Slices of Whimsy
UT why, I wonder, do we hear Maurice Duggan’s From the Diary of a Voyage and his reviews in the ZB Books, and not his stories? The NZBS has not been very adventurous with the short story. There is no differentiation between YA stories and what might be YC stories if we were given any. We might expect from the YCs something longer, more penetrating, than the sus-pense-and-surprise-packets designed to relax the busy housewife at afternoontea time; but we find that if the YCs broadcast stories at all they are repeats ; of the same ones. There seems to be a dogma abroad that only a story with ‘a plot is suitable for the radio-and that means a-plot so obvious that it hits you over the head with a sledge-hammer. I like plots, too, but I prefer them when their mechanism is less exposed to the public view. Plots are searcely the point, however. YC listeners are credited with considerable intelligence and powers of concentration when it comes to some of the music, poetry, drama and talks on abstruse topics. Why not stories?
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 877, 25 May 1956, Page 10
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187Slices of Whimsy New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 877, 25 May 1956, Page 10
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