Four-Minute Alibi
OME time ago, a writer in these colums commented on the choice of Bach’s "Art of Fugue" as a radio-alibi in a certain detective novel, since this work, in spite of Miss Marsh’s assurances, had at that time not been heard on the radio in this country. Those who have been listening to 4YA on Friday nights now know different. Bach’s "Art of Fugue" has made brief but regular appearances, before and after the weekly readings by Professor T, D. Adams, and selections have been used by a. skilful hand to illustrate a variety of subjects. Nothing could better have set the stage for readings from Mrs, Gaskell’s Cranford than the string quartet’s performance of something labelled, simply, Contrapunctus 9. But as for providing an alibi such as the one in Died in the Wool, this would not be possible in the short extracts played, unless the mufder were done with fine despatch in the time taken to play one side of a record. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 389, 6 December 1946, Page 15
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166Four-Minute Alibi New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 389, 6 December 1946, Page 15
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