CRIME SERIALS
Sir-The Messenger from Mars popped in the other night to say au revoir. He’d been back to Earth studying radio programmes by listening in and I asked what was his most vivid impression. He said: "The crime propaganda; it’s superb, The NBS authorities should be congratue lated for the excellent crime service disseminated." I showed surprise, so he explained: "Tt’s in serial story form, and in a wide variety of styles and forms. There is hardly a crime you Eartheans could come mit about which I have not been able to get the most detailed information, especially in the matter of how to commit it. What appealed to me was the
general way in which it is presented, not as though it were propaganda, but as though it were entertainment. And the frequency of it -- not merely several times a day, but Sundays also! "The great value to me of these crime sessions»has been in those in which the criminals’ mistakes have been revealed. These I have carefully noted, and in the life of crime that I am shortly going to institute on Mars these mistakes of course I shall avoid, and the success I anticipate I shall acknowledge to the NBS." Well I thought, sir, that you and your readers would be interested in the above, and as no one on Earth as yet will be able to spoil his plans, I don’t consider I’ve broken the confidence of the Messenger from Mars.
F.
J.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 329, 12 October 1945, Page 24
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249CRIME SERIALS New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 329, 12 October 1945, Page 24
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