Exciting and Intelligent
OT many radio plays have the stamina to last for an hour and a half without flagging. That, at least, is my conclusion after weeks of Monday nights during which I have been enveloped by words as busily getting nowhere as an ordinary family conversation, when my hands have itched to start knitting or something equally constructive and time-passing. It may be, too, that the strain on the NZBS of keeping up such an output of long plays
is responsible for the tired, routine production of many of them. But occasionally they come up with a winner, and one of these was The Shadow of Doubt, adapted by Oliver A. Gillespie from a play by Norman King. "We are specialists and have our own language — we can’t communicate with people like you." That remark by the physicist in the play was probably the extent of what it told us about Nunn May, Fuchs and the rest of them, who inspired it; but as a story on its own it was exciting and intelligent, and the same qualities were shown in the production by the Auckland studio, with some Australian help. Perhaps the happy ending weakened it a little, but I’m in favour of an occasional wishful thought.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 21
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212Exciting and Intelligent New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 21
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