Listeners Like Adaptations Of Classics

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 29, 30 December 1938, Page 3

Listeners Like Adaptations Of Classics

VTATION 2ZB received convincing proof the other Sunday night of interest listeners take in. serialised: ° adaptations of the classics, ; . LO ' The -final- _ épisode ‘of Charies Dicken§’s "Egle of Two Cities" was being played. when a power failure ¢ut..off the seis of a large number of listeners in the Wellington South aréa. It-was only a few | minutes ‘before the station was inundated with requests that the episede be replayed, and replayed it was the following night. At Palmerston North, 2ZA had ah even more remarkable experience. When the station commenced' a radio adaptation of Alexandre: Dumas’s famous novel, "Count of Monte Cristo," the principal local lending libraries had only two ‘copies each of the book. Demand for "The Count . of Monte Cristo’ increased . much, however, that they compelled to buy up to. six copies each, and at the present time one library estimates that its copies of the book are reserved and will be in circulation until 1940. Similarly, when "Mutiny of the Bounty" was being broadcast from 2ZB,: Wellington bookshops experlkenced an unprecedented demand for Nordhoff and Hall’s book.