_"T WROTE it about 20 years ago, and it was published in London and | has become pretty well known since | then," Alan Mulgan said when we asked him for a word about his narrative poem Golden Wedding, which ‘some North | Island listeners have recently heard read
by the English actress | Barbara’ Jefford.. Mr. | Mulgan described the | poem as a reminiscence ef his childhood in the | country; the scene is | Katikati, in the Bay of Plenty, where he was | born. The landscape and | surroundings, he said, were "more or less taken | from life"? and "Hill-, side," ‘the name of the. house in the poem, was the name of his grand-_ father’s house; but the | characters are imaginary. Mr. Mulgan said that | both his grandfathers were early settlers in| Katikati, where they arrived in the 1870s. |
Some listeners may have | heard the poem before, when it was fread some |
years ago by Diana Craig, and it has been much quoted. The present recording was made by Barbara Jefford when : she was in New Zealand not long ago. | Golden Wedding, which was heard this_ week (April 16) from 2YC, will be broadcast next from 3YC on April 28.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 872, 20 April 1956, Page 19
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