"REVIEW": New Session from 4YC

New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 14

"REVIEW": New Session from 4YC

BOOKS, music, the theatre, art and architecture are among the topics to be discussed in Review, a new programme which Particia .Guest is to conduct from 4YC. It will be heard at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays. Verse readings and reviews of concerts and prgauctions by both, visiting and local artists will also be included in the programmes. The first edition of Review, to be broadcast on March 18, will begin with a talk by Roy Parsons about Joyce Cary and Michael Joseph-the first of a series called Books and People. Charles Brasch will read his new poem which takes the form of a letter to Colin Newbury, written ftom Thurlby Domain, near Queenstown, and the programme will end with a review by Professor J. A. Passmore of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company’s production of Othello. Professor Passmore has the chair of philosophy at the University of Otago. The second Review will include another talk by Roy Parsons and a review by Jean Ballard of the Stratford-upon-Avon players production of As You Like It. Miss Ballard is lecturer in English at Dunedin Teachers’ Training College and is well known for her own productions with students. Colin Newbury will wind up the Review with an introductory talk to a series of | progfammes on 17th Century verse and music. In later editions of Review Mrs. Guest will introduce the verse and Mary

Martin, who lectures in music at Otago University, will. introduce, the music. Among those to be heard later in Review are David Hall, M. K. Joseph, Dorothy White, R. M. Burdon and Basil Dowling.