Versatile Miss Pain
]|-EATURE after feature packed with information and yet fully entertain-ing-it’s almost time we had a BBC feature on Nesta Pain herself to investigate the sources of such unflagging élan. This time the programme was Ants, ants in all their moods, militant material, hedonistic, altruistic and just plain practical; their social customs, their agriculture, their pleasures and their pets (Did) you ever!), Miss Pain was fortunate in this programme in finding an excellent foil for her own approach to science in the person of the Reverend Gould, a 17th Century natur-
alist who could be trusted to supply all. the moral lessons that she _ herself. scrupled_ to draw from the ant. Inci- | dentally the Rey. Gould’s description | of the deep respect and obedience the worker feels for her Queen, the "par-_ ticular acts of joy and exultation" which ) the ants are moved to perform at her coming, gave the broadcast -just that | extra touch of topicality it might other- | wise have needed, After all, it’s too soon | vet to expect us to be total abstainers |
from Coronation.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 11
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181Versatile Miss Pain New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 11
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