Stories for Children
HE art of story-telling will not be forgotten as long as there is radio, and many a Kai Lung unrolls-his mat invitingly from the privacy of the broadcasting studio. On a recent Wednesday from 2YA I heard one of the most enjoyable programmes of racontage I have heard for a long time in one of the special children’s sessions with which a benevolent service sought to lighten the pre-Christmas burdens of the family woman. The first story was Kipling’s The Elephant Child, and the second a’ South American folk-tale I had not heard before, The Lazy People (the latter complete with a very sound moral denied the former). Both stories were ideal for verbal presentation, and so completely transported was I by the histrionic power of their presentation that I was tempted to cry at session’s end that here was one greater than Tusitala or William Austin. However, comparisons are odious, particularly since the Kai Lung of the special children’s session has the inestimable advantage of being a composite figure with as many voices as Siva has hands and at his disposal all the sound effects provided by the NZBS juke-box.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 445, 2 January 1948, Page 6
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194Stories for Children New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 445, 2 January 1948, Page 6
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