Folksy
UNDOWNER (2ZB_ on Sunday nights) is a programme that succeeds in getting down on the script and then getting from script to listener the genuine folksy flavour of the Australian wayback. To do this once would be fair enough, but here we have a feature that keeps on doing it week after week without getting ideas above its station. Aided by Chips Rafferty’s drawl (his contract is evidently sufficiently watertight for him to fluff a line without losing that celebrated nonchalance) it saunters along, sometimes exploring the poetry of aboriginal legend, more often picking up round the camp-fire or at a shearers’ smoko stories of the faithfulness of cobbers and the flightiness of girls, soimetimes reciting Banjo Paterson, sometimes just chewing the fat about the rumness of life in genéral. Its very shapelessness kindles our fond illusion that this is Life, the Dinktim Oil mercifully unchannelled through the bowser station of Art.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 621, 25 May 1951, Page 11
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155Folksy New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 621, 25 May 1951, Page 11
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