Shadow Circus
OMETHING like an un-English flavour has crept into the programmes recently. Our announcers in Atckland have been grappling manfully with the names of athletes from Nigetia and Ceylon, the French Broadcasting Service has a Chopin: Centennial Programme for us, and on Sunday from 4YA we had a surprise from Switzerland. It all makes a welcome relief from Anglo-Saxon ubiquity. The Swiss Circus, however, though genuinely made in Switzerland, had little in it to remind us of its origin. ‘It might have been made by the BBC, except that the latter are too experienced to try so unrewarding a task
as reducing the sights, the colours, and the smells of the big top to the shadowy presences of a narrator’s voice and some sound effects. Some of the asides of the commentator suggested that a straight talk
about the training of the animals and acrobats might have been more interesting. I should think, thaqugh, that a juvenile audience, having, as it were, a vested interest in circuses and with more vivid imaginations than their elders, would find The Swiss Circus better listening.
K.J.
S.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 11
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185Shadow Circus New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 11
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