Vintage Priestley
HERE is alleged to be a Chinese proverb: "One picture is worth ten thousand words," although I suspect that the saying ‘is the invention of an Ameri-
can TV publicity agency. However, it isn’t very far from the truth. In listening with great enjoyment to 1YA’s Friday evening serial The Good Companions, I find that, although I read the book before seeing the film, and again some time afterwards, I still identify the main characters with their screen equivalents. Despite the radio presence of Wilfred Pickles that most ingratiating of commentators, Jess Oakroyd is Edmund Gwenn, Susie Dean is Jessie Mathews, and Inigo Jolifant is John Gielgud. Perhaps this is only because the radio version catches, as did the film, the happy spirit of Priestley’s book. The story wears surprisingly well, and I don’t believe that J.B. has ever recaptured its good-natured vivacity and cheerful humanism. Stereotypes the characters may be, and some of the situations obvious, but it has, I do believe, more of the real stuff of life in it than some of the very clever Third Programme things we listen to with respect-
ful awe.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 14
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192Vintage Priestley New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 14
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