Where Angels Fear....
VERY Monday night sees me rushing into Fool’s Paradise, in my cpinion the funniest programme on the air at the moment. The chief characters are two amateur cricketers, Spencer and Woolcott (Wayne and Radford) epitomising all that is best in what a recent correspondent so happily called "bunnyrabbitry." In a recent episode, "Bodyline," there is, as might be expected, a corpse. Charlie, the corpse, is an integral part of the plot, but to me his significance lies not so much in the part he plays (and has played) in the action as in his faculty for bringing out the essential qualities of those with whom he comes in contact. He is the perfect touchstone. The essential villainy of Charlie’s former colleagues (members of an enemy spy ring) is shown by the fact that they treat him as a piece of left luggage for the purpose of embarrassing their enemies; the essential goodness indigenous to the English cricketer, however humble, is shown by Spencer and Woolcott’s failure to be embarrassed for long, or to feel anything but slightly irritated affection for Charlie at each of his frequent reappearances. At no time do Spencer and Woolcott suspect Foul Play, for this is a thing no cricketer has ever heard of. Ask the Australians.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 378, 20 September 1946, Page 14
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214Where Angels Fear.... New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 378, 20 September 1946, Page 14
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