WRITER IN REVOLT
; was George Borrow, friend of the | gypsies and champion of the dispossessed, a rebel against his time, or was he-as_ hostile contemporaries claimed-frustrated, a cold egotist, a liar and a boaster and a _ rancorous hater? In a BBC programme about Borrow now going the rounds of National stations an attempt is made to reveal the man as he appeared to those who knew him and as he saw himself. Borrow was a great traveller. Apart from having a good look at England, he visited France, Germany, Russia, Spain and the East, studying the languages of the countries he visited. One of his best-known books is The Bible in Spain, which he wrote after six years of hardship in Spain as a travelling agent for the British and Foreign Bible Society. Michael Wharton, who wrote the BBC programme, has drawn on this work for some of his material. The second half of the feature is based on Lavengro, which, like its sequel The Romany Rye, is largely autobiographical. George Borrow will be heard from 2YC at 7.34 p.m. this Saturday (May 22), and from 4YZ in Weekend Magazine at 145 p.m. this Sunday (May 23).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 15
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197WRITER IN REVOLT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 15
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