The Cuckoo Bird
PROGRAMME containing a few) bars of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, poems by Shelley and Shakespeare (read by Barbara Jefford), an ancient Irish air, and reports of naturalists, mediaeval and modern, was held to- | gether by the sheer force of personality | that the cuckoo apparently possesses. | This programme, The Cuckoo, written for the BBC by James Fisher and Geof- | frey Grigson, was unusually interestingnot only begause of the material itself, | but also because of its extraordinary | diversity. One felt at the end of the) half-hour that the bird had been dealt, with capably, historically, scientifically | and artistically, and with a fitting respect that, at the outset, neither its voice nor its habits had appeared to
warrant,
Loquax
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 729, 3 July 1953, Page 11
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118The Cuckoo Bird New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 729, 3 July 1953, Page 11
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