Words Not Wasted
SEEM to have heard so much magazine fiction from 4YA’s Short Story Time that only when, like Carlyle in the wilds of Craigenputtock, I am mad for the sound of human speech, do I now tune in to this session: I have had my fill of ghosts, whimsy and romance, historical and sentimental. But the other night we were given a story by J. Jefferson Farjeon, "Murder over Draughts." It was tead by two New Zealanders with an absence of fuss and a fine sense of atmosphere. This was, of course, also magazine fiction, but of the good straightforward roman policier type, with
no arty pretensions about it. Its brevity ensured that each word carried the story forward, an essential thing in radio, since unnecessary verbal frills cannot be skipped, as in reading, but must be
endured.
Loquax
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 10
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141Words Not Wasted New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 10
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