I enjoy listening to Jim Mora on Radio New Zealand. There are a number of reasons for this. He has a pleasant manner and a calm , not to say soothing, quality to his voice. Neither declamatory nor strident, he chats away to his listeners and his guests as if we and they were sharing a quiet table and a couple of flat whites on an otherwise uneventful Sunday morning. He brings a sort of calm intelligence to the microphone, a quality which alas is sadly in ever short supply in the hectic, opinionated world of broadcasting today. He is also scrupulously fair in his interviews: probing but not dominating; conceding and not hectoring, in sharp contrast with others from the same stable, some of whom approach an interview as if it were the last fence in the Grand National, to be overridden at all costs.
