★ by Charles Dickens
1, ' The Drive to Rochester'
A serial reading by V. C. Clinton -
Baddeley
Here is the first of a new series of readings in which the inimitable adventures of the one and only Pickwick Club will be followed during forthcoming weeks.
V. C. Clinton-Baddeley has gone to pains to select the ripest and liveliest incidents from the posthumous papers of the Club, and presents the first of these this afternoon.
Today you will hear of the formation of the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club, and of the memorable journey to Rochester of Samuel Pickwick , Tracy Tupman , Augustus Snodgrass , and Nathaniel Winkle , together with the loquacious stranger who accompanied them. You will hear what they talked about on the way, and how Mr. Tupinan's susceptible heart was stirred by one of the stranger's stories.