Not Frightfully BBC
HAT’S source for the screen is source for the radio, and if David O. Selznick can do it so presumably can Edward Lucy of the BBC; but it is not surprising, seeing that Hollywood got the idea first, that there should be a strong aromatic aroma about the ‘BBC feature The Walls Are Down. The programme aims at presenting in dramatic form (not so dramatic as in The Snake Pit, thank goodness) the éxperiences of a patient in a modern mental hospital. The hero’s case-history runs true to form over a course strewn with Mother Symbols and littefed with rLibidos. That he wins through to sanity in the end is largely due to the ministrations of a competent woman doctor, who says with felicitous banality (when he. protests that her explanations of his subconscious seem a little far-fetched) "But the subconscious is far-fetched, Mr. So-and@o." A fascinating programme, but with little of that crisp sense of destination characteristic of recent BBC _ excursions into medical fields. And occasionally guilty of the woolly portentousness of statements such as "Every minute of our lives each one of us is moving either nearer to or further away from a mental hospital." Which gives those of us who flatter ourselves that we are moving further and further away a dreadful sense of having no place to ‘go, \
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 547, 16 December 1949, Page 11
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225Not Frightfully BBC New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 547, 16 December 1949, Page 11
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