Old Acquaintances
A SERIAL that’s going to last more than a month or so should be easy to live with, and its characters should not be too far outside the normal family circle. I find The Good Companions good listening. It has fascination but no urgency, and family living tends to make you prefer the type of serial that can be taken or left alone. I began my listening with blurred memories of book and film, sufficient to make me hail the characters as old acquaintances yet not such close ones that I need resent differences in interpretation. When the serial is finished I shall probably re-read the book, and find it difficult to realise that Jess Oakroyd came before Wilfred
Pickles,
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 10
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124Old Acquaintances New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 10
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