Unrepentant Seekers
"TT HERE’S something thah if you cah to dig for it,’ said Mr. Mybug to Flora Poste, and this was the very powerful impression left by the NZBS programme Pacific Gold, the story of the | Cocos Islands treasure. Equally powerful, of course, was. the impression that | dead men neithef tell tales nor leave | maps that are 100 per cent reliable, | and that after Captain Shrapnel’s blast--ing our chances of doing any selective | digging are slight. Pacific Gold was a fast-moving, exciting and ~straight--forward story (the listener was left to_ form his own conclusions about the effect on the human personality of "gold beyond the wildest dreams of avarice" without having stories .of curses put across him). Its characters were vigorous and clear-cut, the scallywags deep-dyed, with no death-bed repentance about anything but the fact that they would never see their treasure again. The programme got under way to a lively rendition of Alex Lindsay’s specially composed chanty "Who'll Take a Chance for the Spanish Main?" — repeated, suitably subdued, when we_ hove-to. at. pro-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 788, 27 August 1954, Page 11
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180Unrepentant Seekers New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 788, 27 August 1954, Page 11
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