A Radio Review -- - - HOPING for an occasion
for pleasant disagreement,. I waited patiently to hear what Mr. J. B. Priestley would have to say last Monday when he was due to inaugurate the new series, " To an Unnamed Listener." His chosen victim was the High Brow. Mr. Priestley has-often expressed his views on the High Brow, in reviews, in essays, trenchantly, unmistake- ably ; but I wanted to hear them delivered with all the potency of the spoken word. I waited in vain. Mr. Priestley did not speak. He had apparently come without his script. He is not a frequent broadcaster (indeed, I do not recall that he has ever broadcast before), and so perhaps the omission was not so glaringly comical as it seemed. We were told to stand by while another copy was found for him. But five, ten, fifteen minutes went by and all we had for entertainment was the dreary, punctual ticking of the studio clock. The script was nowhere to be found. Apology was made to the millions of waiting
listeners and we are to hear Mr. Priestley on Monday. * , *
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