Journey Into Time
LLONA PRIESTLEY’S talks People Don’t Chdhge are bitter, cathartic pills with a chocolate coating, and very, very effective. The opening of each episode is deceptively and pleasantly suburban, with nice normal uncle- * nephew-friend trialogue about lawnmow-
ing and such, but soon Uncle in his matter-of-fact but go-getting way has led nephews and audience up the garden path to something very like the everlasting bonfirelast week to‘the Circus Maximus and to the Colosseum.
Uncle's description of the chariot race was well up to NZBS standards and he had a more thrilling finale on which to deploy his virtuosity. His stroke-by-stroke account of a gladiatorial combat might have come direct from the lips of a panis-et-circenses McCarthy. At the conclusion of this trip into time we feel inclined to plead, as the authoress intended we should, "But people aren't like that any more!"-then have an echo answer "Remember Belsen."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 400, 21 February 1947, Page 10
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150Journey Into Time New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 400, 21 February 1947, Page 10
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