Tommy Handley
EATH has laid a heavy hand on the programmes recently. The talk I heard by James Agate on The Art of Living was all the more impressive coming from one who has now no need to practise it, and it was a good test of the speaker’s calibre that the sentiments expressed should still maintain their sturdy: validity in spite of the dwarfing effect of the shadow %f death, which reduces so many of our "Wake Up and Live" philosophies to chickweed proportions. And now I have just heard of the sudden death of Tommy Handley, who has been my Saturday night solace for many years, and provided me with more laughs than all the other radio comics put together. All due credit of course to ITMA’s scriptwriter, but it was Tommy, with his india-rubber voice, who put the laughs across, and listeners will remember him fondly for the fact that he never kowtowed to the studio audience at the expense of the listening one.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 500, 21 January 1949, Page 9
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167Tommy Handley New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 500, 21 January 1949, Page 9
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