A Pickwick Frolic
ICKWICK PAPERS, over the air, has turned into the wildest and most delightful extravaganza. We started, at the Club itself, with reasonable sobriety, but now we are being whirled across England, and given heady stirrup-cups of life with the Wardles or the Jingles or Fat Boy Jo or some other improbable character who could have played greatuncle to the Marx Brothers. Publishers Chapman and Hall are doing the 1837 equivalent of compering the show, and every so often we are returned to the studio to eavesdrop on some gentleman’s disagreement. (To Mr. Chapman’s plea for the inclusion of the Cricket Match Mr. Hall counters, "Mr. Chapman, it just can’t be done. Only eight episodes, remember. We've got to select.") But I’m finding that even the briefest encounter with a familiar character can, in this vivid and vigorous radio version, light up a sizeable stretch of memory.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 804, 17 December 1954, Page 10
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149A Pickwick Frolic New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 804, 17 December 1954, Page 10
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