Evening Murders
J;ORTUNATELY you don’t have to go out if you like to see a murder; I have seen quite a lot (in my mind’s eye, I mean) by staying -home listening to 2ZB. Sudden death crops up all over the evening programmes-not just in the bona-fide thrillers where you're lucky if you trip over a corpse every third instalment. Take my last week’s listening: in Find the Fib an elderly scientist poisoned by strychnine, in Famous Frauds a brother-in-law chloroformed, in Surprise Endings a destitute girl driven to suicide. And in I Spy a head rolls into the basket most Mondays. But we certainly stop well this side of morbidity. The corpse is merely a stage prop or a literary convention, the starting point or finishing point of a programme, and never of any interest in itself. Much more morbid than the sudden death of the evening’ feature is to my mind the morbid interest taken by listeners in the everlasting life of the morning serial.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 666, 10 April 1952, Page 11
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169Evening Murders New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 666, 10 April 1952, Page 11
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