Good morning kiddies! Our special treat for you today are two fairy tales–in Pidgin English-Liklik Retpela Hat (Little Red Riding Hood ) and Tripela Liklik Pik ( Three Little Pigs ). They are flexidiscs translated into Pidgin , adapted to a Melanesian setting by the Reverend Paul Freyberg of the Lutheran mission at Madang , and produced in the Port Moresby ABC studios, about the 1960s.
They are read by the officer in charge of Highlands police in the Royal Papuan New Guinea Constabulary, Superintendent Mike Thomas, in the ABC’s Daily Learning Pidgin Series. Another flexidisc was made - At Jack nau Rope Bean ( Jack and the Bean Stalk ).There is a suggestion that a similar one was made telling of the dangers of sniffing / drinking petrol.
Little Darwin discovered these two discs with their distinctive jackets, the artwork by June Lodge , in a Townsville op shop, about 10 years ago. Reverend Freyberg was the chief translator of Nupela Testamen , the New Testament in Pidgin, and had spoken about Japanese atrocities in New Guinea during WW11. A desirable find would be Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Pidgin which is said to have been made decades ago.
Little Darwin discovered these two discs with their distinctive jackets, the artwork by June Lodge , in a Townsville op shop, about 10 years ago. Reverend Freyberg was the chief translator of Nupela Testamen , the New Testament in Pidgin, and had spoken about Japanese atrocities in New Guinea during WW11. A desirable find would be Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Pidgin which is said to have been made decades ago.
