This article reveals the cultural history of Walter Greenwood's second novel His Worship the Mayor (1934). It tracks its trajectory from being Love on the Dole's critically acclaimed semi-sequel to a dismissed and subsequently forgotten work. New and extensive archival research uncovers the censorship history of Give Us This Day, the play the novel became. It details how the stage version attracted the attention of the Lord Chamberlain's office before an intervention from the BBC's Director-General in 1952 meant it was never performed again as a radio production. Further, the reasons why the various adaptations of His Worship the Mayor were not deemed as commercially attractive as Love on the Dole are analysed; finally, I argue that Greenwood struggled to find an acceptable mediation between popular appeal and political radicalism.

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“过分关注救济和悲痛”：沃尔特·格林伍德 (Walter Greenwood) 在他崇拜市长的过程中寻找激进分子和大众

本文揭示了沃尔特·格林伍德的第二部小说《市长崇拜》（1934 年）的文化历史。它追踪了它的轨迹，从 Dole 广受好评的半续集的爱情到被解雇并随后被遗忘的作品。新的和广泛的档案研究揭示了给我们这一天的审查历史，小说变成了戏剧。它详细说明了舞台版本如何在 1952 年英国广播公司总干事干预之前引起了内务大臣办公室的注意，这意味着它再也没有作为广播作品演出过。此外，分析了为什么他的市长崇拜的各种改编没有被认为像多尔之恋那样具有商业吸引力的原因；最后，我认为格林伍德努力在大众诉求和政治激进主义之间找到可接受的调解方式。