RADIO
LAST week there were three most interesting programmes on The Technique of Acting, which I had missed when they were first broadcast in the early summer. It may well be that I have myself a vocational or professional interest in the subject ; but anyone who goes to the play or film, or listens to radio drama, could be expected to find pleasure and profit in these programmes. Producers and players were speaking of the mysteries of their craft, and some very sensible talking there was ; The Technique of Acting never degenerated into peeps behind the scenes.
The third of the series—on radio acting—was perhaps the most interesting ; fur radio drama is an art all the more stimulating for its narrowness. Mr. Louis MacNeice and Mr. Felix Felton exposed some of the difficulties of the control panel ; Miss Gladys Young, Mr. Norman Shelley and Mr. Ivor Samson dealt (illustratively) with the dramatic job that is vox et praeterea nihil. Very good scripts by Mr. Malcolm Baker Smith ; although there was the old trouble of maintaining an appearance of free discussion when the speakers were, in fact, reading their words. This is something of an art, and by no means all of those taking part had mastered it.
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