Vicarious Holidays ?
The 'Third Programme relays of Die ZauberflOte and Fidelio from the Salzburg Fcstspielhaus are not only musically, but reminiscently, entrancing ; for they revive in the memory the little Baroque town and the swiftly-flowing Salzach and the surrounding emerald lakes. A stay-at-home this year, I wonder whether others, like myself, might not like the B.B.C. to take us vicariously on holiday abroad, in a series of programmes—down the Loire, say, or to the Tivoli gardens in Copenhagen, or to the hills above Florence. We had, last week, it is true, such good stuff as Return to the Midi, with Messrs. Moray McLaren and Lennox Milne revisiting Provence, and I'm not complaining that the B.B.C. neglects in general the other side of the Channel and the North Sea ; but I should like a specific holiday series to enable us to eat rillettes in Angers once more, or drive across the Simplon again, or sail a Norwegian fiord—at second hand, it's true, but happily, in recollection or anticipation.
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