Tailormade

Tailormade is a comedic radio play by Clive Barry, broadcast in Australia in 1953, and popular in its time.

Premise

Our racketeering narrator, Signor Sardonic—a self-confessed "blue-jawed postwar parasite"—meets Australian tourist Mr. Horse—seemingly "a fairly simple sort of cove"—who is driving a London taxi cab up the Adriatic coastline. Together they strike up a conversation with a blonde artist from Switzerland, Anna.

Horse returns as the protagonist of Barry's second and final piece for radio—Key Fee.

Original Cast

• Lionel Stevens as Sardonic
• Sidney Chambers as Horse
• Dinah Shearing as Anna
• Alastair Duncan as Ciccio
• Rod Taylor as Vendor

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