Visiting Speakers
\ HENEVER a visitor of some note arrives in this country, doubtless the Talks Department quite properly regards it as a "must" to find out if he has a good story in him and, if so, record it. I wish more discrimination was brought to deciding whether or not the talk should then be used; even at the risk of offending the visitor. Both recent talks by Frank Clune (2YA) have reinforced this wish. Mr Clune’s voice is most unpleasing on the air and his story thus starts with a handicap. Even the saga of the Burke-Wills expedition, as told by Mr Clune, failed to grip. His style is reminiscent of a dead-pan, gravelvoiced comedian. His script scattered with egotistical asides, the speaker cast little new light on his subject. There seemed no strong reason why Mr Clune should have been chosen to tell this tale, of which any good script writer could have made a better job, straight from the history books. Not all who come |
should be chosen.
N.L.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 988, 25 July 1958, Page 25
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173Visiting Speakers New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 988, 25 July 1958, Page 25
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