In the Wake of the WEEK'S Broadcasts

Radio Record, 12 June 1936, Page 8

In the Wake of the WEEK'S Broadcasts

Nice Clean Man. FRENCH guns from the Savorgnan de Brazza as she entered Wellington last Friday had scarcely finished their salute when the St. John Ambulance speaker from 2YA started talking about one of the most famous Frenchmen of all time, Louis Pasteur. This. chemist was a devil on microbes-couldn’t stand them at any price. Had quite 2 microbe "bug," in fact. And the Medical Council of that time just hated being told that they were dirty doctors. Pasteur, of course, won the coconut in the end, and has had his name. perpetuated in the’ process by which milk is made nice and pure and clean-and ineffective. | Non-pasteur-ised milk, which is so much better for you, of course, may be simply teeming with little wrigglies waiting to give you a whale ofa bout of tizzywizzies or something. Recently in the Wnglish House of Representatives, for instance, Mr. A, P, Herbert, and Lady Astor crossed swords about liquor and licensing hours. The famous Ameri-can-gone-Dnglish woman M.P. administered a tough one for the humouvist-gone-politician,. who came back with the charge that Lady Astor was encouraging the spread of those dreaded tubercles by her championing of nasty milk, full of bugs. Mr, Herbert did not suggest that beer be provided in school. Naughty, But Good. NOT everybody has had an unexpurgated edition of Honore de Balzac in their possession, but most people have heard whispers of his literary naughtiness-particu-larly the censor. But those who listened to "The Executioner" from JYA on Monday night last week in the hope of a spot of vicarious devilry were disappointed, because the story in the first place was not pornographic, and furthermore) the Broadcasting Board’s programmes are always very, very good. Some of the finest-if not the finest-models for short stories ever written are denied the large public, those splendid tales of Balzac and Boccaccio and in the origina] -Arabian Nights. It is real literature, from which some of the most successful short-story writers of the present day have drawn inspiration at the risk of occasional plagiarism. ‘But plagiarism would be pardonable if it could promise to eliminate the tripe dashed off by the hack writers,