Favourite's Return
With unprecedented lack of fanfare, 1ZB pulled a surprise out of its sleeve one recent Sunday evening. It was the welcome return after some years’ absence of Lee Fore Brace (Forbes Eddy), whose earlier stories of sailing ships must have been among the most popular of all radio talks, The interval has not. impaired Lee Fore Brace’s skill, and his neatly balanced sentences delivered in his Scottish accent (an accent I always find irresistible) made In the Wake of the Convict Ships an absorbing .session. In the Quest for Corvo manner, he told, age the following up of clues in the Mitchell Library and elsewhere, the story of Thomas Salisbury Wright, a typical deportee, sent to Australia in 1786, and later moved to Norfolk Island, where ‘he died in 1843 "aged 105 years, a prisoner of the Crown,’ as Lee Fore Brace told us he read on the tombstone in the prison cemetery. Vividly and movingly, the speaker pictured the horrors of transportation; penal settlements, floggings and inhumanity, of "the good old days." This was no rehash of books, but the product of individual research by a connoisseur of the ‘period.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 532, 2 September 1949, Page 10
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193Favourite's Return New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 532, 2 September 1949, Page 10
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