Listener at Sea
AFTER listening to the first two of "the four talks in the series The Count and Captain Williams, I find I am stil] a little puzzled by the rambling and at times incomjrehensible method in which the story is toid, It is, I suppose, the natural form of reminiscence, but the scripts were written by Kathleen Newick, though much of them are in Captain Williams’s own wofds, and one might have expected in the editing more help for the listener. At times one is hardly certain whether the action is taking place on the Seeadler, an island, or the Manila, and the sequence of events is almost always in doubt. The voice, unlike punctuation marks, ‘does not give full warning of parentheses or digressions, and Captain Williams’s method of telling a story and then re- . marking, "But I am running ahead of myself, and must go back to. ." ends in confusion for the listener. The material in these talks is good, and the narration interesting, but they are difficult to follow.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 762, 26 February 1954, Page 10
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174Listener at Sea New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 762, 26 February 1954, Page 10
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