Brick-Red Face, Bowler Hat
"()UR house stood on a sandy ridge overlooking the river valley. High up in the back gable, at the end of the corridor, there was the ‘Return Room.’ It led nowhere but back again. A dead-end room, kept for visitors. But from the window I could see across the city. . . Belfast with the brick-red face and the: bowler hat of smoke. City of ships and shawlies, doles and doyleys. . ." This is thé setting for The Return Room, a BBC programme to be heard from 1YC at 10.0 p.m. on Thursday, May 30, in which the poet W. R. Rodgers recalls the people and setting of his youth in Belfast a generation or more ago. In this vigorous narrative, which introduces some exceptional people encountered by the poet in his boyhood days, the focus of place and people is sharpened by flashes of the old rhymes and street ballads of the period and by the vivid idiom and humour of local speech. Mr Rodgers himself describes it as "a word’s-eye view of Belfast, partly autobiographical, largely imaginary, and wholly true."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 928, 24 May 1957, Page 17
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183Brick-Red Face, Bowler Hat New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 928, 24 May 1957, Page 17
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