Amnesia
ENJOYED the neat little two-man vehicle for Selwyn Toogood and William Austin, The Waters of Lethe, which I heard from 2ZB on a recent Sunday evening. Written by G. Murtay Milne, it is a tough little drama about amnesia, a particularly radioactive topic, I have always thought, since it enables the central character to sfart off on equal terms with his ‘audience. When both know exactly nothing about what has gone before, it is not necessary, for example, to find out what the hero looks like by underhand means ("I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw a well-dressed man of five feet ten -.. "). And though radio thrillers are usually full of indefinable menace there is even more likelihood of the menace being indefinable if the hero doesn’t know who he is or where he was last night. My only quarrel with The Waters of Lethe was the somewhat unnecessary troubling of the waters by bursts of invariably theavy and often inappropriate music. Why a cheerful march for the hero’s hunted ascent of the escalator?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 447, 16 January 1948, Page 8
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177Amnesia New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 447, 16 January 1948, Page 8
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