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tion that good scripts demand good readers, it was that provided by the first and second of R. T. Robertson’s intriguing series Come Home to Roost. The dialogue between Emily Bronte and Heathcliffe was almost ruined for me by the unconvincing and stilted reading of Heathcliffe’s, lines, which made the session sound like a rather drab tutorial given by a bored professor to a bothersome female student. But in the following week’s contribution, Philip Smithells and John V. Trevor did full justice to E. M. Forster and Dr. Aziz, the latter in particular being very much as I have always imagined him. These original and intelligent programmes do indicate, perhaps, one of the basic differences between New Zealand’s YC programmes and the BBC "Third." A "Third Programme" can afford to take for granted that its listeners know the work discussed. Come Home to Roost can’t, with tive result that a good deal of the ForsterAziz conversation recapitulated incidents in the novel; leaving so much less time for aspects of Forster’s vision and concept of India, which were only tantalisingly glanced at. Still, this sort of thing is a step on the way. Perhaps, some day, the YCs will take a giant step. ta ever there was a demonstra-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 10
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211AZIZ AS IS New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 10
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