Scots Wha Hae
[OR genuine and unaffected folksiness, I know no better current programme than Harry Taylor’s Friday
evening Scottish Session ftom 1YA. It would be so easy to fall into the National Club Evening tone and mood on such a programme, yet Mr Taylor’s well-balanced choice of recordings, amiable, yet not over-sentimental commentary, and a certain pleasing diffidence keep his session this side of the nostalgic emigrant’s myth. I am prepared to be convinced that Sassenachs might find the bagpipes disturbing on the radio (some benighted souls, I am told, find them disturbing anywhere!) and doubtless remembering such listeners, Mr Taylor does not over-work the chanters. But his blend of bagpipes, traditional songs, the Glasgow Orpheus Choir and the odd Harry Lauder number, and his little pieces of historical, . geographical and biographical information add up to a pretty -soothing programme all round. I wonder whether Mr Taylor might not sometimes give us some Scottish verse as well, It seems to me that it would suit both the character of his session and his own extremely pleasing voice as well. After all, those English poets have a pretty fair run on other programmes,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 24
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