tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post6323944268519713438..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: John Masefield, Victor Hely-Hutchinson and Forgetteries by Enid RichemontKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-21035781252585727732017-12-28T10:49:10.610+00:002017-12-28T10:49:10.610+00:00Thanks for this post and for the glimpse into your...Thanks for this post and for the glimpse into your (Box of?) Forgetteries, Enid. Hope your ankle is stronger soon.<br /><br />Dennis, I'd heard about the Wilton Music Hall production and had daydreams about going, but London's usually an overnight trip from here. Meanwhile, all good wishes for your forthcoming op.<br /><br />(No snow here in this part of Yorkshire, other than a flurry a week ago.)Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-82696352925366990252017-12-28T02:52:53.355+00:002017-12-28T02:52:53.355+00:00I agree. The Box of Delights is wonderful, one of ...I agree. The Box of Delights is wonderful, one of the greatest fantasies ever written - and in some ways the real precursor of Harry Potter. Like you, I presume, I first met it memorably on the radio on Children's Hour. Yes, Enid, 'aeons ago' is only too true! I enjoyed the 80's TV version too. But I didn't actually read the book until I was an adult who had been provided with a full lit-crit armoury - and I found it marvellously satisfying. My only criticism was that at the end, we found it was all a dream, which I've always thought of as a silly cop-out and certainly and unexpected failure of nerve on Masefield's part. A ploy to which children's authors of the past were often fatally attached.<br /><br />Hely-Hutchinson't Carol Symphony is marvellous - and still takes me back to teatimes by the fire with the wireless on listening to that marvellou scene where Kay Harker meets Herne the Hunter asnd watches him turn into a stag as he gallops away.<br /><br />By the way, they is a stage production on now at Wilton's Music Hall in Whitchapel, running until some time in January, which I saw brilliantly reviewed. I can't go because of my hospital date on Jan 4th, so I must hope that it goes on tour. It could be a great experience. If ever BoD is filmed, there could be some GREAT CGI.Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781139870037634374noreply@blogger.com