Less of a Good Thing
APPOINTMENT WITH FEAR is of such a consistently high standard that it seems a pity to spoil the effect by overloading the sessions with it. Heard once a week or even less often, it has an undeniably pungent effect on the week’s programmes. Heard twice in a week, it loses its punch. Heard twice in an evening (from 4YA and 4YO) it begins to lose semblance of reality. One realises that this programme is, after all, only a series of short thrillers and
that even John Dickson Carr can’t be expected to remain at his highest level of interest and excitement with every episode. The two plays which were heard on the same night were, moreover, among the least impressive of the series, apd the amateur armchairsleuth could pick plenty of faults in both of them — which doesn’t often happen with this author! Therefore I am asking something improbable-I am asking’ for less of a good thing instead of more. The effect of these dramatic plays should not be spoiled by putting them on too often; not more than once a fortnight, perhaps, thus permitting the listeners’ appetite to increase to famishing-point before the gristly titbit appears on the table.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 11
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205Less of a Good Thing New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 11
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