The Norths at Home
F all the radio characters who have a regular date with Christchurch listeners, my sympathy goes out most of all to Mr. and Mrs. North. This unfortunate pair have a quite remarkable affinity for corpses--three or four in an an evening is nothing to them. And in spite of this over-indulgence in the sensational, they are not in the least blasé about it all. One could well understand Pam, when confronted with her 47th corpse this season, merely yawning a little. But no: she manages the appropriate reaction, the scream, the hesitant "Ts he-dead?" as she gazes wonderingly at the honeycomb effect of the bulletholes. Hardened listeners may find their suitable reaction a little more difficult to come by. It is not easy to register surprise when Pam finds a corpse behind the curtain-a murderer in the baby’s crib-a body in the bath; these things happen to the Norths every day of their radio lives. Of course, there always remains the question of "Whodunit?" but as the wise murder-fan knows, all things, even the answer to that, come to him who listens: to the end.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 426, 22 August 1947, Page 9
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189The Norths at Home New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 426, 22 August 1947, Page 9
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