Stories For Listeners
LTHOUGH I have diligently listened to all the local stories so far broadcast in 3YC’s Slightly Out Of True I have not been swept off my feet. The best of these was the first, in which the lonely bushman’s taciturn companion turned out to have been the personification of nemesis. revenging itself upon the man for a misspent youth. The denouement was easy to guess at, but both the story and the way it was told implied the grandeur and starkness which characterises some backblocks areas: the tertible silence of fhe snowbound bush, the hut perched on the side with inside walls covered with yellowing newspapers. The feeling that such a thing could happen here was better established than the presence of the Leprechaun in a later story. Emily Baizeen’s "Carmody" conformed to a stock pattern owing something to writers like Damon Runyon, and within these terms came up to the standard of, say, "Nightbeat."’ And the story did at least have a real twist in the tail. There are, however, more stories to come and the effort to encourage writing which gives real scope to the creative imagination is in itself praiseworthy.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 10
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197Stories For Listeners New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 10
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