On Board the Fram
T first, listening to The Slowest Journey in the World (the story of Nansen and his ship Fram) I thought the programme might be something of an endurance test. It seemed to make rather mechanical use of the two-voice technique, with one narrator arbitrarily replacing another, which makes you fee! the subject-matter is bound to be dull if the producer is going to such pains to brighten up the presentation. However, once all were aboard the Fram
the programme warmed up surprisingly, thanks mostly to the personality of Nansen, who was revealed as a man of warmth as well as greatness. Even the diary entries, which occasionally could have sounded stilted, emerged as the natural expression of a very human person. I was so caught up in the programme that at the climax, when the explorer Jackson looms out of nothingness to rescue Nansen and Johansen after their gruelling return from the 86th Parallel, I felt as though a friend had been rescued rather than merely one of history’s great men.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 12
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175On Board the Fram New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 12
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