3YA's Mr. Pickwick
F that weekly surprise programme, "Reserved," has a fault, it is a certain tendency to impressive emotion and descriptions of the natural scenery. Therefore we are pleasantly surprised when "Reserved," the first of 1946, turned out to be Charles Laughton’s
reading of "Mr. Pickwick’s Christmas." This in turn proved, of course, to be the two episodes "the Ride to Muggleton" and "the Ball at Dingley Dell"-which were once before _presented in a similar manner by 3YL in a literary reading. The Laughton ver-
sion had all the appropriate gusto and included two or three episodes-the noble colloquy between Sam Weller and the Fat Boy, and the concerted assault on Mr. Pickwick when he stood under the mistletoe-which we missed before. But I must demand, with all the purist’s sternness, what became of the codfish? The codfish was a beast of leviathan dimensions Which travelled on the Muggleton coach, and without it that journey is not itself.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 344, 25 January 1946, Page 9
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1593YA's Mr. Pickwick New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 344, 25 January 1946, Page 9
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