John Scott worked for a time for the ‘rurals team’, which produced radio programmes on agricultural topics for nearly 40 years from the late 1950s. Listen to Scott’s recollections of learning the job, at a time when his New Zealand accent was frowned upon.
Transcript
John Herring was a rather more cultured fellow, he was English so he had a rather better voice. I started with Fred Barnes, that great character who went on to Country calendar. And actually Fred thought that I was too much of a Kiwi and had too much of a Kiwi accent so he would've preferred Dr. Gordon Edgar to do it but that didn't happen. But we got to know the likes of Fred and work greatly with Fred and Hilda Carlisle, Tom Phillipsen and Heugh Chappell and these people and sure we were amateurs but we got to know and I don't think we had any formal training but to more or less stick to the limits and be reasonable and be understandable.
Using this item
Reference: 30656
This item has been provided for private study purposes (such as school projects, family and local history research) and any published reproduction (print or electronic) may infringe copyright law. It is the responsibility of the user of any material to obtain clearance from the copyright holder.