Ruthless Rhymes
OME rather haphazard listening last Sunday netted me a fair entertainment catch. Conquest of the Air (BBC) was a sound, satisfying programme undisfigured by excessive romanticism. Dominion Day, an anniversary programme by Celia and Cecil Manson,
revealed a sense of historical piety in the authors without communicating it to their listeners. Then to 2ZB for Lesley Gordon’s Sorrowful and Not So Sorrowful Tales. From the parental point of view these are delightful, being thoroughly cautionary and callous. Of Amanda Montmorency Maggs, a litterdropper finally speared by the refuse collector, the author remarks "perhaps it was a pity, but London is a crowded city." These tales deserve, quite as much as Hilaire Belloc, to become family folklore.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 11
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118Ruthless Rhymes New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 11
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