Listening to History
NYTHING could happen when a covey of commentators complete with broadcasting equipment are let loose in situations which have been made famous by historians down the centuries and all round the world. What does happen in the series You Are There ean be heard currently from ZBs on Monday evenings. The occasions on which these broadcasters are inserted into history vary from the signing of Magna Carta to the landing at Gallipoli and from the fall of Troy to Commander Robert Peary’s dash to the North Pole in 1909, Listeners hear what the commentators see at a witch trial in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, when a 71-year-old woman, Rebecca Nourse, was accused of causing young girls to become possessed by supernatural forces, and other trials described include those of Marie Antoinette, Anne Hutchinson, John Peter Zenger, Aaron Burr and William Penn. Situations are enlivened when the commentators cease operations because of the approach of battle, but a colleague is always conveniently placed to take over.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 893, 14 September 1956, Page 17
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168Listening to History New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 893, 14 September 1956, Page 17
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