In the Shadows

New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 19

In the Shadows

ONALD KERSHAW is chief accountant of the big importing firm of Maxwell and Vincent, a position he has held for many years. He lives with his wife’ and family in the usual comfortable villa in a middle-class suburb. They are all engaged jin local activities’, tennis clubs, women’s clubs, municipal politics, everything that goes to make up active, normal, respectable lives. Suddenly Donald Kershaw is arrested for embezzling his firm’s money. No sacrifice is too great for his defence. He contimually affirms his innocence. His family believes him,. but a jury finds him guilty and sentences him to five years’ imprisonment. Under the Shadows of Doubt, the family’s relationships one with another and with people outside the home be-. come increasingly strained, but the day comes when the shadows move away. By then the Kershaws have learnt who are their friends and the need for true inner fortitude in themselves. In the shadows, too, live the men and women who haunt them for preferencesmugglers. The ZB feature Contraband tells many stories of the perverse determination which has gripped men and made them do battle with the Law, from the time when Excise authorities were first set up. The strangest commodities are handled by smugglers, from narcotics to refugees, from money to parakeets (which must be kept quiet by ingenious methods while being run’ through Customs checks). ZB listeners can follow the adventures of the Kershaw family in Shadows of Doubt on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7.30-p.m., starting October 12. Contraband begins from all ZB stations on October 8 and will be heard on Wednesdays and Fridays at 10.30 p.m,