Stranger Than Truth
"| HE breezy self-assurance of many '" ZB programmes provokes in me a hardening sales-resistance, and a tendency to maintain rather than suspend
disbelief. In a radio world where so much is sensational, one may perhaps be forgiven for occasionally mistaking the. true for just another © sensation. Though I have heard that truth is. stranger than fiction, I am not certain that it is stranger than ZB fiction, and it is this doubt that mars many a ZB programme for me. Could they not grade their sessions for the benefit of the earnest listener? (Fact, fact improved or fact abused, might be suitable classifications.) I have begun listening to the
new series "amous frauds, The first episode dealt with an army-inspired impersonation of Montgomery during the war. It was interesting enough, if true-but was it true? Absolutely true? And was this fraud famous, as the title of the series suggests, or are my friends unusually ignorant, that they should never
have heard of it?
Loquax
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 659, 22 February 1952, Page 10
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166Stranger Than Truth New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 659, 22 February 1952, Page 10
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