Soul Beneath the Harrow
HE Christchurch stations have evidently gone about to freeze the blood in the listening ear. We were already attending apprehensively to Poe from 3YL when from 3YA The Music of Doom boomed upon us. The Music of Doom proves upon enquiry to be adapted from Mrs. Radcliff’s Mysteries of Udolpho that early (mid-18th Century) example of the spine-chiller which burned up Horace Walpole, and incurred the reproof of Sir Walter Scott. However, its presentation in radio form is not likely to disturb anyone’s sleep; the little of it I have so far heard suffers from the most common fault of radio serials, the interminable ‘explanation by the characters of what has gone before, exchanged among themselves in tones of genteel anguish. As for "The Black Cat," "The Assignation" and the works of Poe generally, the 3YL presentation reduces them to the level of any other radio serial. "For those who like that sort of thing," said Abraham Lincoln, or somebody, "that’s the sort of thing they'll like"; and those whose souls are harrowed up and whose young bloed frozen
by that sort of thing will attain the desired reaction. This commentator, however, remains fretful and no more; he had hoped for better things,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 364, 14 June 1946, Page 10
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207Soul Beneath the Harrow New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 364, 14 June 1946, Page 10
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