Fact and Fiction
Q plays of outstanding quality, one from the NZBS, one from the BBC, made last week a good one for The local play was a rebroadcast of Edward Crankshaw’s The Creedy Case (1YA) which I remembered from two years back as an exceptionally fine drama. Perhaps we have passed a little beyond the McCarthy-induced climate of near-hysteria about Communist spies
in which Mr Crankshaw’s play was written, but his story of an Army officer who risks his career in defence of the principle of fair trial has a permanent point and, as played by the Wellington cast, carried considerable punch. ‘ithe BBC Flight Back (ZB Sunday Showcase) however, had more impact on me -a case of truth being more dramatic than fiction. In dramatising the remarkable story of Flight-Sergeant Rawdon Middleton, V.C., who brought his plane back home, while it was badly damaged and he himself dying, the BBC paid a well-deserved tribute, not only to this gallant flier but to thousands of other brave R.A.F, men. Heavily disguised in an Australian accent, Anthony Quayle played Middleton with conviction and quiet authority. And the voices of the survivors of the flight speaking at the end did not spoil the drama, but gave it extra poignancy and ambience. A splendid programme.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1049, 2 October 1959, Page 20
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213Fact and Fiction New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1049, 2 October 1959, Page 20
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