A Dramatic Monologue
Being the audible meditation of a traveller by road from London to the Land's End
Written, Designed, and Spoken by FILSON YOUNG
THIS 'meditation ' is the sort of thing that would be impossible to produce except by broadcasting. It is not merely a slice of Baedeker or a travel-sketch, like the 'Flying Scotman's ' On Either Side; it is an experiment in a new kind of talk-play, using all the resources of unloealized sound-effects. We are given a complete description of a motor run from London to Land's
End ; we are, as it were, taken in the car and privileged to hear the spoken thoughts of the driver, who has made the journey hundreds of times, and knows every inch of the road. We see him hesitating between two roads, and listen with him to the birds singing and the organ at Exeter Cathedral. We end up in a village pub in Cornwall. Mr. Filson Young is strongly linked with the West; it was he who introduced to the microphone Father Walke's The Western Land and the Cornish Nativity Play, now a regular yearly feature of the programmes. In The Road to the West, listeners will be interested to pass through St. Hilary with Mr. Young and hear him converse with Father Walke.