Gentle Whimsy
HE title of the BBC series of plays heard from 1YD on Saturdays, M ystery and Imagination, is a somewhat misleading one. To me it suggests Edgar Allan Poe and Grand Guignol, certainly not the engaging~ group of whimsical and blandly supernatural tales the programme offers. The plays are all in that somewhat genteel tradition of fancy popular before the First World War, and in the mood more of Arthur Machen and James ,Stephens than of Algernon Blackwood and M. R. James. Fantasy and Imagination would be more suitable for the sessions I have heard — Lord Dunsany’s characteristic "Golden Dragon City," telling of the magic casement in a London apartment-house which revealed a strange world, "Uncle Arthur," the amusing tale of a bun-eating elephant,. trumpeting "I’m ‘Your Uncle Arthur," who foists himself on a suburban family, and the gentle ghost story "The Church by the Sea."
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 550, 6 January 1950, Page 10
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150Gentle Whimsy New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 550, 6 January 1950, Page 10
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