Ballads
TATION 4YC is at present giving us repeat performance of an excellent series originally heard in Broadcast to Schools, entitled Tales that are Told. The emphasis is on the telling, background being given by only a brief in-troduction-all that is necessary to such reading as the excerpts from Beowulf or The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens. The latter was particularly well done by an anonymous reader who gave his. lines with gusto that added the full beauty lacking in cold print. Ballads are rarely heard over the air, though this is the verse form that is most easily comprehended at a single listening, and having appreciated Sir Patrick Spens more than I had thought possible, I should like to hear programmes of this nature oftener.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 659, 22 February 1952, Page 10
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126Ballads New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 659, 22 February 1952, Page 10
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