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BBC Radio: John Hurt, Dan Stevens, Jim Norton, Haydn Gwynne, "Silk," a live "Hitchhiker's Guide"

Posted by:	TimDunleavy 10:34 pm EDT 03/28/14

Descriptions are taken from the Radio Drama newsletter, the Radio 4 Extra newsletter, and the individual web pages. Most programs are available for listening on their web pages for 7 days after broadcast. ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zdbrg A Tale of Two Theatres Duration: 30 minutes Mehmet Ergen is best known to UK theatre audiences as Artistic Director of London's Arcola Theatre. In this programme we learn that his pioneering work in Hackney is only half the story. We follow him to his Turkish homeland, post Gezi Park and post Arab Spring, caught between the Syrian conflict and EU aspirations; an emerging economy with freedom of speech still in jeopardy. An Istanbul-born former DJ, Mehmet became the toast of London's theatre scene by creating venues- and careers- from scratch. In 2000 he transformed a derelict clothing factory in Dalston into a destination venue, twice recognised by the Peter Brook Empty Space Award. Not content to run 'a powerhouse of new work' (in the words of theatre critic Susannah Clapp) in his adopted city, he later opened its opposite number back in his hometown. Tensions have been rising in Turkey between artists and politicians ever since the Prime Minister's daughter was mocked on stage, allegedly for wearing a headscarf to the Ankara State Theatre in 2011. In 2012, a performance of Chilean play Secret Obscenities was censored by Istanbul's Mayor Kadir Topbas. Prime Minister Erdogan then threatened to withdraw subsidies of up to 140 million Turkish Lira from approximately 50 venues, employing roughly 1500 actors, directors and technicians. Although wholesale privatisation has yet to be enacted, theatre companies openly opposed to Government tactics during 2013's Gezi Park protests promptly had their funding withdrawn. Entrepreneurial expat Mehmet Ergen acts as our guide to this politically charged arts scene, as he negotiates national and cultural borders to stage work that is as unpretentious as it is provocative. Thu 3 Apr 2014 11:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zb49y Soul Music Series 18 Episode 1 of 3 Rhapsody in Blue Duration: 30 minutes "I'm convinced it's the best thing ever written and recorded in the history of things written and recorded" - Moby. Rhapsody in Blue was first heard exactly 90 years ago when it premiered on February 12, 1924, in New York's Aeolian Hall. Through its use at the opening of Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' it has become synonymous with the city that inspired its creation. But for people around the world, George Gershwin's "experiment in modern music" has become imbued with the most personal of memories. LA based screen writer Charles Peacock reflects on how this piece has become entwined with his life and how, on an evening at the Hollywood Bowl this music "healed him". When Adela Galasiu was growing up in communist Romania, Rhapsody in Blue represented "life itself, as seen through the eyes of an optimist". For world speed champion Gina Campbell, the opening of that piece will forever remind her of the roar of the Bluebird's ignition as it flew through the "glass like stillness of the water" and brings back the memories of her father, the legendary Donald Campbell - it was played at his funeral when he was finally laid to rest decades after his fatal record attempt on Coniston Lake. Featuring interviews with Professor of Music Howard Pollock and musician Moby. Tue 1 Apr 2014 11:30 BBC Radio 4 Sat 5 Apr 2014 15:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xky8s The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes Some of the most enduring characters ever created for radio will be heard in a special, live broadcast from London's BBC Radio Theatre, as part of Character Invasion. The two-headed smooth-talking alien Zaphod Beeblebrox, bemused Earthling Arthur Dent, and Marvin the Paranoid Android will relive some of their adventures, with a very special appearance by the original producer John Lloyd as The Voice of the Book. Adapted and Directed by Dirk Maggs Arthur Dent ... Simon Jones Zaphod Beeblebrox ... Mark Wing-Davey Marvin the Paranoid Android ... Stephen Moore Trillian ... Sue Sheridan Ford Prefect ... Geoffrey McGivern The Voice of the Book ... John Lloyd Sat 29 Mar 2014 10:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xtvdp Classic Serial The Divine Comedy Episode 1 of 3 Inferno Duration: 58 minutes Blake Ritson, David Warner and John Hurt star in Stephen Wyatt's dramatisation of Dante's epic poem - the story of one man's incredible journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ché la diritta via era smarrita. In Episode 1: Inferno, the thirty-five