Radio 4's creaking Show Boat is hardly a classic

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  • Author(s): Gillian Reynolds
  • Source:
    Daily Telegraph (London). 02/22/2011, p30-30. 1.
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    • Abstract:
      Show Boat (Radio 4, Sunday) is the new Classic Serial. You could probably sue it under the Trades Descriptions Act for the first word in that subtitle. Classic? Is it really up there on the nation's bookshelf next to Great Expectations, Middlemarch and Huckleberry Finn? I doubt it. Oh, stop being pompous Gillian. Radio 4 listeners know this strand exists to broaden the range of what we think of as classic, bringing us Iris Murdoch as well as Balzac, Austen and Lampedusa. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]