In the Open

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 4, 7 August 1931, Page 6

In the Open

FEAR I did not find in Mr. Ritchie’s talk given from 4YA quite the enthralling entertainment for which I was hoping. The speaker’s delivery was a trifle too slow, and I’ think perhaps listeners would have been better pleased had the talk been liveried up with more incidents. "To my mind much of the’ descriptive matter was reminiscent of.a very well written, but somewhat ornate, guide book. As an ardent supporter of the tramping fraternity I am always anxious that new disciples shall be won. I believe Mr. Ritchie would have. been more effective if.he had conducted his listeners on a jolly good week-end tramp. Let them stop once or twice to boil the billy; let them taste for once, real honest tea; let them see just how much thé miss by sticking to the dusty hard in their noisome motor-cars, and I am sure quite a number will leave their cars in the garage next week-end and see what the trampers’ point ‘of view is like. ‘Much of the descriptive work in this talk was excellently well done; just a trifle too much of it, that was all.