Great Woman
Y second experience of "Great Women Treated Lightly" proved no better an example of the "lightness" of the programme than my first, for it proved to be the history of Charlotte Corday, told in a very straightforward and effectively dramatic manner.’ To begin with, the play took the form of an imaginary dialogue between a modern reporter and Charlotte, but it soon became her own story as re-told by, herself, and I was sorry not to hear the name of the actress who spoke the words of Charlotte, since her modulated, clear voice was instrumental in bringing the character vividly to life. The listener followed the girl, determined in her terrible purpose as the most blasé of assassins, into the shop where she bought the knife; to the home of Marat; into the very room where her irrevocable and horrible deed was accomplished; finally to the gaol where she awaited death. Told as a simple narrative, without any attempt to make a complicated drama of the events of the stark tale, this true story was more gripping than’ the most bloodthirsty of radio fiction.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 359, 10 May 1946, Page 15
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186Great Woman New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 359, 10 May 1946, Page 15
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