Well-matched Opponents
HE imaginary conversation or ideal argument is one of the most telling forms of radio-it’s amazing how the mere presentation of an historical character as a living person has a most enlivening effect on his philosophy, how the power of an abstract idea to lodge in the listener’s mind is increased by having the idea presented with personal conviction. The "Dialogue on Toleration," between John Locke and his pupil, Lord Shaftesbury, was shrewdly done, its matter stimulating, and its presentation (by Maurice Cranston) given something of the excitement of a tennis match, with our ears swivelling from one speaker to the next. They were a well-matched pair. Young Shaftesbury had the dash and resilience of youth, and was quick to take advantage of a weakness in his op. ponent’s defence. But Locke was -too experienced to be rattled by his volley-ing-he stayed firmly on the back line, (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) and, while sometimes conceding a point, kept lobbing the ball back with care and deliberation. There was the equivalent of that sportsmanlike handshake in their mutual confession, at programme’s end, that neither was a tolerant man.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 787, 20 August 1954, Page 10
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193Well-matched Opponents New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 787, 20 August 1954, Page 10
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