AFTER THE BAGPIPES
the Scottish Half hour, broadcast every ‘Tuesday from 3YA, must be something of a headache for programme organisers, since the human mind tends to run in a,circle which is, all too often, not charmed. Scotland is famous for bagpipes, That is where we begin, and where we shall end unless we watch ourselves; and on listening to some of the earlier sessions I found them unrewarding for this reason. Now, however, the station has introduced a speaker with a tongue as curious and persuasive as any Scot could wish for. Taking us on an imaginary pilgrimage around the country, he has a convenient narrative on which to thread the tunes and songs of the Highlands and the Lowlands. This for some time to come promises to be a charmed circle-in kind, not unlike the "Letters to John Doe" which I used to read each week in John O’ London’s Weekly; easy, informal, informative and altogether delightful. Beyond this, for there will come a time when the speaker has explored every town and crossed every burn, lie the Tales of the Border. In Weston’s 12 or so volumes they look forbidding, but in the hand of a bonnie teller of tales they could no doubt yield us some pleasant half-hours rounded out with songs and ballads, . CONTINUOUS session like
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 10
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