The Good Book
(CCASIONALLY a radio session emerges to which my first reaction is "What a fine idea! Why hasn’t somebody thought of this before?" So with the daily Bible reading from the YA stations, which I find wholly admirable. The three or so minutes each takes is about the length of a rock ’n’ roll record; even the most stubbornly secularminded could hardly. begrudge such a space for a daily recognition of the Creator. The scheme of using different translations is excellent, for, while the more familiar versions have the appeal of traditional sonorities, one is often startled into a new awareness of meaning by the directness of Knox; Moffatt and Phillips. The only slight quarrel I have is with some of the readers who seem to me to strive for a lush poeticisation of certain passages, which rings falsely in my ear. At first thought, the time, 5.45 p.m., may not appear the most appropriate, but’ as the reading immediately follows the children’s session, it may catch a family audience before the knob is turned to net some music. Perhaps, however, we may look forward to the day when the session is repeated, after the 9.0 p.m. news, for instance, for a still wider audience.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 26
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207The Good Book New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 26
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