(A floodlit boxing ring. Sports programme music.)
SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'BOXING TONIGHT'
Voice Over: 'Boxing Tonight' comes from the Empire Pool,
Wembley and features the main heavyweight bout between Jack
Bodell, British and Empire Heavyweight Champion. (cheers; shot of
Bodell in his comer with two seconds) And Sir
Kenneth Clark ... (shot of Clark's corner; he is in a dressing-gown
with 'Sir Kenneth Clark' on the back; both take off their'dressing-gowns
as referee calls them together; Sir Kenneth is wearing a tweed suit
underneath) It's the first time these two have met so there should be
some real action tonight...
(The bell goes. Crowd noise. Sir Kenneth wanders around as in 'Civilization '.)
Sir Kenneth: This then is the height of the English
Renaissance, the triumph of Classical over Gothic ... the ...
(Bodell swing a left and knocks Sir Kenneth down.)
Voice Over: He's down! Sir Kenneth Clark is down in eight seconds.
But he's up again. He's up at six...
Sir Kenneth: The almost ordered facades of Palladio's villas reflects the...
(Boddell knocks him down again.)
Voice Over: And he's down again, and I don't think he's going to get up
this time. (referee counts Sir Kenneth Clark out and holds up BodeIll
hand) No, so Jack Bodell has defeated Sir Kenneth Clark in the
very first round here tonight and so this big Lincolnshire
heavyweight becomes the new Oxford Professor of Fine Art.
(Zoom in to the ring. The announcer appears in DJ and takes a mike
lowered on a wire.)
Announcer: Thank you, thank you, thank you, ladies and
genfiemen. And now...
(Cut to a corner of the ring. The nude organist at his organ, plays a
chord, turns and grins. Cut to the opposite corner; the 'lt's' man on his
stool.)
It's Man: It's...
(Animated introduction to show)
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