RADIO VARIETY
»ir,-Good humour is scarce on the air but surely something better than the Goon Show and Radio Roadhouse are available. They are both stage shows broadcast and, as with all such, the laughter of the studio audience detracts from the intelligibility. Perhaps the worst feature is the screaming false voices. The Goons are more unintelligible than the Roadhouse people (whatever a roadhouse may be) and the screaming falsettos more irritating, but in the one presentation of Radio Roadhouse I have heard the ignorance of the characters was more profound, There was a Maori who used the word "plurry" several times. Surely anyone who has passed the sixth knows that there is no "I" in Maori and that the word "plurry" is pure Australian aborigine. Another character calls the Auckland wharves "docks," a term never used for wharves. It is irritating to have to sit and listen to the studio audience laughing madly at something they can see whilst the microphone is silent. There is no entertainment for listeners in this. Programmes such as A Life of Bliss and Life With the Lyons written for broadcasting could well be taken as examples by the broad-
casting people.
J.S.
L.
(Wanganui)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 988, 25 July 1958, Page 11
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201RADIO VARIETY New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 988, 25 July 1958, Page 11
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