"Alf's Dream"
NE of the series of stories read by’ a speaker of the NZBS production unit was a trifle by W. W. Jacobs, "Alf’s Dream." I must admit) I have read this author and liked him immensely; the nautically-minded characters of his yarns generally manage to raise a quiet chuckle or two, But I’m afraid "Alf’s Dream" is not among the best of his efforts-or at any rate it didn’t seem so when heard on the radio,
A tale of misguided courtship, with a flavour so old-fashioned that one could sense the aspidistra on the hall table, it was expertly read, and the reader certainly got out of it everything that was written into the original. But there just wasn’t enough in the story to equal the effort that was put into producing it, and it fell a trifle flat. I had the feeling that I had heard it all before, and written so much better-probably an unconscious echo of the number of times I have heard some radio speaker or other reading the breach-of-promise scenes from Pickwick.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 412, 16 May 1947, Page 8
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179"Alf's Dream" New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 412, 16 May 1947, Page 8
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