year old Dante (Blake Ritson) finds himself in the middle of a dark wood, in extreme personal and spiritual crisis. But hope of rescue appears in the form of the venerable poet Virgil (David Warner), now a shade himself, who offers to lead Dante on an odyssey through the afterlife, that begins in the terrifying depths of Hell. Many years later, the older Dante (John Hurt), still in enforced exile from his beloved Florence, attempts to finish his great poem and reflects on the events that have led him to its writing. Sun 30 Mar 2014 15:00 BBC Radio 4 Sat 5 Apr 2014 21:00 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zb4b4 Afternoon Drama Silk: The Clerks' Room Episode 1 of 3 Jake Duration: 45 minutes By Mick Collins Jake thinks that barristers' clerks and Italian-American gangsters are cut from the same cloth. They both demand loyalty, run people's lives and if you want your business to survive, you have to pay them a chunk of your earnings. In the first part of a series on based on the TV drama Silk, Jake inadvertantly continues the analogy, when he finds himself in the firing line after double-crossing Head Clerk Billy. Based on the BBC1 series Silk created by Peter Moffat. As the third series of BBC1's Silk concludes, BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama picks up the reins and broadcasts three plays that focus on life in the Clerks' Room at the Shoe Lane chambers. As Head Clerk Billy Lamb (Neil Stuke) would have it known, the Clerks' Room is the epicentre of everything that happens in a successful set of chambers like Shoe Lane. Barristers' clerks act as their agents; they get the cases, distribute the work, and can make or break careers. To some, they're a gang of wide-boys with an inflated sense of their own importance. To others, they're an essential pillar that dates back to the beginnings of the Inns of Court. Now, as modern management supersedes tradition, their livelihoods may be under threat, and our drama reflects this through the ongoing battle between Head Clerk Billy Lamb and Practice Manager Harriet Hammond (Miranda Raison). The three radio dramas centre around life in the Clerks' Room, and each play focuses on the professional tribulations of the three Junior Clerks; Jake, Bethany and John. The dramas feature the same core cast and characters from the TV show's Clerks' Room: Neil Stuke, Miranda Raison, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Amy Wren. Guest appearances from Charles Edwards, Anthony Welsh, Jeany Spark, Flaminia Cinque and others. The television show Silk is created by Peter Moffat, and the writers of the radio dramas are Mick Collins and Janice Okoh. Jake ... Theo Barklem-Biggs Billy ... Neil Stuke Amy ... Jessica Henwick John ... John MacMillan Bethany ... Amy Wren Chris ... Anthony Welsh Jury Forewoman ... Carolyn Pickles Tannoy ... Priyanga Burford Tue 1 Apr 2014 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0156nfx Afternoon Drama Portrait of Winston Duration: 45 minutes First broadcast: Tuesday 13 September 2011 By Jonathan Smith. Dan Stevens and Benjamin Whitrow star in an entertaining drama about a portrait of Winston Churchill by leading British artist Graham Sutherland. For his 80th birthday on 30th November 1954, an all-party committee of MPs decided to present Churchill, still the Prime Minister, with a portrait of himself. It was to be Churchill's for his lifetime but then to hang in the House of Commons. The commission was given to Graham Sutherland, aged 51, then at the height of his fame. It was a painting which was to prove highly controversial. "A Portrait Of Winston" is a follow-up to Jonathan Smith's previous Radio 4 play about Winston Churchill, "The Last Bark Of the Bulldog" which dealt with Churchill's stroke in 1953 while he was still Prime Minister. "The Last Bark Of the Bulldog" - which also starred Benjamin Whitrow as Churchill - was first broadcast in 2003. Jonathan Smith is a former Head of English at Tonbridge School in Kent. He has written many radio plays over the years, including two series of plays about a headmaster, "The Head Man". His most recent plays for Radio 4 are "The Trenches Trip" (2010) and "The Tennis Court" (2008). His latest book, "The Following Game" was published recently. Fri 4 Apr 2014 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03z9jr8 Drama on 3 The Boy at the Back Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes By Juan Mayorga. A psychological drama from one of Spain's most renowned contemporary writers. When 17-year-old Claudio insinuates himself into a classmate's house and begins to write about it as homework, his literary voyeurism soon spirals out of control. