HEN is a radio play not a radio play? When, I should say, it is a concealed documentary. Not that I have any objection to’ documentaries, but I like to know when I am going to listen to one. V. T. Brauer’s Windows for the Blind (NZBS) had a splendid subject in the life-story of Louis Braille, and, since it was well done, the feature made a remarkable man who had only been a name to me into a living personality. But the author had fallen between the two stools of play and documentary. The piece was not dramatic enough for the one and did not have quite enough background for the other. Perhaps we need a new word for this kind of thing-a "biomentary" or a "docudrama," ‘maybe, but not, please, a "play," as advertised.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 12
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136Untitled New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 12
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