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FOR quiet subtlety and thosé nuances of character, description, and. emotional content which, properly. used, can turn a simple tale into a work of art, there is no doubt that the short story form offers more possibilities than the short radio play. Possibly I may be drawing a general conclusion from particular cases, but what else is the listener to do when the standard of radio stories remains consistently high, while ‘that of short radio plays (we don’t get any long ones nowadays, anyhow), remains, with minor exceptions, somewhere between Fair and Very Poor. Ethel Fielding’s Little Silver Goat, the most recent story of the NZBS series to come my way, was a delicate miniature finely read by William Austin, It was all over in a quarter-of-an-hour; but I searched the programmes in vain for a play of equal length and tee uar tes felicity,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 11
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146Miniature New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 11
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