Wanted—Some Conrad
SHOULD like to offer a suggestion to any of our radio performers whose special delight it is to read aloud to us. I should like to ask them to give us a little Conrad now and then. I don’t remember ever hearing Conrad read_on the air, and I wonder why not. » His sonorous, rounded, shapely paragraphs would seem excellent, material for the purpose. Lord Jim was supposed, wasn’t it, to be a yarn told at a single sitting by the long-winded Marlowe? I can imagine nothing more blissful, on a cold winter’s evening, than to sit by a roaring fire and listen to, say, Professor Shelley, Professor -T. D. Adams, or O. L. Simmance reading this book aloudwith a minimum of background music, please. Or why not one of those interminable, lovely tales of the Malayan coast, say Almayer’s Folly; or a short story or two; or those stories in which the very sound of the great ocean is incarnate as in a sea-shell held to the ear. The listening audience for such programmes would be less in number than for the average serial; but how much more intensely interested!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 347, 15 February 1946, Page 9
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192Wanted—Some Conrad New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 347, 15 February 1946, Page 9
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