Sex and the Radio
Listener - June 8, 2002
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"Elizabeth Bennett is the most shag-able of Jane Austen's heroines."
This evocative statement was blurted by media chic poet Kate Camp, currently writer-in-residence at Waikato University, on Kim Hill's Saturday morning show on National Radio. She was reviewing Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, which to her was "like eating a box of chocolates . . . just pure unadulterated pleasure."
Okay, I've taken Camp's language a little out of context. The opening sentence was at the end of bigger picture, but radio is like that, you catch sound bites and Camp's very good at leaving her mark. She actually started illustrating her point by quoting from Martin Amis's essay on the book which read: "Mr Darcy is every woman's fantasy man and Elizabeth Bennett is every man's fantasy woman."
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Death and the Radio
Listener - July 6, 2002
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"Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your young men shall see visions; your old men will dream dreams."
This prophetic verse greeted me when I tuned into the Rhema Network. "Joel, Acts 1:17," the announcer informs. It had me running for my Bible. What about those who didn't make the dream team? "And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy."
We're talking end times, when "the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood . . ."
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