Miss Sayers's Mr. Budd
OROTHY SAYERS’S The Inspiration of Mr. Budd, as heard recently from 2YA, was a happy inspiration for half-past ten of a Sunday evening. Miss Sayers’s genius translates well to radio, as those who heard The Man Born to be King will remember. "Mr. Budd" (not to be confused with the ubiquitous Lanny of Mr. Upton Sinclair) belongs of course to a much less lofty genre, but our half-hour with him convinces us of his reality. Here is no super-sleuth, but a timid and modest little barber, redeemed from mediocrity by his. conscientiousness as a citizen and his pride in his profession. There is no suggestion of violence in this little tale of Mr. Budd’s contact with the criminal, nothing to rob us of even a minute of that preci eight hours so essential to prepare for the working week.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 423, 1 August 1947, Page 13
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143Miss Sayers's Mr. Budd New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 423, 1 August 1947, Page 13
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