LAURIE LEE (above), who will still be remembered by many listeners for his verse chronicle The Voyage of Magellan, is the author of a new programme, Black Saturday, Red Sunday, to be heard from 1YC next week. Black Saturday, Red Sunday, is a portrait of Southern Spain, or to be more exact, the province of Andalusia, and Laurie Lee should know Spain fairly well. In his younger days he spent a year there, playing the violin for a living. During the Easter season of 1956 he made numerous recordings of traditional celebrations, and with a background of guitars, castanets, trumpets and local singers, he tells of the contrasts and paradoxes of Spain today. Besides the dancing, the bullfights and the swagger of the fiesta, there is the sight of men sitting in the cafés; men with loose and useless arms, tapping their feet, staring at the walls and waiting. It is not boredom that claims them, says Mr Lee. They are waiting for their resurrection... Felix Felton plays the part of the Traveller, and production is by Louis MacNeice. Black Saturday, Red Sunday, will be heard, at 10.0 p.m., from 1YC on September 24.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 31
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194LAURIE LEE (above), who will still be remembered by many listeners for his verse chronicle The Voyage of Magellan, is the author of a new programme, Black Saturday, Red Sunday, to be heard from 1YC next week. Black Saturday, Red Sunday, is a portrait of Southern Spain, or to be more exact, the province of Andalusia, and Laurie Lee should know Spain fairly well. In his younger days he spent a year there, playing the violin for a living. During the Easter season of 1956 he made numerous recordings of traditional celebrations, and with a background of guitars, castanets, trumpets and local singers, he tells of the contrasts and paradoxes of Spain today. Besides the dancing, the bullfights and the swagger of the fiesta, there is the sight of men sitting in the cafés; men with loose and useless arms, tapping their feet, staring at the walls and waiting. It is not boredom that claims them, says Mr Lee. They are waiting for their resurrection... Felix Felton plays the part of the Traveller, and production is by Louis MacNeice. Black Saturday, Red Sunday, will be heard, at 10.0 p.m., from 1YC on September 24. New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 31
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