Rogues' Gallery
OFTEN tune to 4ZB on Sunday evenings for Prisoner at the Bar, but so far I have found this a generally depressing programme with little to lighten its prevailing gloom: The rogues’ portraits displayed herein reveal a monotonous similarity, with only a few characters whose vivid personality acts as leaven in the criminal dough. Murderers, abductors, thieves, charlatans, tricksters, perpetrators of all the crimes in the calendar, have been paraded for our in§pection, and the prevailing theme
of mental and moral aberration makes’ Prisoner at the Bar a programme whose appeal is mainly for those of us who love to see a murder when we’re out. This is well enough when the theme of "crime doesn’t pay" is featured; but it is surely time to protest when a proven criminal is represented as rather a glamorous individual (as in the Gilbert kidnapping incident) and no antidote is provided to his poisonous creed that "living honestly isn’t exciting enough." What we need is a genius to provide programmes which will sell the | world the idea that honest living can be made as exciting as the imagination desires.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 401, 28 February 1947, Page 13
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188Rogues' Gallery New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 401, 28 February 1947, Page 13
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