Conducted Tour
’M a constant traveller on these BBC conducted tours that the NZBS is so fond of sponsoring, but I think I go along more to meet the BBC personalities than with any idea of broadening my geographical horizons. Last week I went on a tour of London by Thames water-bus and met all the old gangWynford Vaughan Thomas in the bus, of course, and sketching an enthusiastic point-to-point between satellites: variously placed in the Sailor’s Club, Wapping Police Station, the Shot Tower, the enginee room of the Tower Bridge and the Tower itself. Yet I was rather surprised to have a _ heap of’ rubble pointed out to me on the South Bank and to be told that from this, come 1951, would rise some of the buildings for the Festiyal of Britain. One is resigned, of course, to being transported out of one’s country by a travel feature (New Zealand tours seem to be ear-marked for Radio New Zealand), but when they take us out of our decade I’m inclined to ask whether our journey is strictly
necessary,
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 671, 16 May 1952, Page 11
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182Conducted Tour New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 671, 16 May 1952, Page 11
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