to Edgar Lustgarten
(who has added without permission some examples from the master's works)
You have got to control the audience, and they must never control you. You've got to make them laugh, be able to stop them laughing ... They're not to laugh to enjoy themselves. They've got to do what I tell them.'
Producer ALAN BURGESS
This is the first of three conversations. recorded by Noel Coward during a recent visit to London, to be broadcast weekly at this time
(Radio Times People: page 4)