A Dramatic Monologue
Being the audible meditation of a Traveller by Road from London to Land's End
A note on this 'dramatic monologue' - the form is not easy to convey less clumsily - will be found in yesterday's National programme (p. 600). It will be spoken by the author himself, Mr. Filson Young, as the Traveller. Mr. Young has all the proverbially Irish versatility and love of adventure: he has been war correspondent, journalist, and traveller since the Boer War. His first broadcast, more than six years ago, was on the Scottish Border Country, and he has since given several talks on the English countryside. He has broadcast besides on many other topics, ranging from 'On Keeping Diaries' to the Battle of the Dogger Bank, from Idle Thoughts to 'Going Back to Work after a Holiday.' His books show a similar diversity of subject; he has edited the Bywaters-Thompson Trial and Herrick's Poems, written on Music and War, Ireland and South Africa, and is author of several novels, one of which, 'The Sands of Pleasure,' was the outstanding sensation of its year of publication. He is now on the staff of the B.B.C. as Adviser on Programmes.