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ONEY WITH MENACES from 4ZB was a play about kidnapping, No, don’t stop reading-this®’ was a kidnapping "with a difference. It began with a mysterious "phone call to a businessman’s office, the unknown informant telling him that his little daughter had been kidnapped. Entering into the quaking shoes of the victimised father, the listener followed him through a maze of situations in his endeavours to get in touch with the kidnappers, pay the Tansom, and get his child back. He never did succeed in doing this, for a very unobvious reason which shall not be disclosed here, since I hope readers will hear this play sometimes. But the tension of the ever-mounting suspense, and the increasing agony of the father in his frustrated attempts to come to grips with an adversary who to the end remains nothing but a voice on the telephone, are grimly told in a manner reminiscent of that spine-chilling story "The Torture by Hope" (which title might well have been stolen for this very play). Money With Menaces was produced by the NZBS, and very well produced, too.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 408, 18 April 1947, Page 8
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183Menace New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 408, 18 April 1947, Page 8
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