"The Flowers Are Not for You to Pick"
V E have to thank a large number of readers who have written or telephoned in response to our request for information, to say that ‘‘The Flowers Are Not for You to Pick" was the name, not of a film, but of a prizewinning radio play, which was written for the BBC by Tyrone Guthrie. It was produced locally, being broadcast by several stations about 1934. For those days it was something of a sensation, employing the "flashback" technique, A man was drowning arid his whole life came back to him, beginning with a memory of his childhood: when he was forbidden to pick flowers. This was the leit-motif of the whole play: he was a failure and not his own master. To, be so well remembered, it was clearly an effective production, but nobody can recall a it has ever been filmed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 223, 1 October 1943, Page 21
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151"The Flowers Are Not for You to Pick" New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 223, 1 October 1943, Page 21
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