(Do you see what I'm doing here?) One would expect a recurring character in light comic fiction to be subject to the law of diminishing returns, and so be accordingly indulgent, but the comic returns here were never that great to begin with. And the thing is this: the writing is not necessarily of the highest order.Īnd so begins the case for the prosecution. After all, a rather good caricature of the face of Leo McKern graces the cover of this selection. A s I closed down iPlayer after once again failing to get through more than a minute of the latest dismal attempt to translate PG Wodehouse on to the screen, I wondered: is it the very quality of the source material that is the problem? I recall few people ever complaining that the TV versions of the Rumpole stories were a disgrace to their source.
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