Into the Fray
OME months have passed since I last heard Leave It to the Girls. Since then the panel has changed, but the programme still misses. The new panel sounds less genial than the old, and none too. compatible in temperament, opinion, or outlook. Perhaps the search should have been widened to get the panel absolutely right for this sort of programme. But much of the failure of Leave It to the Girls seems to lie in the questions to be answered rather than with the girls themselves. One cause of the programme’s not entertaining us more is possibly our copying the Australian original too closely (a course which I, for. one, did not advocate in suggesting some form of My Word of our own). It was a mistake to continue the programme beyond the ready supply of stimulating and adequate questions likely to provoke discussion. None of the four questions in the latest session really allowed much scope for sound advice or amusing comment. The programme organisers might be wiser’ to scrap a recording that does not come up to expectations and try again. It is not always possible for such a panel to be at the top of its form but it would be better if the listener only heard it at its best.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1052, 23 October 1959, Page 20
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217Into the Fray New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1052, 23 October 1959, Page 20
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