"UNDER MILK WOOD"
Sir,-I was writing-issue February 4 ---to protest at the expurgating of the Dylan Thomas play, not to defend it. Unfortunately, a printer’s error rather confused this. I wrote: "... would it not have been better to have considered the play as a whole, rather than to have expurgated it. . .’ The "rather than" was omitted from the letter, and the sense consequently altered. 1 confess that the information contained in your reply puzzles me further. If The Listener and the NZBS knew the play was edited why did neither mention it? And just what is the Transcription Service of the BBC? As it is apparently there to transcribe BBC programmes for the use of overseas broadcasting systems, why is it thought necessary thus to edit its transcriptions?
MAURICE
DUGGAN
(Auckland).
(A typist’s error, although regrettable, could not conceal opinions repeated by Mr. n with increasing emphasis. The T tion Service sends programmes in the form of recordings to broadcasting systems overseas. In these circumstances "editing" is simply a question of meeting the ayerage playing time requirements of stations in many different parts of the world.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 812, 18 February 1955, Page 5
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186"UNDER MILK WOOD" New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 812, 18 February 1955, Page 5
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