Ranting Anecdotage
STATION 4YA’s new serial, The Tower of London, promises to be rich in unconscious humour, if little else. The first episode gave us in five seconds’ drama the origins of the British people -"Waves of invasion! Picts! Angles!! Saxons!!! Danes!!! But the indomitable spirit was there, in the Churchill of his day, hurling bogus historical oaths-"By the old god Thor may the gutter-dogs have your rotting carcase!" This was ranting melodrama with a vengeance, and the mild infusion of primary-school history-book anecdotage was not enough to make honest entertainment of it. Valueless even at this level, The Tower of London is a programme that would not have been considered even for younger children; why, then, should it be given to adults?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 666, 10 April 1952, Page 10
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123Ranting Anecdotage New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 666, 10 April 1952, Page 10
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