Inspired Detail
HE fact that some of the best music and the pick of the BBC talks are reserved for 1YA’s Sunday afternoon programme makes it perhaps the most dependable three hours’ listening of the week. Recently we‘have been hearing repeats of the fine. In the Words of Shakespeare series which can stand being re-played several times, and now Chapter and Verse is back again. In listening last Sunday to the programme on John Keats, which I missed on its first round, I was struck not only by the sincerity of the verse-reading, but by the characteristi¢é BBC attention to detail. The selection of poems was good, and the extracts from the letters arranged so as to illuminate the poems and show the development of Keats’s idea of poetry. But it was the> little things which caught my attention-the economy of the introduction, the fact that, while a soprano read "La Belle Dame Sans Merti," it was a contralto who read "Ode to Autumn," and the Slight but unmistakable Cockney accent of the man who read from these letters. These are the touches which please us by their revelation of extra care, afid which lift programmes above the mediocre.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 556, 17 February 1950, Page 10
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199Inspired Detail New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 556, 17 February 1950, Page 10
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