Before the Explosion
[HE DOMESDAY STORY (the NZBS play from 2YC on April 1) was that gift to listeners, a live play on a live topic. At first I thought too live; there was a kind of high-pressure salesmanship in the telling; it was cursed with a multiplicity of characters, and (continued on next page)
among them several newsmen suffering from a sense of mission and a tendency to talk turkey fast into transoceanic phones. A similar set-up has so often led us listeners down some familiar plotpath into a fracas from which the hero emerges with a bulkier pay-envelope in one hand and, his future wife in the other. But The Domesday Story was different. There was a satirical undercurrent beneath the surface picture of conflicting loves and loyalties, and if the dénouement was obvious and, from the author’s point of view, a walkover, this did not prevent it from being artistically acceptable, sobering, and quite pos-
sibly true,
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 821, 22 April 1955, Page 10
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162Before the Explosion New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 821, 22 April 1955, Page 10
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