Sunday Showease Plays
PLAYS-one from the NZBS studios, the other from the BBC-will occupy ZB Sunday Showcase : this coming. weekend (October 20) and on October 27. This Sunday listeners will hear The Creedy Case (NZBS), a drama set in wartime London with Roy Leywood, Dorothy McKegg and Alan Jervis in the principal roles. George Scoresby (Alan Jervis) is in trouble for refusing to post a certain Captain Creedy away from secret research work (Creedy is accused of’ sending information to Russia), and Brigadier Maltby (Roy Leywood) investigates the case at the request of George’s wife. Maltby’s investigations ‘disclose a tangle of conscience and duty, personal conflicts and wartime official callousness. . The Browning Version (October 27) was adapted for the BBC by Cynthia Pughe from Terence Rattigan’s famous play. It is the story of an ageing clas-
sics. master, Andrew Crocker-Harris (Robert Harris), who is obliged to retire without a pension from the school he has served for 18 years. He is a grim-lipped’ man, suspicious even of well-meant laughter at his own jokesin strong contrast with the popular, easy-going science master (Peter Neil) who, for some time, has had Mrs Crocker-Harris (Belle. Chrystall) as his mistress. Crocker-Harris is well aware that he is disliked and feared by his pupils, yet he is nonetheless shocked to hear hime % self described as "The Himmler of the Lower Fifth." But in the humiliation of his last days at ‘school one of his pupils (Brian Smith) brings him a parting gift, a copy of The Agamemnon in the Robert Browning translation. This simple act of kindness gives CrockerHarris an upsurge of self-respect and enables him to begin his rehabilitation,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 949, 18 October 1957, Page 23
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275Sunday Showease Plays New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 949, 18 October 1957, Page 23
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