All That Glisters
NE is accustomed to thinking of the gold fever as a 19th Century malady and that the cycle of the fever was completed in the 20th Century by re-in-terring the gold in vaults. It came, therefore, as something of a surprise to hear the BBC Documentary Quest in the Desert, and to learn from it that a saga which began in 1893 with the discovery of a reef in Central Australia, was finally consummated in 1931 by the death of
the original prospector, Harry Lassiter. It was news to me, too. that marauding aboriginal tribes could be considered a_ major hazard in 1931; indeed, one member of the expedition was speared to his death. It was a good documentary, full of the sound and feel of the Central | Australian landscape, with its appalling | privations and rigours, and I found the Australian voices vigorous and authen--tic. I say authentic, because the programme was produced and recorded in the London Studios of the BBC. There must have been quite a round-up of dinkum characters.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 818, 1 April 1955, Page 11
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175All That Glisters New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 818, 1 April 1955, Page 11
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