Bookshop was a long-running book-review programme on the YC radio stations (the most highbrow stations) during the 1950s. In this excerpt from a 1958 programme, poet Denis Glover (at left in the photo, reading a poem to Bill Oliver, James K. Baxter, Louis Johnson, Bill Hart-Smith, Tony Vogt and Keith Sinclair in 1956) satirically reviews a work by Irish author Claud Cockburn.
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Sound file from Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision – Radio New Zealand collection. Any re-use of this audio is a breach of copyright. To request a copy of the recording, contact Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision (Bookshop. 1958-04-29/Reference number 39459)
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