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