HITLER'S "SECRET WEAPON"?

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 119, 3 October 1941, Page 8

HITLER'S "SECRET WEAPON"?

"Air Spy" Has A Guess

N intriguing guess as to the nature of Hitler’s much vaunted " secret weapon" is made in the Australian radio thriller Air Spy, which starts from 2ZB this Saturday, September 27. The story of a desperate adventure which befalls two Australian flyers in the Royal Air Force, Air Spy suggests. that it

might be a ray device fitted to German ‘planes which would have the effect of "freezing" the guns of attacking fighters. It is only a conjecture, of course, but the serial offers it with such a wealth of what looks like _ corroborative

detail, that it is hard to believe the

events described did not happen and that shortly after the outbreak of war the R.A.F. was not actually engaged in a desperate battle of wits with Nazi scientists. The story opens in December, 1939, with Flight-Lieutenant " Aussie" Taylor and Flying-Officer John Fairweather, the

central figures of the story, sadly puzzled by the persistent jamming of their guns at a critical stage of an aerial combat. They do not know it at the time, but their activities are the subject of close interest on the part of a young woman and a man, both of whom have foreign accents and a suspicious furtiveness. It is not long before the British Secret Service is brought into the picture, and from then the story moves on swiftly to all sorts of exciting encounters, with close-ups of certain high quarters in Germany, the activities of a mad professor, and the interior of the Skoda armament works in Prague. The cast is a strong one, and includes many names well known in New Zealand radio. "Aussie" Taylor is played by Arundel Nixon; his companion, Fairweather, is Ron Randell; Queenie Ashton plays the role of Jane Fenton, the girl with a foreign accent, who is believed to be a Nazi agent; and others in the cast are Lou Vernon, Lyndall Barbour, Ronald Morse, Colin McAlister and John Cazabon. Following its introduction at 2ZB, " Air Spy" will start at, 1ZB on Saturday, October 11; 3ZB, October 25, and 4ZB on November 8. It will play at 8.0 pam. every Saturday.