Stories for Entertainment
N a week of scrappy listening, induced by an irresponsible holiday feeling, I have nodded a good deal more than Homer. Station 3YC’s "The Old Coattage" in the Slightly Out of True series, a ghost story set in Akaroa, did, how‘ever, impress me as being good light entertainment. The story had an acceptable explanation of the supposed suicide of its heroine. This makes two good stories in a row when lined up with the one of the previous week by G, C. A. Wall, in which a heavy and irascible robot was induced to have a shot at swimming, a venture which put an end to his brief, mechanical career. The
woslowing up of the human voice and consequent lowering of pitch to suit the robot was both appropriate and humorous. "Summer Rain," an adaptation of a Spanish play, produced by the BBC and broadcast from 3YA, provided half at hour’s amusement over the straits an irritable elderly couple are put to when recognising that they were once sweethearts. One can never be sure that humour wil] be of the kind we can enjoy, when it comes to a foreign work, but it certainlystriumphed here.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 740, 18 September 1953, Page 10
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199Stories for Entertainment New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 740, 18 September 1953, Page 10
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