Roadhouse Returns
[AST year’s reports that Radio Roadhouse was to cease as Barry Linehan departed for pastures new have fortunately proved to be premature. The first show of the new series came with something of the familiar glow of expectation that. a new season of TIFH
(C) Punch used to arouse. On the whole, the programme justified the widespread impression that Radio Roadhouse is the most acceptable and durable radio comedy feature ever dreamed up in this country. There were some weaknesses. I felt that one falsetto voice would have been more than enough, without three, that Barry Linehan sounded a trifle jaded, and with an American overtone I hadn’t heard before, and that the timing wasn’t always crisp. But these roughnesses, I am sure, will soon be smoothed away. The opening script showed advances over earlier ones-an integrating idea rather than a series of short bits, and more sharply realised characterisation. And the Dad and Hori interlude-for many, the gem of RRwas a real delight. The only thing that puzzles me is that the NZBS hasn’t yet got round to the idea of a repeat weekly at a more comfortable time than late on Wednesdays.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 934, 5 July 1957, Page 8
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196Roadhouse Returns New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 934, 5 July 1957, Page 8
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