"Like Being at Home"

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 31, 15 February 1929, Page 8

"Like Being at Home"

A GENTLEMAN from the Old Land, now resident in the Nelson district, has written to the Broadcasting Company, to ask the address of Mr. Lambert Harvey, tenor, who sings for 1YA. It appears that the gentleman knows well the voice of Mr. Harvey, who was a well-known singer in England, and when he heard Mr. Harvey on the air in New Zealand, it was like meeting an old friend in a strange land. An extract from the correspondent’s letter reads: "On looking through the programme of music from your station on Wednesday, January 80, I noticed one name announced which was familiar to me in the Old Country. This made me very interested, and so 1 determined to go somewhere to hear his singing. You can imagine my great delight, and longing to speak when the voice which came over the air was the same, or, at least, to me it seemed so, as that which I had often listened to from the Newcastle-on-Tyne station, and from various platforms. It senta thrill through me that prompts these lines of inquiry."