Quix for Hix
DID appreciate the straightforwardness of the NZBS programme Knight of the Doleful Countenance, which struck a blow against cultism straight away by eschewing the more literary Don Keeotee in favour of the stoutly anglicised Don Quixote. A minor point perhaps, but in my case it meant that this account of Cervantes and his knight could graft itself. without effort on. to those scraps of knowledge left in my mind from school and story-book days. Exposition and quotation were nicely balanced in the programme; he had sizeable chunks of both and none of the cross-cutting from narrative to drama which leaves the listener bewitched by technique at the.expense of comprehension, Barry Cookson’s_ reading of the commentary was firm without being heavy-handed, and Frederick Farley’s very distinctive voice (far too distinctive, I always feel, in the ‘At Close of Day programmes) sharpened up the satiric edge of the quotations in a manner most diverting.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 12
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155Quix for Hix New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 12
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