day we went to Japan with a Swedish woman: what an armchair traveller Constant Listener is, if he but realises.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 921, 5 April 1957, Page 21
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198For Women, Warmth New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 921, 5 April 1957, Page 21
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