Listener

Once upon a time there was a very small boy who owned a wooden fire-engine, painted blue. That it was blue in no way disturbed the lad. and he went happily about extinguishing his imaginary conflagrations. Then one day, there came into the world of this small chap, a neighbouring fellow who also owned a blue fire-engine. To see, in the hands of another, such an exotic fire-engine, gave our small champion fears and doubts as to the propriety of owning an engine painted blue. With time his dubiosity increased, until it reached the point where he went furtively aside to appear later with his fire-engine painted red.

And so I was interested to see that so shortly after Extravaganza, the Listener radically changed its form of publication. Well done, Fair Laddie.

L.D.B.