The Warning Voice
" (_RIME JS OUR. BUSINESS is the ~ most recent of many programmes which demonstrate the falseness of the adage that you can’t run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. You get a good run with the hare and at the end there’s always that warning voice mak-* ing sure you’re »-back where you ought to be, rooting with the hounds. And nobody can deny you get a good run for your money. In "Larceny In" Leeds," however, I found it a/bit more difficult to get back where I belonged in time for the final tally-ho because of the endearing North Country accents of the criminals, which kept reminding me of Wilfred Pickles and Big Jim Edwards in one of my favourite TIFHs. (Surely nd one who called his stooge "laad" in that nice way could be bad at heart?) Furthermore, the voice of the Law was inclined to be patronising to us rabbits, saying things like "You've no idea what these scientific boffins can find in a handful of dust’ As if we hadn’t read our
Thorndike!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 11
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183The Warning Voice New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 11
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