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, class teacher German is reminded of his own abandoned literary pretensions. Despite his wife's misgivings, he encourages Claudio's artistic ambitions. However, the boy's incursion into the domestic intimacy of his subjects will have unpredictable consequences for both households. An exploration of the voyeuristic nature of fiction, the exercise of power and the ambiguity at the heart of human relations. Juan Mayorga's work has been translated into over twenty-five languages and performed all around the world. He has won numerous prizes including the Spanish National Theatre Award and the Valle-Inclan Prize, and is a five-time winner of a "Max" (Spanish equivalent of an Olivier Award). German ..... Neil Pearson Juana ..... Haydn Gwynne Claudio ..... Will Howard Ester ..... Juliet Aubrey Rafa Father ..... David Birrell Rafa Son ..... Max Bowden Sun 30 Mar 2014 22:00 BBC Radio 3 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01694p2 Friday Drama Recordings Recovered from the House of Leaves Duration: 58 minutes First broadcast: Friday 28 October 2011 Adapted by Mike Walker. "The Navidson Record now stands as part of this country's cultural experience and yet, in spite of the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have seen it, the film continues to remain an enigma. Some insist it must be true, others believe it is a trick on a par with the Orson Welles radio romp The War of the Worlds. Many more have never even heard of it." With these words Zampano preludes the excerpts from an extraordinary film, cut together by Will Navidson from cameras located within his house and those he took with him into the labyrinth that had sprung up there over the course of a few days. According to the Navidson record, it was when the family returned to the house from a trip to Seattle that they first discovered the additional door and the space behind it. Will Navidson, celebrated adventure photographer, was intrigued, his partner Karen insisted that the door be permanently locked. But one night after a row, Navidson opened the door and went in. He found rooms beyond rooms, all windowless, all unlit, and only narrowly escaped becoming lost forever in the labyrinth. Not long afterwards the spiral staircase appeared, corkscrewing downwards to a dark infinity. So Navidson equipped his brother Tom and others for an expedition, as if they were embarking on a quest into some architectural jungle. The cameras rolled and they descended, and here's the audio. House of Leaves is the remarkable cult novel by Mark Z Danielewsky, a labyrinth of its own kind with its multiple interwoven narratives and textual tricks. This dramatic piece re-imagines the terrifying heart of the story. Zampano ... Jim Norton Navidson ... William Hope Karen ... Debora Weston Tom Navidson ... Martin McDougall Jed Leeder ... Jeff Mash Holloway ... Richard Ridings Reston ... Vinta Morgan Daisy ... Eleanor Blaney Sat 29 Mar 2014 21:00 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013qzpj Afternoon Drama The Lighthouse Duration: 45 minutes First broadcast: Thursday 01 September 2011 By Alan Harris. It's 1801 and Lighthouse keepers Howell and Griffith are posted to 6 weeks on the Smalls - a desolate rock 20 miles off the Pembrokeshire coast. But the two men share a past. Because of what happens next, lighthouses would never again have only a crew of two. Based on a true story. Howell ... Paul Rhys Griffith ... Ifan Huw Dafydd Thu 3 Apr 2014 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008zbxx Friday Drama The Heroic Pursuits of Darleen Fyles Duration: 1 hour First broadcast: Friday 22 February 2008 Esther Wilson's drama is inspired by a true story. Darleen is a young woman with learning difficulties who has become obsessed with the emergency services and who occasionally sets fire to things. Helen is a volunteer helper trying to help Darleen to rebuild her life, but she too has her own secret reasons for volunteering. Darleen ... Donna Lavin Helen ... Claire Rushbrook Jamie ... Edmund Davis Treena ... Siobhan Finneran Tony ... Craig Cheetham Will ...Craig Cheetham PC ... Craig Cheetham Nurse ... Sue Kelly Sat 29 Mar 2014 14:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zby8c Afternoon Drama The Great British Bridge Scandal Duration: 45 minutes By Deborah Davis It is 1965, at the World Bridge Championships in Buenos Aires, and the American team believe they have cracked a code. Could it be true that two British players are guilty of cheating? Terence Reese ..... Nick Waring Boris Schapiro ..... Stephen Critchlow Dorothy Hayden ..... Laurel Lefkow Ralph Swimer ..... Clive Hayward Leonard Caplan ..... David Cann Sir John Foster ..... Michael Bertenshaw Simon Goldblatt ..... Jot Davies Deborah Davis, a qualified lawyer and freelance journalist, has written five plays for Radio 4 and a stage play, Court Pastoral, selected for the International Playwriting Festival. Her radio drama, Balance of Power, was selected for the Brit List in 2009 coming in joint 4th place. The