by PHILIP WADE
Listeners may have read ' The Broadcaster's ' comments on this play last week in THE RADIO TIMES when they said it savoured of a Dickens story. The truth of this will be heard this evening. Little Jenny makes a pathetic counterpart of Oliver Twist , old man Steele can be identified with benevolent Mr. Brownlow, and Mr. Grace is every bit as ubiquitously villainous as Fagin.
Philip Wade wrote the play especially for broadcasting. Apart from an adroit use of radio technique with no meaningless ' tricks ', Jenny Meade is remarkable for its characterisation, and the moving but unsentimental treatment of an intricate plot.
Pamela Standish makes her radio drama debut in the name-part.