Breach-of-Promise
ROM time to time on a Sunday we have scenes from Dickens in 4YA’s afternoon programme. So far they have all been well up to standard, They do not seem to be too far removed from plain readings of Dickens’ text (which would really be the easiest and most effective way to present Dickens), and the last one I heard, "Bardell versus Pickwick," was no exception. It was interesting to compare yet another breach-of-promise case with those two I have mentioned before, "Trial by Jury" and the case of Mary Bateman. Only a small incongruity appeared in the presentation of Pickwick’s dilemma, the description of the crowd leaving the courtroom, wherein we were treated, unnecessarily I thought, to a running commentary so modern in style that the invisible microphone seemed to hold the stage-a palpable anachronism.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 357, 26 April 1946, Page 11
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137Breach-of-Promise New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 357, 26 April 1946, Page 11
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