Sir-I would be interested to know how it came about that one and a half hours of unadulterated rubbish in the form of the musical play The Vanishing Island occupied a prominent place in all YA. stations last Sunday night. The ‘play itself was something less than a third-rate musical comedy. The plot was absurd, even for a musical comedy, the lyrics at times pure doggerele and the music very ordinary. In fact, as a piece of entertainment, it had no merit at all. Thus, it would hardly have been broadcast as entertainment, Reluctantly, then, I must conclude that it was broadcast as a piece of propaganda. Is the M.R.A. to be the only favoured "ideology"? Or was the play broadcast because it had been performed before
U Nu and the heads of Governments of 25 othér nations whose populations total more than 1,000,000,000? The Oxford Group movement, or M.R.A. as it is now called, offers a sort of panacea for the ills of the modern world and therein lies the danger to a gullible public, To broadcast its propaganda gives it an ait of official approval and therefore it is to be hoped that there will ‘be no repetition of this third-rate
musical.
CANTABRIGIENSIS
(Christchurch)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 5
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