Heart and Mind
()CCASIONALLY the radio presents us with someone who can talk about our country with a response to the natural scene which lifts the sessions to the threshhold of poetry. I can remember a series of brief but arresting talks on South Island wayside stations, and now in 4YA’s Country Calendar Bert Dreaver has been dealing with Central Otago. In the two sessions I was fortunate enough to. hear, Cromwell and the Maniototo were the subjects. A natural tendency in those who love the countryside is to make of it a retreat from the pettiness of small town intrigue. But this very movement is coupled with an unsatisfying vagueness. The contrast, most noticeable in radio programmes, is for the man of affairs to burble over innumerable details seen and felt without passion or life, without the shaping of that individual imagination which gives interest to the memories and facts, Bert Dreaver (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) speaks with a heart and mind turned equally towards man and his natural setting, towards Naseby’s sleepy hollow and the wind in the blue tussock. A slower delivery, however, would make each "shot" of the life and times of Central Otago a good deal more incisive.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 783, 23 July 1954, Page 10
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207Heart and Mind New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 783, 23 July 1954, Page 10
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