New Deal, Old Deck
[N card games the Joker, aptly named, frequently has the final say. He has it, too, in a new radio series named for him which starts next week from the ZB stations. There are 52 cards in the pack apart from the Joker, and+there are 52 stories in this series of self-contained, half-hour programmes." The Joker in this pack is the narrator, who laces each story with his own peculiar irony. The first story in The Joker is based on the Ten of Spades, which is described as "a card from the House of Death. It stands for disillusionment, loss of lib-erty-or even of life." The story concerns- a small-time crook named Pete Anakin, who perpetrates murder-and blackmail, and who, ironically, is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. The part is taken by Harp McGuire, with Alan White as Dr. Heading, David Eadie as Larry Price, Lyndall Barbour as Mrs. Harding, Grant Taylor as the police officer, and, of course, the , Joker, played by Charles Tinwell.. The Joker plays from all ZB stations at 9.0 p.m. on Tuesdays, starting August 10.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 785, 6 August 1954, Page 17
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186New Deal, Old Deck New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 785, 6 August 1954, Page 17
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