Fun and Games
qe HERE’S plenty of humour going the ‘" rounds of the Wellington stations for those who are taking a holiday from instructional listening-it must be Father Christmas who has been giving us two ITMA’s and two Radford-and-Waynes per week. Crime, Gentlemen, Please, deserves special mention, if only because it repeats so successfully the old Radford-and-Wayne formula, and connoisseurs of the blend will find it interesting to compare 2YC’s revival of Fool’s Paradise (cricket and espionage) with 2YA’s "new" thriller Crime, Gentlemen, Please (archeology and smuggling). But however far from their natural habitat (the
Oval} Radford and Wayne may stray, their cricketers’ code never deserts them, and the conflict is always, in essence, between the holders of a Straight Bat and the bodyline bowlers. Confident by intuition and past experience that the Straight Bat will triumph the listener does not suffer any of the uncomfortable excitement attendant on the average thriller and can leave his heroes in the jaws of death from Monday to Monday without a qualm,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 497, 31 December 1948, Page 9
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169Fun and Games New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 497, 31 December 1948, Page 9
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