" A. J. Alan " is one of the few
people who have really attempted to exploit the possibilities of the microphone as an eminently suitable- medium for story-telling. He is radio's troubadour. 'Re has wisely refrained from broadcasting too often, and he has equally wisely maintained his reputation for being the mystery-man of the wireless programmes. He has broadcast for many years and yet even now nobody knows who lie is. The- real secret of his success, however, is in the fact that there is nothing literary about his tales : the listener has the enjoyable illusion that he is actually being told a tale, Familiarly and confidentially. " A. J. A.'s " territory is a very limited one, and it is a pity that other story-tellers do not occasionally' turn their attention to the medium of wireless.
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