BROADCASTING

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21418, 9 March 1935, Page 9

BROADCASTING

TO THJS EDITO* OT THE FRXSS. Sir—Programme organisers have no easy task to meet many diverse tastes. Allowing for that the results they secure leave much to be desired. Few subjects are receiving so much attention. to-day as the history of our own country. Historians, lecturers, and journalists increasingly call attention to our early days. In this way they are preparing for the centenary celebrations of 1940. Yet our radio stations seem oblivious of it all Is it too much to suggest that the publio demand and taste might be gratified? It is surely possible to find capable men who can tell a good story and put something of their own personality over the air to make the story live. There is no need for speakers (or announcers) wko are as soulless as a robot fitted with an affected voicebox.—Yours, etc., T.M.F. Duntroon, March 7, 1935. TO TUi EDITOB 07 THE TRESS. Sir, —When the radio adaptation, "The Invisible Wound," was broadcast, I was astonished to learn that the two

i. Wdo eiocuiii&Aicu. i/U itai iJ. iwut wiw trw principal parts were spoken by ore man, Professor J. Shelley; and may I say that I consider his performance to have been remarkably good. So realistic did he make the anguish of the young murderer that I felt it myself. I have not read the original story; therefore I cannot criticise the adaptation; but I thought the anti-climax about the doctor's going to a rendezvous was unnecessary and an absurd attempt to relieve the dramatic tension. The play would have been better had it ended with the dramatic disclosure and the fitting in by the doctor of the missing factor to the mystery. But whether this is criticism of the story or of the adaptation perhaps someone else will tell us.

To Professor Shelley's request for criticism, I would add that I thought the method of presenting what had happened before the beginning of the play by plunging suddenly into another "scene" and then leaping back to the original narrative, later making another such plunge, was rather confusing. It would, I think, have been better to have begun the story at the beginning rather than in the middle. However, I was kept interested throughout the play, and am hoping to hear Professor Shelley again soon. —Yours, etc., STATIC. March 8, 1935.