Good But Disagreeable
PORTRAIT OF SIR EDWARD COKE was undoubtedly the BBC’s answer to 3D. It came at you from all levels at once-a voice hissing off-mike, "Here comes a chopper to chop off your head," Lady Coke (almost too sympathetically played by Beatric Lehmann). saying dispassionately, "I never liked Edward," Sir Edward himself browbeating poor Sir Walter Raleigh, King James administering a tongue-lashing to his stiffkneed servant, a street-mummer mumming a downright handsome epitaph. When the programme ended I couldn’t believe it had lasted an hour, so fascinated -had I been by the pyrotechnics. However, looking back I feel it is probably a flaw in the programme that if I hadn’t had my Listener note, "Gunpowder Coke," beside me, I should have ‘been in grave danger of missing the essential part of the programme, that Sir Edward Coke was a Good Thing, so strongly did the impression of personal disagreeableness outweigh that of per-
sonal integrity.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 8
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159Good But Disagreeable New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 8
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