What is Truth?
‘THE BBC’s Guilty Party, at present preceding TIFH from 2ZB on Sunday evenings, is a nice piece of hokum. It’s one of the endless variations of the panel garae. In this one the panel are given the task of solving a crime, having first heard the private eye and his police friends doing their investigation, and then having the opportunity to examine the suspects themselves, "The culprit may lie," the panel is informed, "but the others must tell the truth." But what is truth when the whole crime is fiction anyway? The interrogation sounds most skilfully informal and impromptu, but since the characters have no trouble answering the questions it is obvious that they have been briefed by the author; and since he could not do this unless he knew what questions the panel were going to ask, the show can’t be quite the on-the-spot affair it appears. Which is not to say the panel’s final deduction igs not made with strict fairness, I find the ingenuity of the set-up and the flair with which it is carried off more entertaining than the little mysteries, though they’re not to be sneezed
at:
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 11
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197What is Truth? New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 11
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