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‘THE Reserved notice that marks the spot at 7.15 on Friday night from 2YA was moved aside last Friday to reveal a rather interesting BBC programme by Jennifer Wayne, who wrote the English Theatre series, this time on the Eccentricities of English Men of Letters. The first of this series was fairly general in its approach, and partly devoted (the BBC is as fond of morals as the Duchess in Wonderland) to pointing out with John Stuart Mill that eccentricity is a flower that blooms only in the Garden of Liberty. Though Miss Wayne is hardly likely to be short of material for her session-there’s Swift and the hole in the table-cloth, Dr. Johnson and the hot potato, and countless others as hard to forget as 1066,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 369, 19 July 1946, Page 15
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129Odds Bodikins New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 369, 19 July 1946, Page 15
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