Vigorous History
[HE HERITAGE OF BRITAIN, 4YA’s new series, promises to be one of those the BBC does so superlatively well. The first episode dealt with the different groups that have gone to make up the British race, and while not adding appreciably to anyone’s knowledge of that subject, presented familiar information with such vigour and originality of approach as to make an interesting programme. The illustrations used were excellent, a brief extract chanted from the work of Caedmon being perhaps the most interesting since the rarest. If this programme had a lack it was in historical perspective, a thing difficult to achieve in radio, since the voices of our distant forbears must come through to us in the comprehensible speech of our contemporaries, and if they follow one another too closely, the elapsing centuries are telescoped. However, I liked this programme, and the intelligent use of a Polish immigrant as narrator, linked the past with the future vividly and without over-emphasis. /
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 11
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163Vigorous History New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 11
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