Mr. Pickwick
OVERS of Dickens will be well rewarded if they listen on Sunday afternoons to 4YA’s "Pickwick Papers." It was not announced who the narrator . was, but his voice was just about perfect for the purpose. Dickens, read aloud, can easily be overdone, and the present
reader of the series is careful to restrict his "effects" to a minimum. Such small touches as the introduction of "Sir Roger de Coverley" as music for "The Ball at Dingley Dell" is as effective as the host of superfluous noises sometimes used as radio | backeround. which
often defeat their purpose by making the words inaudible. I wish, though, that we could have had "Sir Roger’ performed by the instrumentalists to whom the dance music is allotted by Dickens himself-namely, "the two best fiddlers, and the only harp, in all Muggleton."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 284, 1 December 1944, Page 8
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138Mr. Pickwick New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 284, 1 December 1944, Page 8
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