Money for Pickle
[N 1751 the Scottish novelist Tobias Smollett published his picaresque chronicle, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. This young man’s success story was immensely popular, and makes lively reading even today. Not an adaptation but, as the author Dick Cross puts it, a "derivation" from it will be broadcast from YC stations next week in an NZBS production. In Cross’s play, Sir Peregrine’s daughter, Sophia, wants to marry a penniless ensign against her father’s wishes. Lady Pickle reminds her husband of the days when he wooed her as a penniless young man himself, and was given the alternative by her guardian of either amassing £20,000 in six months, or giving her up. In the story thus recalled, Peregrine goes up to London, is cheated, then wins a sinecure without paying Lord Swiilpot the bribe he demands. William Austin plays Peregrine; Peter Read, Lord Swillpot, and Davina Whitehouse, Lady Pickle.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 885, 20 July 1956, Page 11
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151Money for Pickle New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 885, 20 July 1956, Page 11
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