The Write Stuff
Who was Reginald Molehusband? That was the question I asked the fine ladies and gentlemen of the last night. I had been invited to Prestwick Community Centre to talk to them about radio comedy and drama.
Reginald Molehusband was a character in one of those they used to show on TV way back in the seventies. It was all about reverse parking. Amazing to think that government departments used to devise ways of helping us improve ourselves in this way. Nowadays such films seem designed to nag us and scare us.
I was trying to make a point about an audience's terms of reference. All but one of the students I had been speaking to the previous day had never heard of Reginald. Last night all but three of the Ayr writers were nodding and laughing in recognition.
Of those three, one had the excuse that she wasn't living in Britain in the seventies. The other two...well, I guess they just didn't watch enough telly.
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