Now Listen Carefully

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30028, 12 January 1963, Page 10

Now Listen Carefully

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With the Announcers at some Stations I haven’t much Pations. They speak condescendingly, or mincingly, Less like Announcers than Actors playing Announcers, Not altogether convincingly. Before Breakfast I’m not equal to Grand Opera. Almost Anything else would be properer. The Meat Schedule, that fascinating Feature, Is read to Us by some enchanting Creature— Our Ladies of the Microphone can sound (Pricing their Beef and Hogget by the lb.) Like Madame Dulcet’s Drama Class, in Make-up, Doing Scenes from Shakespeare for the annual Break-up. The Weather Office Boys could not care Less For elocutionary Finesse— Their Fronts are cold, their Pressure Systems low. The Warmth they forecast might as well be Snow If my aneroid Barometer could speak. Its bloodless Accents couldn’t be more bleak. • • • The NZBC’s Maori isn’t Maori— About as near as Treated Pine to Kauri. Pronunciations meant to be meticulous. When gabbled on the ZB's—how ridiculous! The NZBC News sounds good to Me, Except those Borrowings from the BBC. Tepid at Best, my Interest turns cool When Glasgow Grandmother wins Football Pool. As for TV—when it’s been going long enough, It may be good enough—ana I may be strong enough!