Stepping Around in Asia
JROGRAMMES stich as Asia Has a Plan aré seldom étiti¢ing but usually wotth-while. Perhaps bécauSe he is e6nScious of this, D. G. Bridson uses alricst a barker’s téchnique to get ts ifthe playitig of some torchy theme song from a contefnporary Indian filth, which the aiinolineér assufes me I'll still be whistling in 50 years’ time (unlikely), and théfi some gay chit-chat aboiit whiy I can’t pet fish-suppers in Lancashire. Once we're caged, however, the témperature drops and thé ifitellectual level rises-from now ofi fio céfeessiofig até to be made to paifiless listening. Fortiifately, thé ifidterial presented ig importdafit efoligh and interesting enough to need no bush, and the documentary techniqué is enough. But I would have appreciated a little more visual help than that provided by such clichés as "The road grew ever more narrow and tortuous," and there are surely better Ways of getting listeners from one place to another than telling them: "We've talked 4 lot about Ceylon aiid tow we fust be Of Gur Way again." Hues of
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 10
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179Stepping Around in Asia New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 10
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