Vacation for the Doctor
OCTOR MAC is to retire from the ZB stations for about 17 weeks. His locum tenens will be another serial, Whispers in Tahiti, Which also contains a physician or two, one of whom opens the story by giving the hero, John Merrick (a young novelist) the depressing news that he has but six months to live. Merrick casts himself adrift from his wife, his career and friends, and goes to Tahiti. Meanwhile his wife, believing him dead, has married one of his old friends. But Merrick turns up again and during his absence one of his novels has become -a best-seller. How the characters get themselves out of this painful predicament will be told in the course of 52 episodes to be heard at 9.0 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Whispers in Tahiti will start at 1ZB on Thursday, August 26; 2ZB on Tuesday, September 7; "3ZB on Thursday, September 16; 4ZB an Thursday, September 30, and at 2ZA on Tuesday, October 12.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 477, 13 August 1948, Page 12
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168Vacation for the Doctor New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 477, 13 August 1948, Page 12
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