TUSITALA, Teller Of Tales
teller has released his magic spell to enthrall his company. The bard in olden times enjoyed an honoured place in the community, and was responsible for the handing down of the history, legends and fairy-tales of his race. Some bards carried a harp and won fame as minstrels. Even today, the appeal of the bard still holds, and "‘Aesop’s Fables," first told so many centuries ago, are still recounted, and their wisdom is as pointed as ever. Chaucer’s "Tales of the Canterbury Pilgrims" have become classics and Hans Andersen and the Grimm Brothers have preserved fairy tales that will delight generations yet to come. A" through the ages, the storyHere in New Zealand, Sir George Grey collected and had printed the legends of the Maori, thus preserving
for the delight of the student and the reader some of the most beautiful legends of any native race. The Maori had no written language, and these tales were handed down by word of mouth. The modern story-teller, at a microphone, through the magic powers of radio, weaves his spell in thousands of homes, and has listeners at countless firesides. There are always many listeners for 2ZB’s sessions of ‘"Tusitala, Teller of Tales," in which the modern storyteller, ""Tusitala," recounts stories with many novel twists. "Tusitala, Teller of Tales," is what the natives of Samoa called Robert Louis Stevenson, and the name is very apt for the modern storyteller, who is on the air from 2ZB every Monday and Wednesday evening at 7.45
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 65, 20 September 1940, Page 48
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254TUSITALA, Teller Of Tales New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 65, 20 September 1940, Page 48
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