Great Themes
E could ‘perhaps claim the title of First Lady of N.Z. Radio Drama for Maria Dronke, whose splendid series Aspects of Great Drama has just concluded from 2YA. She has both warmth and insight, and there is a kind of majestic urgency about her presentation that makes mental flight extremely difficult. The course was a strenuous one, covering 25 centuries and two continents. Indeed, I felt at times it was too strenuous, particularly in the last talk (on the moderns), when it was necessary to cover a great deal of ground that
one would have liked to picnic on, I can only suggest that Productions come to our rescue by doing for Lorea, Obey and Anouilh what they have been doing with such competence for John Gundry, C, Gordon Glover and William Shakespeare. Moments in History ‘THE BBC Civis Britannus-a Study of the Don Pacifico Affair, was fascinating to listen to, yet so laced in with authenticity that enjoyment was felt to be merely an agreeable by-product of the educative process.. Credit for this happy result must go to writer-director Christopher Sykes (who was also responsible for the programme on Edward VII in the Throne and People series). His recreation of such figures as Lord Palmerston, Queen Victoria, the young Gladstone and the Prince Consort was masterly, seasoned with a deft irony that has the effect of keeping them in their place in history. Yet at the end of the programme he managed to take his tongue out of his cheek long enough to send us away with some long, long thoughts about the Lessons of History.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 724, 29 May 1953, Page 10
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271Great Themes New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 724, 29 May 1953, Page 10
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