Guy Fawkes
MPRESSED though I was by the Guy Fawkes Commemoration Progrdmme from 2YA on the Night Itself I felt that the authorities perhaps carried topitality a little too far when they put it on at 7.50, a time when keen guyers were out and about, active participants rather than passive listeners. When the last match was spent and the last cinder blackened would have been more fitting, since by that time listeners, wearied of their juvenile incendiarism, would have provided an excellent culture for the growth of historic melancholia. The slight dampening of the party spirit which it effected in me is a proof of the potency it exercised in spite of outside competition. It would be too much to say that the programme made Guy Fawkes the man come alive to me (it would take more than one radio programme to unwind the- cerements. of tradition), but it did make me uncomfortably aware of the contrast between our lighthearted exploitation of an occasion and the bitter realities of the original November 5. Even the final waggishness of "I always said Guy Fawkes was the only man who went into Parliament with the right idea" could not cancel out the effect of Fawkes’s tortured groans.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 10
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206Guy Fawkes New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 10
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