Desert Gold
TEW f@iture programmes have me sitting on the édge of my chair-the BBC Quest in the Desért was one of
them. This is the story of the discovery, rediscovery and final loss of Lasseter’s Reef, in Western Australia’s Gibson Desert. The author, Ralph Peterson, was possibly lucky in his subject, which is a perfect embodiment of the Médas legend, a cautionary tale we are never tired of hearing of the gold that you can’t eat or drink and which in the end you give your life for. The programme spans 30 years of searching, and 1 thought it a touch of genius to keep the date before us by such devices as broadcasting a report of the expedition in a news broadcast that also mentioned Kingsford Smith’s Tasman attempt. The programme as a whole generated a remarkable nervous tension, and even such. melodramatic-sounding effects as desert Wind, howling dingoes and hostile drums ‘were nét just local colour but more like
the rustliings of Nemesis.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 770, 23 April 1954, Page 10
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168Desert Gold New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 770, 23 April 1954, Page 10
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