We Have Been Warned
. N spite of its dramatic form, Nesta Pain’s production "Atomic Energy," a BBC programme broadcast recently from 3YA, was not calculated to provide fireside entertainment. The dominant theme was one of warning-a plea to "do something before it is too late," which does not go well with a comfortable chair by the hearth. The futuristic description which ends the programme, of an atomic bomb explosion over London in the year 1953, was too realistic and- too wholly credible to be regarded with the detached interest one usually accords such flights of the imagination. It was only too obvious that there was no need for eyen six years to elapse before such qa disaster-inadequate word -became possible; it could happen today. This was a programme obviously intended to make the listener uncomfortable, and it was admirably done. Nesta Pain makes full use of the dramatic form without letting it take control. And there was a strong sense of understatement and reserve about the whole thing which made for force and directness, like a cryptic motice board: You Have Been Warned!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 8
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183We Have Been Warned New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 8
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