Human Guinea Pia
HE new BBC feature now being if heard from 3YA, The Reader Takes Over, promises to be very good entertainment if subsequent sessions are up to the standard of the first. This programme appears to be a sort of mental dissection of Britain’s leading brains, C. E. M. Joad was the guinea pig in the first broadcast-an excellent choice, since Joad is well known to the public, his clarity provides good points for criticism, and more particularly since he is obviously in his element when justifying Joad. Attacked on the score of lack of originality, over-simplification and various other literary sins, he parries very neatly without ever really involving himself. The later part of the discussion turned on Joad’s professed dislike of most of the inventions of modern science, including cars, which he detests. I should like to have heard hint defend this point of view seriously, but Joad was not playing. Asked if he would have disliked Norman castles in their time as much as he dislikes aerodromes now, he replied simply, "No-I like castles." Which was after all the only way to treat a question like that. And to the counter question, "Then mightnit you like aerodromes if you lived 2,000 years from now?" Joad replied, "but there won’t be people 2,000 years from now. Haven’t you heard of the atom bomb?" .... To which there is-no answer.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 470, 25 June 1948, Page 9
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232Human Guinea Pia New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 470, 25 June 1948, Page 9
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