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Thread #142157   Message #3284536
Posted By: MGM·Lion
04-Jan-12 - 05:10 AM
Thread Name: M. Carthy on The Critics Group - Radio 4
Subject: RE: M. Carthy on The Critics Group - Radio 4
Thanks for your good opinion, Dick.

I have a sort of formula, which I think is my own invention: if someone sez "Why weren't you at so·&·so's party?",

I reply, "Oh, I wouldn't go after the way he insulted me."

"How did he insult you?"

"He didn't invite me."

I fear that Radio 4 'insulted' me thus. But, I repeat, thanks for your good opinion!

Seriously, tho: Martin was an excellent choice IMO, & did a perfectly good job of anchoring what was, as has been mentioned by several as an opinion, rather a thin programme; but I wonder to what extent he was allowed to participate in the selections from the tapes, and whether he wrote or devised his own narration or was required to work from someone else's script. I think we should be told ~ but somehow doubt whether we shall.

~Michael~