Out of This World
"[ HE writers of radio comedies disregard, and rightly, the fact that there are only seven original stories in the world anyway and journey far into the realms of fantasy to fetch fresh material for the insatiable listener. And often the stuff they bring back bears so little relation to life as it is lived that the listener, intolerant of its flimsiness and artificiality, is driven to appreciation of the news bulletins and the sober mike-witness accounts garnered by the Mobile Recording Unit. But W. Graeme Holder was fortunate in the plot of his play, The Great Deliverance. Here is a theme apt for radio, the story of the
great epidemic of wisdom that attacked | the children of the British Isles, The | theme is sufficiently divorced from reality to serve as springboard for some high flights of fantasy and exhibitions of virtuosity on the part of the author, and the NZBS cast interpreted it with gusto. The only fault in the thing was that the author was just a trifle more}
unflagging than his audience.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 553, 27 January 1950, Page 11
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180Out of This World New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 553, 27 January 1950, Page 11
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