"WANDERING MICROPHONE"

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 52, 5 July 1935, Page 5

"WANDERING MICROPHONE"

HE ‘‘wandeting microphone" has not yet begun to play an important part in New Zealand broadcasting, but as its use grows in Europe and Americaand it is undoubtedly being used to a greater extent abroad-the reaction will eventually be felt in the Antipodes. The practice of taking the microphone about the country-to fairs, into homely cottages, to snowy heights or the depths of coal mines-is a commendable one, and one that is likely to bring to listeners a clearer understanding of "how the other half lives." Some months ago the "Radio Record" suggested that a microphone at a real Maori gathering would be both entértaining and educative to thousands of New Zealanders who are lamentably ignorant of the ways of our native race, The song of the bellbird, coming from the depths of the bush, could also provide the "wandering microphone"’ with a subject. Experiments of this kind would at least demonstrate how rich a texture of natural beauty and homely customs might be caught by the microphone.