SHAW BANNED
EPILOGUE TO PLAY
CHRISTCHDRGH BROADCAST
(By.Telegraph—Press Association.) : CHRISTCHURCH; This Day. Bernard Shaw has been banned in Christehureh. ■• ■ Although ; his play, "Androcles and the Lion," was broadcast from station 3ZM last night, the reading of the epilogue to'the play was banned by the district radio inspector, who vetoed ■it as being controversial and contravening - regulation 138. "Shaw' has been banned in Christchurch," Dr. Birkinshaw, who took part in the '.broadcast,: said subsequently, "New Zealand is probably the- only country :iri the Empire where ho is not allowed- tb.Q;;fiill:'.iise- of-;the air." Professor Pocock, another member of the.cast in tiis broadcast play, commented today: "Possibly an inspector was put up to it by Mr. Shaw, who I understand.has not.outgrown that sort of thing. I have no doubt everybody is delighted, but it is all a little cheap and silly." , " .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 72, 26 March 1934, Page 10
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138SHAW BANNED Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 72, 26 March 1934, Page 10
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