At Great Ormond Street
[ DOCUMENTARY, when its facts are reinforced by its appeal to the heart, is one of the most exciting forms, of tadio. Such was the BBC’s Children in Hospital, the story of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, It was at times unbearably moving, but the emotional stress was lightened towards the end of the programme by vistas of the amazing progress in medicine, and also by excerpts from such incidental aspects of hosvital life as spelling quizzes and percussion’ bands, Nor was the mistake made of glorifying the institution per se -there were references to letting the children home as soon as possible, and to the importance of parents’ daily | visiting. The only thing I found unconvincing was Emlyn Williams’s Charles Dickens, but then Dickens was an unconvincing character even to his contemporaries. And on the one occasion when I thought I might pick a genuine hole (when a six-months-old baby cried like something much younger) the mother forestalled me by saying, "That's not his usual cry, Doctor, but then he
really isn’t himself,"
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 780, 2 July 1954, Page 11
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181At Great Ormond Street New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 780, 2 July 1954, Page 11
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