MAN OF MANY VOICES
HAD missed D. G. Bridson’s Aaron’s Field (BBC) on previous occasions, and so was grateful for the 1YA re-broadcast on Easter Sunday. For me, Mr. Bridson is one of the most accomplished script-writers England possesses. His °45 feature is surely one of the real "classics" of radio, and this more recent versified modern morality has exceptionally speakable verse and solid imaginative substance. But it will go down in radio history less for its content than for the astonishing performance of Wilfred Pickles in 14 different roles. I can usually detect, if I listen hard enough, the characteristic personal inflection through the vocal disguises of even so brilliant a mimic as Danny Kaye. Yet never once during the variety of accents in Aaron’s Field could I catch hold of any inflections which might be said to be unmistakably those of "Have-a-Go" Pickles. The only drawback to this tour de force was that I found myself listening to the voice rather than the words at times. I hope the play will be broadcast often again. It is rarely that radio offers so remarkable a piece of playing in so rewarding a play.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 10
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194MAN OF MANY VOICES New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 10
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