Trew tale of the sea

Press, 29 December 1980, Page 14

Trew tale of the sea

“Sea Fever” is a novel by the South African-born writer and sailor, Antony Trew. This is an account of a lone yachtsman who discovers he has a female stowaway on board during a race. The sailor, aptly named Savage, is rather brutal towards the young woman who has unintentionally disqualified him in a vitally important contest. Antony Trew talks about the story on 8.8. C. “World of Books,” Concert programme, . S.lO pan. tomorrow.

“Past Masters” is a series from the Oxford University Press that attempts to give a brief account of- the contribution to human thinking of many great minds. Homer, Jesus, Galileo and Marx have already appeared; Bach, Jefferson and Shakespeare are still to come. One of the publisher’s editors tells of the idea behind the books and describes difficulties with which the “Past Masters” were selected.

Greta Garbo is still one of the great figures of cinema, nearly 40 years after her last film appeared. A British film critic, Alexander Walker, has written a lavishly-illus-trated book about Garbo. He has used some sources not previously available, including the archives of MGM film studios. He talks about Garbo’s power on and off screen and how she would refuse a star role with the words, “I could never be a complicated woman.” Kipling poems The life of the common soldier in Queen Victoria’s Army is reflected in the poems of Rudyard Kipling.

A selection of the Kipling poems is read and sung in a 8.8. C. programme byactors from the British National Theatre Company. National programme. 7.30 p.m. tomorrow.

Though Kipling himself suffered poor health and did not serve in the army, many of his best-known stories and poems depict “life in the ranks.” They show the common soldier’s progress from garrison duty in India, through the Afghan and Sudanese wars, the Zulu and Boer Wars in South Africa, and then to the •914-18 war in which Kipling’s only son was killed. 801 l play The German writer, Heinrich 8011, provides this week’s 8.8. C, Tuesday afternoon radio play. In “A Day Like Any Other” the clerk, Schneider, has a wife; they still live together, but he has little interest in her any more. Then one day—a day like any other—he has to'leave his office on an errand. He walks along the street and sees in a shop window the reflection of a woman, no longer young, but intensely attractive to him. National programme, 3.07 p.m. tomorrow. Children’s music In a futher programme in the Concert programme’s morning “Music for Children” series, the selection is largely from British composers. There is Benjamin Britten’s Songs from Friday Afternoon and Percy Grainger’s Children’s March and Over the Hills and Far Away. The other piece is Faure’s