In Foreign Lands Forlorn
VIVIDLY remember some illustrations in a French periodical of the last century, showing a_ cartoonist’s idea of the English tourist abroad-fatuous-faced, buck-toothy women with solar topees, mannish boots and parasols, and apoplectic, red-cheeked, walrusmoustached men with monocles and masses of impedimenta. The delightful programme, "The British Abroad," in the BBC series The Heritage of Britain was hardly less frank in its portrayal of the wandering Englishman as foreigners see him. While it, naturally, paid tribute to British enterprise and the spirit. of adventure, it also laughed heartily and often at the sublime English disregard for "lesser breeds without the law," the sense of superiority
and the determination not to do as the Romans do. A _ refreshing and intelli-gently-scripted piece of self-criticism this, even though tempered with a certain pride in English eccentricities. Are New Zealanders mature enough yet, I wonder, to produce similar programmes? I should dearly like to hear one, written; preferably, by A, R. D. Fairburn.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 10
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164In Foreign Lands Forlorn New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 10
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