"Eye-Witness'
STIMULATED by a Viewsreel paragraph I re-read "Robinson Crusoe" for the first time since. my beard grew, so that by the time the BBC "Have You Read: Robinson Crusoe?" reached my local station, I had already spent an etié..
intoxicating week living on Crusoe’s island and travelling with him through Spain, Cochin-China, Tartary and other odd parts of the globe. What the BBC’s excellent session did was to bring me down to earth, to remind me that this world was the creation of the mind of a stay-at-home ‘journalist. True he had perhaps visited Alexander Selkirk who had returned from living for five years alone on the island of Juan Fernandez, in which case "Robinson Crusoe’ must rank as the world’s most successful interview. The seasoned and adventurous traveller or eye-witness is himself often an intolerable bore. The man who can give us the illusion that we are with him seeing something outside our experience has done something inestimable for uswhether it be a Daniel Defoe writing a circumstantial account of countries he had never set foot in, or Mr. C. J. A. Moses tapping a wooden cup with a pencil and reconstructing a London Test Match from coded cables at the ABC.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 329, 12 October 1945, Page 9
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204"Eye-Witness' New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 329, 12 October 1945, Page 9
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