This episode of John Nesbitt's THE PASSING PARADE storts, as many do, with a conundrum. What is causing night vision in a trucker, nervousness in a typist, and rickets in a boy? Do they have anything in common? And what about beri-beri in Dutch Indonesia in the 19th Century? We are introduced -- namelessly at first -- to Doctor Christiaan Eijkman and his thwarted experiments with chickens that won him a share of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
THE PASSING PARADE often interested itself in trifles of great importance; while Nesbitt told us the story -- for the long-running series had originated and continued as a radio feature -- performers acted out the events wordlessly.
THE PASSING PARADE often interested itself in trifles of great importance; while Nesbitt told us the story -- for the long-running series had originated and continued as a radio feature -- performers acted out the events wordlessly.
