Crimes Reconstructed
T is the theory of the Professor of Poetry at Oxford, alias C. Day Lewis, alias Nicholas Blake, that the reading of crime stories acts as a valuable safety valve for the repressed criminal tendencies of the ordinary decent citizen. It may be that 4YA endorses this belief, for having completed the series Crime Is Our Business, it now embarks on another, Prisoner at the Bar, again at a late hour when John Citizen, about to blow the lid off his repressions, might well be looking out his gat, his jemmy and his mask, or, if he follows another school of violence, laying in his stock of fly-papers, and checking up on his supply of curare. Edgar Lustgarten, with his vivid accounts of famous crimes, offers a safety-valve which 7an be guaranteed to hold the potential listener-criminal comfortably by his set. It is not surprising that this series of programmes, heard from 4YA at 10.0 p.m. on Thursdays, should be polished productions, for Edgar Lustgarten brings to them the triple qualifications of barrister, experienced broadcaster, and writer of better than average thrillers. As a fesult, the law is accurate, the characterisation is neat, and the delivety, with subtle variations in tone and acceht, gives the impression of a team of actors rather than one man’s narra-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 10
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220Crimes Reconstructed New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 10
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