Promise Fulfilled
‘Two spanking titles lured me to enrol for two new series of talks from 2YC, Tuesday's Come Home to Roost, in which certain authors are confronted by their characters, and Tuesday night’s Little Lord Frankenstein, in which the listener is asked to take a good look at some nasty little -monsters arising from the Loch Ness of material civilisation. Neither talk let down the bright promise of its title. I don’t know quite how Mr. D. K. Fieldhouse managed to keep us afloat in the clear, cold water of dialectics, but whenever we looked like sinking he would throw us a life-
saving reference to Henry Ford or 1984, and we would keep our heads above water. Home to Roost was less demanding: Emily Bronte meets a diminished Heathcliffe (amateurish reading did not help the character), and apart from a nicely characteristic sneer at Lockwood earlier on, there was scarcely more than a routine cheep out of him. Had Emily met Heathcliffe in Hollywood passions would have been inflamed, tempers rekindled, but from the ‘Christchurch studios of the NZBS it was more a gentle blowing on literary
embers,
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 812, 18 February 1955, Page 10
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192Promise Fulfilled New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 812, 18 February 1955, Page 10
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