Making Our Own
FRIEND remarked the-other day that the best way to improve our radio programmes was to make more use of the BBC. Certainly the BBC programmes we get here are as good as they come, and I feel we could do with even more of their literary features such as Strange Intelligence; such musical surprises as the English version of Offenbach’s. Orpheus in the Underworld. But the NZBS productions can hold their own in the field of straight drama, The only BBC features I feel I could dispense with entirely are the travel features, well-produced though they are. Since I am the type who finds a scrub-fire-in the next street more enthralling than the oil-field holocaust in Texas I would gladly exchange both the BBC’s Tower of London series and_ their Islands of Britain for such local features as Frank A. Simpson’s Island Outposts of New Zealand. The island outposts I have listened to so far have one thing in common, that their shores have been accomplice or accessory-after-the-fact to the murder of many a fine ship. Mr. Simpson tells his stories well, and leaves his hearers with their sensibilities freshly attuned to the romance of their own history.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 9
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201Making Our Own New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 9
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