Short Stories Wanted
HE suitability of the short story for radio reading has been stressed often enough in these columns, but this was brought home again forcibly to me when 4YA presented the NZBS feature Watch Below. This story of a young and inexperienced engineer, left alorfie with a recalcitrant engine in the bowels of his first ship, is a small masterpiece of psychology. The youngster goes on watch a boy and comes off again a man, after his first assumption of real responsibility; and the listener’s insight into the mind of the young engineer is due as much to Dermot Cathie’s skilled readirfz as to the story itself. At present, as far as my listening goes, we have only the recorded short stories done by the NZBS, and the work of such yarn-spinners as Tusitala, in the almost inexhaustible field of the short story. I cannot help feeling that there must be dozens of people with good voices and a flair for reading aloud who could contribute to a Short Story Series read directly from local stations. Cannot such excellent readers be prevailed upon to inaugurate a: new session of local talent? Short story readings could be used to replace such worn-out favourites as Dad and Dave,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 455, 12 March 1948, Page 8
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208Short Stories Wanted New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 455, 12 March 1948, Page 8
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