Mr. Micawber Turns Up
LISTEN weekly to Theatre Royal in the expectation that something will turn up, and this week something didtr. Micawber, in fact. I found the programme of excerpts from David Copperfield wholly delightful. Mr. Micawber is a particularly juicy radio character, and comes complete with catch-phrases, so that listeners trained to TIFH and ITMA find their laughter ready when they hear such staples as "income twenty
pounds-."’ Nor would Dickens himself have been disconcerted by Mr. Towers’s penchant for largeness in effects since it matches up admirably with Dickens larger-than-life characterisation. Production and material were so well matched that the programme had felicity as well as the expected humanity.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 801, 26 November 1954, Page 11
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112Mr. Micawber Turns Up New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 801, 26 November 1954, Page 11
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