Sweet Thames
[-OR me Colin Wills is beginning to be a name to be reckoned with. I first heard him recounting his trip to West Africa where, among other things, he described his visit to an old native who had second sight and who told Wills he could see a lot of other people with him. Since then he has written a book about Africa, His The Thames, a journey from the Source to the Sea, heard over 3YC was equally impressive. What with the
historical associations, the legends and the people who live close by there is no lack of material. but it is the approach which counts. Here Colin Wills acted with discretion. There were scholarly annotations but these were kept ---
down in number and gained point by being read in a different voice, there were excerpts from talks with people who lived nearby but no inordinate passion for realism was allowed to swamp the script. And finally, though such a talk springs from a poetic impulse, this impulse being allowed neither to spill over nor gush, moved and illuminated from within, flushing an otherwise documentary narrative with the glow of deeper feeling.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 659, 22 February 1952, Page 11
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195Sweet Thames New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 659, 22 February 1952, Page 11
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