Smokers Corner/Three by three
July 27th, 2008 by Dan HillI think I’ll keep rolling out the Barrell as long as the ABC keep rolling them out of their archives. Here are two shorter, lighter pieces. ‘Smoker’s Corner’, from the mid-90s, was made as something of a counterpoint to the campaign to ban smoking from public places but is light-hearted and full of characters. Then ‘Three by three’: a more impressionistic piece about trios, triples or thirds - in this case the cricketing position of ‘third man’ (brilliant idea to get a Noo Yoiker to explain the rules of cricket, contrasted with a sonorous Henry Blofeld and the music from the film ‘The Third Man’), the mysterious third eye and the equally mysterious ’70s telly conspiracy known as ‘Alternative 3′.
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