Torch-Bearers
HAVE heard of several listeners who get all burned up over 2YC’s Torch of Freedom programme, and recently I have found myself among their number. At first I had grave doubts about (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) accepting in toto a feature cast in such heroic mould, but whenever I have known something of the subjéct dealt with in the session'I have been surprised to find that whatever his obsession with Freedom in its nobler manifestations the script-writer is never guilty of freedom of treatment, except in so far as it is necessitated by the dramatic form. It’s usually possible for the complaeent listener to avoid undue emotional stress by assuming that radio programmes in general and dramatic features in particular are as irresponsible as the air that carries them, but The Torch of Freedom is not an irresponsible programme. Last week’s feature on Dorothea Dix (no relation to Public Pen-friend No. 1) was concerned with prison and asylum reform in America in the middle of the 19th Century,/and was possibly even more shocking to those listeners who, having seen The Snake Pit, know that there is still opportunity for Dorothea
Dix 8 successors:
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 527, 29 July 1949, Page 10
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200Torch-Bearers New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 527, 29 July 1949, Page 10
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