Inexhaustible Supply of Talks

Radio Record, 17 July 1936, Page 12

Inexhaustible Supply of Talks

Something to Interest Somebody Every DayJottings About Some Speakers and Subjects

ID you ever pause to wonder. whether the subjects for radio talks are inexhaustible? With the four main stations in New Zealand alone, there _are usually at least two talks a day from each, yet subjects are seldom duplicated. Even then the speaker must find a new angle on his topic, so listeners could hear enough mental fodder altogether to completely educate them in a general way in the course of a year or so. But it’s not everybody that listens to every talk broadcast, even from one station. Occasionally there is a talk broadcast on a subject which appeals to nearly everybody, but more often the task is to balance those topics which are of interest to respective groups of listeners. With all this to consider, it is scarcely amazing to find the catholic nature of broadcast talks as a whole. There is always something new in the talks department as in the musical. Here area few notes on some. of the budget of talks to be heard soon :- RREMEMBER W. W. Bird’s series of talks last year on the Maori language? The same speaker’ is to give a further series in two or three months’ time, dealing with songs of the Maori, classifying them and describing them in interesting detail. , BROADCASTING has been of considerable publicity value to the National War Memorial Art Gallery and Museum | from time to time, and when this Wellington institution is opened for the public on August 1, listeners will have learned something more about it. On July 27, in the adult lecturette session from 2YA, a talk will be given by Mr. W. 8S. Wauchop, Parliamentary Librarian, on ‘Modern

Ideas of the Use of Public Art Galleries and Museums." The tendency now is to use them much more actively than in the past. The day after the Wellington buildings are opened, Dr. W. R. B. Oliver, director. of the Dominion Museum is to talk on the biological aspect of the work, Mr. R. Hipkins the following Monday on the art aspect, and Dr. I. L. G. Sutherland later on the Maori section of the museum’s interests. SMALL-BOAT voyages will be the subject of two talks from 2YA on July 28 and August 4 respectively, by L. de Berry, who will give listeners the stories of some of the really famous voyages made by small craft round the Seven Seas. NOVELTY is promised for August 10, and successive weeks, when Mr. J. M. Giles is to give a series of ‘talks entitled, "Tales from Real Life." Mr. Giles, in his long years in journalism, both in New Zealand and abroad, has been able to collect data which should prove thrilling for a large proportion of 2YA.listeners, . . HERE has been some discussion lately as to the obligations of-a doctor with respect to patients and the law. Under the title, "Should a Doctor Tell?" Mr. C. A. L, Treadwell, Wellington -barristers, will elucidate the position considerably from 2YA on July 30, "GEMS FROM THE KINSEY COLLECTION" is the title of a talk to be given by’Mr. E. J. Bell. chief librarian at Christchurch, who has been assisting in the sorting of the collection of valuable works destined for repose in the Turnbull Library. This talk is to be broadcast from 3YA on July 30.