Unfortunate Coincidences
‘THE leek waved proudly from 1YA and 1YC on St. David’s Day. Rev. S. Bostock-Jone2s’s Story of St. David's Day (BBC) brought us some superb examples of Welsh singing; *German’s Welsh Rhapsody was played; and, to crown the evening, The Rescuers was | presented -that moving story of the Rhondda Valley mining disaster of 1877, which, I believe, is the finest documentary the’ BBC has ever made. All this was fitting; but, unhappily, some unconsciously ironical contrasts in related programmes rather took the edge off the tributes. A day earlier, the NZBS What They Said At The Time session, "When Wales Beat the All Blacks," despite the dispassionate approach, pre--sented the Welsh as anything ut thorough sportsmen. And, immediately after Rev. Bostock-Jones’s talk an episode of Lady on the Screen showed the egregious Philip Odell meeting an unpleasant Welsh "private eye,’ Harvey O. Jones, the embodiment of crumby cupidity. As the Welsh seldom figure on the radio, these coincidences were unfortun- | |
ate, especially since the race appears not to appreciate irony. Certainly, Mr. Bos-tock-Jones seemed unware of possible incongruity in praising St. David, an 8th Century Archbishop, for his denunciation. of heresy with "triumphant loudness.’
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 662, 14 March 1952, Page 12
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196Unfortunate Coincidences New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 662, 14 March 1952, Page 12
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