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i "TERENCE RATTIGAN’S The Final Test, of which a BBC production appeared on the YA link, reminded me of stories I used to read long ago, The last man in, 20 rung to get, will Binks Major save the honour of the House? The details were more sophisticated but the emotion was the same. Sam Palmer, once the hero of English cricket, is playing his last test. His 17-year-old son who writes poetry has played hookey from the match because he has a chance to meet the famous poet who is his hero. He finds the famous poet listening to the commentary to follow the
fortunes of Ais hero, Sam Palmer; together they rush to the Oval in time to see him out for a duck. All very cosy, with real cricketers and commentators taking part, all very tear-jerking and (being Rattigan) very neat and in parts very funny. It might appear that I did not enjoy this play. On the contrary, I made an atavistic return to childhood and wallowed in it. And I suspect Rattigan had done the same. |
R. D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 22
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188Back to Childhood (2) New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 22
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