Saturday Frustrations
KNOW of nothing more frustrating than an evening spent half-listening to a programme as full of concentrated drama as 2ZB’s Saturday night. We were playing bridge at a neighbour’s, and the poignancy of partner's reprodches was quite drowned for me by the narrator’s fear-rasped accents: "But I wouldn’t go there after dark because, you see-THEY WALK BY NIGHT!" This at the conclusion of the trial for witchcraft of Agnes Somebody who, after poisoning a wife, has taken protection. money from the gullible husband. It was even worse when we came to The Cruel Sea and k was forced to leave Compass Rose blundering through fog in a U-Boat infested sea in order to do a little blundering myself in my own Culbertian fog. Next Saturday, I vowed, I'd stay home and concentrate. But I was disappointed in They Walk by Night. This week it was merely. an hysterical Katherine Howard, pleading in clichés at the top of her voice, and the custodian-narrator, something of a Wilfred Shadbolt, making ghoulish remarks such as "They were happy at the court between executions." The Cruel Sea, however, was well worth concentrated attention.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 11
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191Saturday Frustrations New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 11
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