Frightfully BBC
] HAVE heard nothing quite so like the Western Brothers as the recent re-broadcast from 2YA of a discussion between the BBC’s John Davenport and Aldous Huxley on Huxley’s much-re-viewed Ape and Essence. Admittedly
the interview is ten months old, but | when we consider that Handley’s topicalities manage to survive an even longer time-lag with vitality unimpaired we are forced to the conclusion that this interview was merely another example of that death-in-life (a by-pro-duct of the atomic age) which Mr. Davenport and Mr. Huxley discuss with such glib gloom. But perhaps "discuss" is too strong a word for Mr, Davenport, whose favourite method of prolonging the agony is a depressed and dying "Yes-s-s-s," though to do him justice he was responsible for what may be considered by connoisseurs of leading questions as a perfect gem, "I suppose you've got some rather beastly things to say about bacteriological warfare?" Sure
enough, Mr. Huxley had.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 530, 19 August 1949, Page 11
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157Frightfully BBC New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 530, 19 August 1949, Page 11
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