Barbara Jefford's Readings
NLY an occasionally sharply-drawn breath marred the perfection of Barbara Jefford’s exquisite reading of verse by New Zealand: women poets. The poems were well chosen. It was a particularly good idea, I thought, to limit Eileen Duggan to a selection of her religious verse, which made as a programme a pleasingly complete version of antipodean Christianity, and Barbara Jefford’s clear, light voice, the perfect éxpression of it. Her readings from Robin Hyde I missed-and wondered that, from a station rather parsimoniously given to repeating programmes, this should have suffered the indignity of a single performance. The Ursula Bethell readings were as beautifully done as the Eileen Duggan, the poetry being spoken in a sensitive but appare@tly natural way which only an accomplished actress could achieve.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 11
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129Barbara Jefford's Readings New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 11
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