Royal54-04-1128When Greek Meets Greek

The National Broadcasting Company presents Transcribe So Lawrence Olivier in Theatre Royal. This is Lawrence Olivier. I've chosen today a story by one of our favourite modern writers in England, Graham Green, which has been adapted to the radio play.

It is, perhaps, a little unexpectedly, and I think delightfully, a comedy. I'm going to play the part of Nicholas Fennec, and so now let me tell you Graham Green's story when Greek meets Greek. This is a story about Oxford University.

Well about Oxford anyhow. And the story takes place during the last war. It takes a war to upset the routine at Oxford. Well at Oxford University, and that's exactly what had happened. In fact, such a thing could never have happened at Oxford except in wartime.

After all, the university has been there a long time. Even New College, which was new in the 1379. As you probably know, nineteen colleges go to make up Oxford University. There's Paleo, Ray's Nose, Harford and Maglin, Lincoln and Queens, Jesus and Oreo and...

well, nineteen other. But one college that's never been at Oxford is St. Ambrose's. At least, there was never a St. Ambrose College at Oxford until the last war. Ah, that would be brisket. Let him in, my dear.

All right, I'm coming. We trust that the enclosed syllabus on the W-spelt syllabus. S-Y-L-A. Looks funny as I'm a... Oh hello, brisket, come in. Come in. Well, how's the college doing? So, damn, bros is blended.

Getting out the syllabus is at this very moment. Come into the common room in neutral no-wall. Put your hat and coat on the sewing machine there. Rather cluttered up, I'm afraid. One of these days we must build, brisket, plan and build, that centambros is worthy of our ideal.