Grand Manner
+ \W HAT sort of a man was Ferdinand Magellan? Why was he killed? I remember how this ripple of curiosity went through me whenever I came across the tiny paragraph in our history books telling of his* voyage. It seems strange now that an event so startling should have been so negligently-one book said ‘he was killed in the Spice Islands instead of the Philippines-snd slightly recorded. Naturally, then, the BBC feature The Voyage of Magellan heard from 3YC gripped my attention, Conceived as a verse chronicle by Laurie Lee and opening with the majestic Re‘quiem Mass for Magellan it continues with one of the 18 survivors recounting his strange adventures to a blind beggar in Seville. Bernard Miles, the "Ancient Mariner" of the story," has the kind of voice which makes poetry out of ordinary speech and which by the same token gives to verse the reality of conversation. Set in an age when men gave greater rein to their emotions and mirrofing the life of heroes chosen by Magellan from the criminal riff-raff of the day the story allows scope for what Dorothy Sayers would describe as a "thundering piece of theatre in the grand manner." ; °
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 11
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201Grand Manner New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 11
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