No Escape
‘[ HEY say that the best way to be} re ae" alone is in a crowd. I suppose the same paradoxical principle is employed in serials where one escapes from the domestic routine of your own everyday life into the domestic routine of somebody else’s evetyday life. A new type of serial, however, seems to be First Light Fraser Returns, which is just beginning from the ZB stations. This is not domesticity with aq difference, nor is it-as its name might seem to imply --the adventures of a second Superman or Buck Rogers. At least, after hearing the first broadcast, I don’t think it is. It seems that in this serial the listener escapes from politicians and UN wrangles in a chaotic post-war world into a similar one in the radio dimension. The difference is, of course, that in the radio version one may look forward in the course of broadcasts to a satisfactory solution. _ Everything will come right in the end, and the final epsiode is within predictable distance. Which is more than one can say of the original at any time,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 11
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184No Escape New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 11
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