Human Interest
SOUND case for the longer documentary broadcast could be made out on the basis of the BBC feature dealing with W. G. Grace, heard again recently from 1YA. This programme, although lasting for 45 minutes, is not a minute too long. The attention is held by the variety of voices, the admirable blend of narrative and dramatisation, and the unpatroniging script. The author and compére is John Arlott, whose Hampshire accent became familiar to New Zealand listeners during the BBC broadcasts of the Test matches; his enthusiasm for the game, his love for "the Old Man" and his gift for writing make this a memorable programme. The prodigious figure of Grace, with his great beard, his deep laugh, his tireless energy, his showmanship and his supremacy as a cricketer is so built up as to transmit the feeling of a whole era. The dramatisation of big moments in his games and the tributes of celebrated cricketers who had known him make a broadcast which must appeal even to those who find cricket dull. John Arlott has solved the problem of how to make a cricketing programme of universal interest by employing the human. qualities of his fruity and fabulous sub-
ject.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 541, 4 November 1949, Page 10
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205Human Interest New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 541, 4 November 1949, Page 10
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