by BILL NAUGHTON with Bill Owen
After the first broadcast of Alfie Elkins earlier this month, some of the critics wrote: This was proper radio..... In one of the best bits of acting I have ever heard. Bill Owen juts the man through the words, stabbing the Cockney sentences through endless cigarette butts (Sunday Telegraph). This is, as the title makes plain, a ' little life,' but it was a brilliant radio portrait (Glasgow Herald).
Production by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON