Reductio ad Absurdum
HE American programme Tell It Again, heard from 1ZB on Sunday evenings, which piifpofts to present dramatisations of "the world’s best-loved stories," is clearly the radio équivalent of those appalling "Classic Comics." In half-an-hour’s listening we get a tea-! spoonful of diluted Bovril in place of the bull. "Casey at the Bat" was not even Disney’s version, but a soap-opera-like explanation by Casey of everits leading up to his allowing himself to be stfuck out by his adopted son! "Typee" was an infuriating travesty of Herman Melville’s graphic picture of Polynesian life, with a couple of minor incidents played up to givé a misleading impression of the nature of the book and with the ending falsified. After heating these, I shuddered as I tuned. in to Edward Hale’s "The Man Without a Country." Surprisingly this kept reasonably close
to the story and actually used some of Hale’s own words. The reason, doubtless, is that this is a short story and so can be _ honestly treated in thirty minutes. But I note that this remarkable series. also contains "Tom Sawyer’ and "Les Miserables"! "Les Miserables" in half-an-hour! O God! O Montreal!
J C
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 549, 30 December 1949, Page 8
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196Reductio ad Absurdum New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 549, 30 December 1949, Page 8
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