NOAH AND THE SILKWORMS
\V HEN Adam delved and Eve. span, as the poet has it, the lady may well have been spinning a silken thread taken from a pair of silkworms. The BBC reflect the current interest in these tiny creatures in their amusing play, The Worm That Never. Turned, in which the main characters are a pair of silkworms from the Ark, a Chinese Emperor whose wife is credited with the discovery of silk, and an American Noah. This play is described as "a light-hearted dramatised feature based on the legends and early history of silk
and the silkworm." It was originally heard in the BBC North of England Service, and it will be broadcast now from 3YA at 8.0 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22, repeating from the same station at 4.0 p.m. on Sunday, April 26. The Worm That Never Turned was written and produced by Denis Mitchell, and he introduces at the end of the programme a small boy whose enthusiastic efforts to cultivate silkworms were strongly resisted by his parents. The actors are Deryck Guyler (narrator). Sarah Leigh (the Emperor's wife Si Ling) and Francis de Wolf (the Em. peror).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 17
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195NOAH AND THE SILKWORMS New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 17
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