THE P RTAL
September 2014
Page 22
Asking for it
Petitionary prayer has many problems ... Antonia Lynn
examines them and finds fewer than we might think.
I
n one
of the scurrilously brilliant Julian and Sandy sketches from the 1960s radio series Round the
Horne, Kenneth Horne visits the Bona Gift Boutique. As he browses the shelves, Hugh Paddickâs character,
Julian, counsels (in a tone which suggests that this is part of his philosophy of life),