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ONE of the best series I’ve heard from 1YC for months is The Story of the Folk Song, a series by Augusta A. Ford. It’s not often that I feel that half an hour is too short a time for a talk; in this case, I could cheerfully hear twice the amount each time. The songs Miss Ford uses to illustrate het talks are nearly all unfamiliar and intriguing, and, I suspect, come from rare recordings in the possession of the speaker. There is time to hear only tantalising portions of some of these, and I would not care to "sactifice any of the informative and scholarly commentaty. There would, indeed, be justification here for playing some of the songs twice throtigh, once before the comments and once after. Miss Ford speaks with easy authority, if sometimes with a flattish intonation. However, her American accent gives Ppiquancy to the programmes and in a way I cannot quite analyse seems to me extraordinarily appropriate to the material she presents.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 10
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170Easy Authority New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 10
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