Grand Slam
BYPASSED two previous engagements to attend the-premiere of Radford and Wayne’s Travellers’ Joy from 2YA, and listeners will doubtless be delighted to hear that I was not disappointed. This is veritable R. and W. vintage stuff, the fine old bubbly we lapped up joyously in Fools’ Paradise and savoured, somewhat diluted, in Double Bedlam. But you need a good head for it, and I must confess that owing partly to the exigencies of the jam-making but largely to the nature of the entertainment I emerged somewhat bemusedly from "French Leave." One should drink deep, or join the wowsers. Even in this one episode the plot has thickened, alarmingly, and as usual we were forced to leave Woolcott and Spencer buzzing and blundering in the middle of a web of intrigue, in a somewhat sticky position and entangling themselves deeper by their efforts to do something for the many corpses similarly entangled. Typically cartoon-British in their optimism, their obtuseness and their devotion to the sporting cliché (bridge seems as rich in well-thumbed phrases as cricket or racing), they have also the British characterisic most to be prized by heroes -of radio serials-the inability to win any battle but the last. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 463, 7 May 1948, Page 8
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201Grand Slam New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 463, 7 May 1948, Page 8
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