From Unesco
NORMALLY I avoid United Nations programmes; but I listened to a commemoration of Unesco’s first ten years, broadcast on October 14, and found it good. Not outstanding, but good, There were no spacemen, no civilisations on trial. ("Call the first witness (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) for the prosecution! Name? The Child of the Future!) Sound effects there were, but they were documentary and relevant, Of course, there was a fine evangelical fervour, an absolute conviction that a child is better to know his ABC than a chant for exorcising devils. But there was a record of valuable work, like projects to make the desert fruitful with the help of dew and artesian water, Of the cultural part, we heard a voice saying (as others have lately said): "How can you tie the muse to an intergovernmental agency?" So we were told of a Cuban poet who was given a Unesco fellowship and was asked, "What is your dream?" There followed a story of the dream and its fulfilment, but in
such a rich accent that it left me no wiser, which was appropriate enough. Dreams are private property. The programme was written by Ritchie Culder. Does it make me a candidate for fun-’ damental re-education if I assume it was improved by not being written by an
American?
R.D.
Mc.E.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 900, 2 November 1956, Page 18
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226From Unesco New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 900, 2 November 1956, Page 18
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