The Search for Troy
ISLED by the time allowed in The Listener for Denys Pages’s talk, Troy, Myth or Legend? (BBC), I settled down for a pleasant half-hour of polite debunking or rehabilitation, and was just getting warmed up when, after 14 minutes, the talk ended. Still, considering its brevity, this discussion was, as my Air Force friends would say, full value. Mr. Page made the obsessive search of Heinrich Schliemann for Troy quite as exciting as any detective story, and the detail, all new to me, of the: confirmation of old legends as Troy after Troy-to the tune of nine-were uncovered, was fascinating. We can never afford to look BBC gift-horses in the mouth, but I still feel that this could, and should, have been a longer
talk, since it left so many questions up -in the air. However, the unscheduled surprise of Solomon playing Beethoven on relay to 1YC later in the week cancelled out any slight disappointment that the over-generous allocation for Troy might have caused. After all, people like myself who really want to hear long talks are queer, I suppose.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 10
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187The Search for Troy New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 10
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