Dr Dunsheath Says Radio Script Uncut

Northern Advocate, 4 June 1947, Page 4

Dr Dunsheath Says Radio Script Uncut

(Special) ' AUCKLAND, This Day: DR P. DUNSHEATH, the British electrical engineer, says his broadcast on the power situation was recorded as submitted His brother Mr B. J. Dunsheath, of Auckland, said yesterday that Dr Dunsheath’s talk had been cut and important recommendations made by him were omitted in the bioadcast version. * ■ „ „ T n \ The Director of Broadcasting (Professor James Shelley) said last night that the talk was broadcast exactly as written and Dr Dunsheath spoke it for broadcasting before he left New Zealand.

In reply to a query by an Auckland newspaper, Dr Dunsheath wrote from Sydney on April 17 saying: •‘I certainly prepared several drafts before adopting the final version, but the broadcast was recorded exactly as submitted and you may take it asgiving my personal views, therefore.”

“The facts are,” said Professor Shelley, “that Dr Dunsheath, who had already broadcast on his arrival in New Zealand, was invited to talk again before his departure. “He accepted the invitation and submitted the script of his proposed talk. This was accepted without one word of alteration, with nothing deleted and nothing, added. “Dr Dunsheath recorded it exactly as he had written it and the record was broadcast in full on Sunday evening. “The reason for the lapse of time between the recording and broadcasting is that these Sunday evening talks on the national link are usually arranged some weeks in advance, and it was not known until just before Dr Dunsheath left the country that he could accept the service’s invitation to speak.”

NOTHING DELETED . ‘‘Dr Dunsheath’s Sunday evening talk on electricity supply in New Zealand was broadcast exactly as he wrote it and t as he himself spoke it for recording before he left New Zealand,” said Professor Shelley.

“SECOND EDITION”

The controversy was advanced a further stage today with the release for publication of an extract from a letter received’-in Auckland from Dr Dunsheath, dated May 22. The letter states, inter alia: “In the meantime, perhaps, I should say that I made a second, edition of the broadcast.” '

Dr Dunsheath states in the letter that this may account for “the difficulty in identifying certain parts” of the broadcast.