"MAN BORN TO BE KING"
. Sir-May I suggest that the Dorothy Sayers’ series of Radio plays, The Man Born to be King, should again be broadcast over the New Zealand YA stations. As a New Zealand visitor to South Africa, I was interested to find that the plays were heard this year from Capetown and Durban on Friday nights and from Johannesburg on Sunday afternoons. The SABC so arranged the times that the eleventh play dealing with the Crucifixion came over the air on ‘Good Friday, and the last of the series, based on the Resurrection, was given on Easter Day. The BBC Director of Religious Bftoadcasting, in his introduction to the text of this remarkable play cycle, expressed a hope that the recordings would be used ‘at intervals of about five years. The reason is obvious. There is at present a genetation of New Zealand children who were too young to appreciate the plays when they were last on the air,
but who are now old enough to find them a source of interest and inspiration. In any case I am sure many adults, particularly those who have read the text of the plays, would enjéy hearing them
again,
J. S.
HATHERLY
(Western Transvaal).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 544, 25 November 1949, Page 7
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