Pleasantly Suspended
‘| HE early stages of a good serial are always pleasantly agonising to the listener. The second episode of Wilkie Collins's No Name (Saturday nights from 2YC) was called "The Sky Darkens:" a father dies intestate in a railway accident, and the listener is left a prey to the basest suspicions. How wise is the BBC to recognise the suspense value of the minor classic! Had this been a better-known book we could have consulted our memory, our librarian or our friends; had it been a really interminable radio seria! still in the writing we could have entertained hopes of impeding the relentless flood of tragedy by a breakwater of pro‘esting letters. Ag it is, we are absolved from the necessity of action, waiting a further instalment of what is both unalterable
past and. unknown future.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 811, 11 February 1955, Page 11
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139Pleasantly Suspended New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 811, 11 February 1955, Page 11
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