Visit to Baghdad
OOD programme arrangement and intrinsically interesting material made "With Freya Stark in Baghdad," one of the Travellers’ Tales from 2YA on Sunday mornings, one of the best programmes I have heard recently. Perhaps the atmosphere of Baghdad is one of the easiest to convey to the listener (Fitzpatrick would tell you it’s just a matter of invoking Lisa Lehmann) but the producer of the feature is anxious to give us some idea of the many Baghdads, to separate the Baghdad of fantasy from the Baghdad of fact. So at the beginning we hear "Chu Chin Chow," "In a Persian Market," Fitzpatrick himself, and a quotation from Hassan. This is followed up by readings from Freya Stark’s diary with other suitable illustrations, such as the rendering of western tunes on native instruments by the hotel band, or the hissing and roaring of that modern ship of the desert, the train. But the producer and Freya Stark have made it clear that though West meets East in Baghdad they have not cancelled each other out, and that Hassan the confectioner can rub shoulders with a young Arab reporter button-holing the English lady for information on the Beveridge Plan.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 375, 30 August 1946, Page 12
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