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The Art of Listening 聆听的艺术 By Martin Armstrong 马丁·阿姆斯特朗 ? There are few people, I imagine, except those who are already good lecturers or orators, to whom speaking on the wireless comes naturally. Like acting, it is an art which must be patiently acquired. Many lively, self-confident folk don’t believe this. “Nonsense!” says one,. “You’ve simply to be your own natural self, foreget the studio and the microphone and talk as you would talk to a group of friends.” There is a simple cure for this flattering conviction, namely to treat him to the humiliating experience of a recording of himself. Th