The People On Your Screen (3)

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32222, 14 February 1970, Page 3

The People On Your Screen (3)

SHARON CROSBIE has been with the N.Z.B.C. for a year. And she joined} almost on impulse. She was a sixth-form English: teacher at Papanui High School and heard there were to be some auditions for television announcing. She likes the work, because it is varied' and interesting, and be-; cause the broken hours allow her an opportunity} to indulge in her hobbies.l principal among them: reading and cooking. Born in Rangiora but brought up in Wellington, Miss Crosbie was a pupil at

Queen Margaret College. She hates sports. But she has a very keen interest in a radio programme for students, “Front Line for Students," which she conducts. It is aimed at young people who are: studying and takes the form of debates and dis-' cusslons. This programme recommences in a few; days. “I’m a fantastic cook," shel says. She is a collector of cookery books and does a lot of cooking at home. “There's no better! cure for depression than; going to the kitchen and cooking up a storm,” shel says. And when she is on continuity television work, there is time for tapestry too. Her favourite programme? She says she has a great deal of time for English programmes because of their consistent quality. “Even if it is someone odious like Harry Worth, there is something credible about it, unlike the American plastic com-] edies." She likes the j 8.8.C.’s way of “putting; its all” into television series of novels, like the: “Forsyte Saga.” '

The only American programme she really likes is “21st Century.” But she is “mad about British comedy,” especially that of Marty Feldman. Miss Crosbie, who is 24, hopes to complete her arts degree; she has passed her Stage Ill’s] and has two units left to complete her degree. i She did not have to go far! back to decide upon her' most embarrassing mo-1 ment in television. It; was when she was reading, at the end of a long evening, an announcement about a forthcoming programme, and it came out as “David Frost Interviews General Sikorski.”

“The colon was there, after ‘lnterviews’,” she said, “and I heard anguished screams from the control room. And suddenly a glimmer of light came into my intelligence.” She thinks a sense of humour is important in television, as elsewhere. SATURDAY NATIONAL LINK [including 3YA, Christchurch <690 Kilocycles); 2YA, Wellington (570 Kilocycles); 4YA. Dunedin <7BO Kilocycles); and. 3YZ. Greymouth <920 Kilocycles).! 7.5 p.m.: Sports Review. 7.30: Sound Mirror. 8.0: Pertonal Column. 8.30: A Star Remembers. 9.0: Weather tnd News. 9.10: Looking at lurselves. 9.20: Local Sports Jesuits. 9.30: Pick of the Toons. 10.0: Women’s Bowls: ieport. 10.10: Tribute to ’ole Porter. 10.30: Sounds Treat. 1.20: All Night Protramme. 1.0 a.m.: Semprini Serenade. 2.30: Light Music ■torn the Netherlands. 3.3: Kathleen McCormack. 4.30: The Roaring Twenties (final). 3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (960 kilocycles)

7 p.m.: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Ferenc Fricsay Petrushka (1947 version) (Stravinsky). 7.30: New Zealand Composers (3). Antony Watson— String Quartet No. 2: David Sell—Carol: The Virgin’s Lullaby, Sonatina for violin and piano; Robin Maconie— ABA for harp. 8.39: Vocalist of Japan, Kunikazo Ohashi (bass-baritone), Kyoko Ohashi (piano)—To Music, Solitude (Schubert), Your blue eyes, May Night (Brahms), Ah, woe is me, The Lover’s Pledge (Strauss), Now your days of philandering (Figaro), Catalogue Aria (Don Giovanni) (Mozart). 9.6: Boston Symphony Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorf—Symphony No. 6 in F (Pastoral) (Beethoven). 9.45: John Ogdon (piano)—Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28 (Rachmaninoff). 10.19: Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Paris Conservatoire Orchestra under Georges Pretre —Sheherazade (Ravel). 10.34: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Lorin Maazel— Overture: Romeo and- Juliet (Tchaikovsky).