"Winnie the Pooh"
New Production
|T seems that listeners who are young in heart can never have too much ‘of Winnie-the-Pooh. It is some years now since A. A. Milne’s fantasy was broadcast by the NZBS in a BBC adaptation, but last year the BBC made a new production, transcriptions of which have arrived in this country. It will be broadcast in Children’s Hour programmes from the YA and YZ stations, starting from 2YA at 5.15 p.m. this Thursday, June 24, and from 4YA at 5.15 p.m. on Monday, June 28. There are eight episodes of the Pooh Saga as given on the air: "Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees," "Pooh Goes Visiting," "Piglet and Eeyore," "Piglet Meets a Heffalump,’ "Eeyore Has a Birthday," "Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest and Piglet Has a Bath," "The Expotition to the North Pole," and "Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water." Three foundation members of the cast are heard in this revivalNorman Shelley (he declares that Pooh is his favourite role), Wilfred Babbage as Piglet, and Geoffrey Wincott as Eeyore, the dismal donkey. The idea of adapting Winnie-the-Pooh for radio came to David Davis during the war, and he found that the book was so perfectly suited to radio that he had only to turn written dialogue into spoken (continued on next page)
dialogue and treat the bits in between as nafration. He is his own narrator and accompanist, and H. Fraser-Simpson’s charming settings are used for the songs and incidental music.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 18
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249"Winnie the Pooh" New Production New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 18
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