Sheep in Goats' Clothing
VERY day as I walk in the grey shadow of the current weather report or news broadcast I console myself with the thought that every day in every way the past is getting brighter and better. There is a relentless process of whitewashing going on that makes one realise that even the future, given time, will be quite respectable. (They debarnacled Bligh in six episodes-maybe even Mussadiq will turn out nice again.) And I have recently started listening to 2YA’s Scapegoats of History, a series whose worthy aim it is to rescue from the obloquy of posterity those whose fair fame has been blackened by "the plotting of evil men." Last week Strafford, this week Montrose. The programmes_ are vivid and exciting, and the idea itself extraordinarily fecund. It’s rather like deciding something had better be done about the kitchen, and when that job’s finished you notice for the first time that the dining room could do with a coat of paint. Montrose and Strafford emerged from their half-hour’s goingover without a stain on their characters, but I must say it left Queen Henrietta Maria, who had .the misfortune to figure in both episodes, looking more than ready’ for brush and pail.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 650, 14 December 1951, Page 21
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208Sheep in Goats' Clothing New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 650, 14 December 1951, Page 21
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