The Common Touch
RAVEL talks provide some of the best, and the worst, listening in our spoken programmes; they vary from a dreary recital of ".., and then I went, and there I saw .. ." to the vivid communication of the feelings of the trav-eller-explorer which makes the listener identify himself with the experience. To the second group belong Lenore Harty’s talks on a trip to Yugoslavia, an attractively simple narrative which leads her, in the company of a Yugoslav student, from Oxford through the Customs barrier marking the beginning of the Iron Curtain, into Yugoslavia itself, apd all the time gives the listener the sense of accompanying the party. Miss Harty has an excellent eye for small personal de-tails-the difficulties of getting a bath, the annua] haircut of many Yugoslay males, the food, the landladies-which, added together, give a lively and entertaining impression of one traveller’s experiences.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 10
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146The Common Touch New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 10
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