Gruesome
N the 4ZB programmes History’s Unsolved Mysteries has been replaced by This Actually Happened. The first of these new programmes certainly impressed me, but not perhaps in the way its organisers intended. Far from wishing to hear the programme again, I felt that the first instalment was more than enough for me, if the atmosphere of future episodes is anything like that of the first two which formed this programme. "The Holocaust" concerned a river-boat with hundreds of passengers bound on a picnic; the boat takes fire and a living bonfire ensues, drownings being addeg to burnings owing to defective life-jackets. The whole story was a hair-raising nightmare. "The Living Tomb" concerned a German poet’s protracted death-bed scene, his wish to be buried in a dead tree, and the finding of his skeleton in the tree (which afterwards bloomed again) by a couple of scientists. more than a hundred years later. I can’t say that grim subjects such as these appeal to me, unless very well done, although it is probable that they will find a ready circle of listeners. I shall give the session a fair trial by listening again, but any more gloating on the macabre and horrible (even if true) will turn me into a confirmed nonlistener to This Actually Happened.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 413, 23 May 1947, Page 11
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215Gruesome New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 413, 23 May 1947, Page 11
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