SPEAKING FOR THEMSELVES
| FTER all we have read, seen and heard of Hitler’s Germany and its collapse, it was surprising to find in the first part of Follow My Leader, a programme which retold the dismal story with such force. Its method was simply to dramatise three typical people _--business-man, party glamour-girl, and embittered baron-and allow them to speak for themselves, In a way, the programme undoubtedly made its point, for it showed, through these three case-his-tories, how the Nazi spirit corrupted business and motherhood and soldiership. We were left in no doubt that they were all responsible, as far as individuals can be, for a monstrous. system of wrong; vet somehow the monitory voice at the end rang hollow. The programme had done its work too well; what we had heard was not case-histories, but people. How different in effect and feeling was Return to India (also from 1YC, a few nights later), which surveyed with a lively and cheerful eye the growth of the new India, Between the two stories, there was the enormous and obvious difference between a bad dream and a fine morning. And the second had something extra-an affection for people.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 10
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196SPEAKING FOR THEMSELVES New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 10
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