With 'Er 'Ead Toocked Oonderneath 'Er Arm...
RECORDED series-not too new on the New Zealand air-which has replaced Book of Verse from 3YA is a sort of England and Scotland conducted tour, or radio Baedecker, called This Sceptred Isle. The first to be broadcast concerned the Tower of London, and consisted of a series of dramatic dialogues between prominent personages associated with the Tower’s history. When I tuned in, a,little late, William ‘the Conqueror was in conference with his architect; then we had Anne Boleyn on the eve of her execution and the Princess Elizabeth and her gaoler. The first of these it were perhaps best to
discuss no further; the other two were what is usual in these dramatisations. There were two more to follow. One, a most curious affair, depicted John Felton, the murdérer of the Duke of Buckingham in Charles I’s time, being threatened with the rack by Archbishop Laud and uttering indignant and eloquent denunciations of the practice of torture, which, we are assured, had much to do with its cessation. Lastly there was Colonel Blood, who tried to steal the Crown Jewels, entertaining Charles II. so much by persistent rudeness to his royal face that he was promptly enlisted in the royal bodyguard. But on the whole, how hollow, stilted and vaguely phoney are these spectral colloquies.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 386, 15 November 1946, Page 14
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