Seasons Return, But Not To Me Returns...
HE life of a Viewsreel commentator has, there is no denying, its disadvantages; especially for one whom a certain timidity in musical pontificating drives to take particular note of literary broadcasts for his material. He cannot help noticing when the group of stations which he covers have run through their rather limited repertoire of literary recordings and have decided it is now safe to start over again. There is, seen from the proper angle, no very obvious objection to such a repetition; the commentator (or any other listener) is not so rare and perceptive a being that he cannot very well afford to listen to a Hamlet soliloquy spoken by Barrymore, or Yeats’ "Wild Swans'at Coole" as read in the BBC Anthologies, or the close of Paradise Lost in the "Days of Creation" series, not twice but many more times, without losing anything and even with profit. But he cannot help noticing it, and when striving to make up his weekly quota, cursing the fact that he has written up such and such before and cannot for the life of him think of anything new to say about it. And indeed, though these programmes can well bear repetition, there is something to be said for new blood.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 13
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214Seasons Return, But Not To Me Returns... New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 13
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