Larger Than Life
AST year’s Enter a Murderer, this year’s Opening Night, and now Lester Powell’s new BBC thriller The Hidden Motive are good arguments for the theatre as a background for radio skullduggery. Broadcast thrillers have to be more vivid and less complex than written ones, the characters must be more firmly outlined-and there ready to hand is the theatre, where everybody is by nature larger than life. Actors, great. or ham, afe heaven-sent suspects, Un-predictable-you never know where you are with them. Highly strung-their most suspicious actions can later on, without suspicion of cheating, be put down to nerves rather than guilt. And if it turns out that your most sympathetic character is the guilty party it all redounds to the credit of an author who told you he was a very good actor. Moreover, if the author has a sneaking desire to educate his listeners as well as over-stimulate them, he can always do as Lester Powell did and have his dick attend a rehearsal of some classic agreeably familiar to an audience who, if not well-read, are probably constant. listen.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 10
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187Larger Than Life New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 10
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