Way back when, when families depended on another form of wireless for their entertainment, drama serials were all the rage on BBC radio. One of the favourites was Dick Barton, Special Agent (BBC, 1946), who would constantly end up in terrible scrapes at the end of each episode. Listeners weren’t fooled. No matter how well Barton was tied up or otherwise ensnared by that week’s villain, they knew that at the start of the very next episode, our hero would escape with ease. This gave birth to the satirical line ‘with one bound, he was free . . .
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