script is now in film development. Wed 2 Apr 2014 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03z91x8 Afternoon Drama Chiwawa Duration: 45 minutes by Melissa Murray When a writer is discovered to have written scathing reviews of his rivals' work his wife persuades their young assistant to take the blame - with unexpected consequences. Writers have historically attacked their rivals' work - sometimes their friends' work - via anonymous reviews. But the internet has taken the practice to a whole level. Serious reputable people have been found guilty of slating fellow writers' work, or writing grotesquely self-praising pieces, and publishing these remarks in some very public places. And they are just the ones who got caught... Jane ... Pippa Nixon Monica ... Fenella Woolgar Gordon ... Michael Bertenshaw Bea ... Cassie Layton Mum ... Elaine Claxton John ... Clive Hayward Steph ... Heather Craney Mon 31 Mar 2014 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03z9jr0 Words and Music Below the Surface Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes Poems, prose and music exploring what lies below the surface from the Underworld to the world of the coal miner and the depths of the sea. With poetry and prose by Shakespeare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Mimi Khalvati and Louise Glück and music by Purcell, Gluck, Steve Reich and Takemitsu and Amy X. Neuburg. Readings by Juliet Stevenson and Alex Jennings. Sun 30 Mar 2014 17:30 BBC Radio 3 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03z9j9q Book at Bedtime Unexploded Episode 1 of 10 Duration: 15 minutes A tale of love, art and prejudice set in wartime Brighton. "Fear was an infection - airborne, seaborne - rolling in off the Channel, and although no one spoke of it, no one was immune to it. Fifty miles of water was a slim moat to an enemy that had taken five countries in two months, and Brighton, regrettably, had for centuries been hailed as an excellent place to land." In May 1940, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their Philip, anxiously await news of invasion on the beaches of Brighton. Geoffrey, a banker, becomes Superintendent of the internment camp on the edge of town while Evelyn is gripped first by fear and then quiet but growing desperation. A discovery widens a fault-line in family life. Episode 1: With Brighton braced for an imminent invasion on its beaches, Geoffrey comes home with some shattering news. Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her story 'Solo, A Capella', about the Tottenham riots, featured in the Radio 4 series 'Where Were You ...' in 2012. Her previous works include The Changeling and The Wave Theory of Angels. Unexploded was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2013. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester. Reader: Emma Fielding Mon 31 Mar 2014 22:45 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03yqrhy Book of the Week The Unexpected Professor Episode 1 of 5 Duration: 15 minutes From Biggles to bee-keeping, John Carey threads together the chapters of his life in books - taking in politics, social history and the skirmishes of academia along the way. Vignettes of pre-war Hammersmith and Barnes accompany affectionate accounts of Saturday jobs which he was expected to do to compensate the household for staying on at school. The book is also partly a tribute to the grammar school system. He skewers the snobbishness of Oxford in the 50s but also gives us endearing portraits of the writers and scholars he met and was taught by - including Graves, Larkin and Heaney. Later in his life, his politics and his sometimes controversial cultural criticism take centre stage, producing a commentator who is not afraid to move between genres and labels, always saying something refreshing and frequently unexpected. Episode 1 Family fortunes had dwindled into a genteel memory of former wealth by the time the young Carey was born in pre-war south London. Read by Nicholas Farrell Mon 31 Mar 2014 09:45 BBC Radio 4 FM only Tue 1 Apr 2014 00:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03z91x0 15 Minute Drama Soloparentpals.com Episode 1 of 5 I Do Like to B and B SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern With their wedding imminent and a nascent B and B business things should be looking up for singleparents Rosie and Tom. Rosie ... Liz White Tom ... Julian Rhind-Tutt Tash ... Karina Jones Rugby Ryan ... David Seddon Ginny ... Priyanga Burford Mon 31 Mar 2014 10:45 BBC Radio 4 Mon 31 Mar 2014 19:45 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ptw Podcast Drama of the Week: Hamlet episode 1 As part of Character Invasion a new production of the play was broadcast in 5 episodes across each afternoon last week. Starring Jamie Parker and Paul Hilton. =====

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