Norfolk Island Programme
PE lage EEE ee eS en aa oe la HE title of the new ZB Sunday. night programme Isle of the Singing Pines suggests that Norfolk Island will ultimately be for the New Zealand lyricist what Hawaii is to the American. But that day has not yet come, and Bryan O’Brien was content in the first of the three programmes to consider the romance of the past rather than the romance (lei’d girls, muted dance music from the tourist hotel) of Norfolk Island’s probable future. There are so many stories in the island’s past that are worth the telling, even though these may evoke incredulous horror from gently-nurturéd listeners, for in this rough island’s story the path of duty trodden so inescapably by both convicts and warders was a trifle gory. Bryan O’Brien is an excellent storyteller, and if om occasion he succumbed to the lure of the literary phrase ("A vision of verdant loveliness met our wondering gaze"; "the giant tree lifting beseeching arms to the sky") he more than made up for it by the deep and sincere emotion that spoke in his narrative as he trod his via dolorosa from Bloody Bridge to Headstone,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 477, 13 August 1948, Page 19
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200Norfolk Island Programme New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 477, 13 August 1948, Page 19
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