Lizzie Radio Play

[augusta]

Here is a link to a 1936 radio play on Lizzie Borden. It isn't very long.

https://archive.org/details/UnsolvedMys ... BordenCase

[Curryong]

It is interesting, augusta. Thanks for posting it. Love the dramatic music ! To my Australian ears Bridget had no Irish accent and Lizzie sounded a wee bit Southern. Like the tramp hiding away for a day and into the night theory from the writers!

[mbhenty]

and some more

Lizzie of Savannah Georgia.

Rhet, Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?

Frankly, my dear Lizzie, I don't give a damn!

[twinsrwe]

What a great find, Augusta! Thank you for posting this link for us. I found it interesting to hear this play via a radio; I really had to listen carefully and exercise my imagination. Very different from watching a play on TV.

I did not detect an Irish Accent when Bridget spoke, either.

Lizzie spoke faster than I expected her to, after all, she didn't do anything in a hurry. Or did she? On the day the murders occurred Lizzie appeared too calm given the circumstances of a double murder in her home in broad daylight. By her speaking so fast in this radio play, it gives me the impression that she was displaying a higher state of emotion than the calm, cool and collected Lizzie that everyone observed on August 4th, 1892.

Oops! Lizzie addressed Abby as 'mother'??? Hmmm, Lizzie testified that she addressed her 'step-mother' as 'Mrs. Borden'.

[Curryong]

Maybe the actress was hoping to audition for the film role, mb. Wasnt Clark Gable (Rhett) the great sex symbol of the era? Hey, a gig is a gig. A radio play about a murder in Mass. is as good a place as any to show off that Southern Belle accent!

[mbhenty]

That's real funny Curry...

Right you are!

I enjoyed it. Had a couple of laughs.

I loved those old Radio dramas. One gets to exercise One's imagination. Today nothing is left to imagination. Others do the thinking for us and many are happy with that.

Like a stage play, radio plays are over the top. Actors need to make up in speech what we don't witness in visual performance.

[Curryong]

Yes, I too can remember radio dramas, though when I was 11 my family took the plunge and bought a TV. The BBC were frightfully proper, doncha know, and produced a lot of what could be described as fairly highbrow stuff, Ibsen, Marlowe, Shaw etc. which weren't everyone's cup of tea, but to be fair there were a lot of comedies, detective plays and adaptations of West End hits as well, like Agatha Christie's plays. I can remember ghost stories being especially effective on radio. I agree. The imagination has full reign when nothing's visual. It's a pity it's not done nowadays.

[Fargo]

I never heard this one before. I have one cd but its not this one.

[patsy]

Oh so interesting. Loved the narrator's voice and I didn't hear any Irish accent either. And Lizzie did sound southern to me too.

Brings back memories of my childhood sitting in front of the radio.

Thanks for posting this, Augusta.