To Strangle a Parrot
adapted by Anthony Keary
from 'The Adventure of the Kind Mr Smith' in the collection 'The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol' (1912) by William John Locke
Broadcast on Tuesday 5th July 1994, Thirty Minute Theatre
160/44; 33.8 MB; sound quality good
When his unusual teaching methods him thrown out of his job as French master at a girls' school, Aristide Pujol seems to be down on his luck. But, for someone with a sense of romance like M Pujol, the bleakest situation can turn into an adventure.
with Yves Aubert, Rachel Atkins, and Frances Jeater.
THE AUTHOR
William John Locke (20 March 1863 Ð 15 May 1930) was a novelist and playwright, born in Cunningsbury St George, Christ Church, Demerara, British Guyana. At the age of 3, W J Locke, was sent to England for further education. He remained in England for nine years, before returning to Trinidad to attend prep school with his brother. He returned to England in 1881 to attend Cambridge University, where he graduated with honours in Mathematics in 1884, despite his dislike of that 'utterly futile and inhuman subject'. After leaving Cambridge, Locke became a schoolmaster in England, although he disliked teaching. In 1894 he published his first novel, At the Gate of Samaria, but he did not achieve real success for another decade. He produced a long series of novels and plays which with "their charmingly written sentimental themes" had much success in both Britain and America.
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