N.Z. RADIO PLAYS
Sir,-Your reviewer J.C.R. has surely answered his own question regarding the paucity of New Zealand authors of radio drama with his reference to inadequate financial reward. Most of the potential playwrights in the field must surely be put off by the realisation that our Broadcasting moguls consider radio plays written by New Zealanders of such little worth that any member of the cast with a leading part in such a play can, and ‘usually does, receive much more for his effort in the play than the author of it. To speak a word is no more difficult than to write it. And since the author writes the dialogue of. all members of the cast should he not receive equal to the total payment made to the entire cast? Such a mathematical formula may appeal to whatever governmental accountant is responsible for this ridiculous state of affairs. But the result would be that playwrights might be encouraged to write for our radio instead of
being insulted.
BRYAN
BAKER
(Wellington).
(The state of affairs is not the "ridiculous" one described by our correspondent: far from it-and getting farther from it.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1054, 6 November 1959, Page 11
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