Fascination of Crime
CRIMINALS, their pursuit and punishment, is a subject with a fascination for the law-abiding almost as strong as that which it exercises over the num"erically lesser breeds, and this fascination radio has exploited to the limit. Since Richard Singer has transferred his attentions from Wellington stations at the moment (another complaint of "mine is that "Call Yourself a Detective" had its 2YA premiere delayed a fortmight) I have been listening to 2ZB’s Prisoner at the Bar, as nice a piece of -erime reportage as you'd meet in a day’s dial-twiddling. This programme of -dramatisations of actual cases probably consists of three parts drama and one part history (the actual proportions are possibly known only to Mr. Martin, the scriptwriter, and his researcher) but the delightful part is that it really doesn’t matter. If we want a neat passage of historical truth we can go elsewhere (though where is an increasingly difficult question). What we get in Prisoner at the Bar is an elaborately got-up Christmas cracker. We play with it, finally pull it and Bang! the dénouement, whereupon there flutters to the floor the hackneyed but necessary motto, "Crime Does Not Pay."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 425, 15 August 1947, Page 10
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195Fascination of Crime New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 425, 15 August 1947, Page 10
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