Beautiful Thoughts
ISTORY is so full of a number of things that it’s hard to credit the mess people can make of telling stories from it for the ZB public. You Are There is over, but we still have Their Finest Hour, These half-hour biographies of famous Englishmen are written in so maudlin a fashion that I have squirmed through every episode I have heard. A few weeks ago Rupert Brooke showed his mother one of his first poems. "O, Rupert," said she, "I never knew you had such _ beautiful thoughts!" (Why does my mother never say such things to me? I have beautiful thoughts, too.) The YAs recently broadcast The Plymouth Adventure, a straightforward but intelligent BBC play of the voyage of the first Mayflower, timed to coincide with the arrival of the second, though that arrival had gone a bit sour by then. This kind of thing would admirably suit ZB requirements, I'd have thought. But anything so simple is apparently beyond the capacity of the’ Australian. commercial studios from which most ZB stuff comes.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 934, 5 July 1957, Page 8
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179Beautiful Thoughts New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 934, 5 July 1957, Page 8
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