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BBC Radio: McKellen, The Awakening, The Marriage of Figaro (play)

Posted by:	TimDunleavy 03:38 pm EDT 08/17/14

Descriptions are taken from the BBC Radio Drama and BBC Radio 4 Extra newsletters, and from the individual web pages. ===== Two original plays about scientists for you this week. Alexander Graham Bell takes babysteps towards inventing the telephone in The Vicar, the Automaton and the Talking Dog by Lavinia Murray, and Margaret Thatcher (or Roberts as she was) arrives at Somerville College to be taught by Nobel Laureate Dorothy Hodgkin. The Chemistry Between Them by Adam Ganz imagines some tutorials in these student years and then a reunion for the two women at Chequers in 1983. Will Margaret be as biddable about nuclear disarmament as she was about her chemistry studies? ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076m8m Andy Rashleigh - Be Prepared 4 Extra Debut One of the key figures of the early 20th century, Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement, looks back upon a life embodying the spirit of Imperial adventure. With Sir Ian McKellen and Zoe Waites. From 2004. Thursday at 11.15am ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pr3vn Agatha Christie - Towards Zero 1 - 4/4 4 Extra Debut Against her better judgment, Lady Tresselian permits dashing Nevile Strange and his wife to come to her house party at the same time as his ex-wife, with disastrous results. With Hugh Bonneville and Marcia Warren. From 2010. Tuesday to Friday at 6am, 1pm and 8pm ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wlj9b Drama on 3 The Marriage of Figaro Duration: 2 hours First broadcast: Sunday 26 December 2010 A rare chance to hear the original play that inspired Mozart's now more famous opera. Written by French writer Beaumarchais, and considered too dangerous to perform in its own time. Bristling with social and political conflict, behind the comic intrigues of da Ponte's libretto lies a drama that is edgy, political, dealing with class and stroppy servants sensing the smell of Revolution in the air. The author, Beaumarchais, led a life as colourful as the world of his plays. At the height of the French Revolution, as he had been a royal servant, he was brought before the Revolutionary council. His life was spared when he declared in his defence that he was the creator of Figaro. This character epitomised the underdog striving to be free and was hugely popular with the revolutionaries. Napoleon realised its power when he declared it to be 'the Revolution in action'. Figaro ..... Rupert Degas Count ..... Nicholas Rowe Suzanne ..... Joannah Tincey Countess ..... Clare Wille Antonio/Double-Main ..... Sean Barrett Marceline ..... Frances Jeater Bazile/Pedrillo ..... Hugh Dickson Brid'oison ..... Stephen Thorne Bartholo ..... Anton Lesser Fanchette ..... Gina Bramhill Cherubin/Gripe-Soleil ..... Charlie Morton. Sun 17 Aug 2014 21:40 BBC Radio 3 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dmxwj Afternoon Drama The Chemistry Between Them Duration: 45 minutes By Adam Ganz. It's 1983 and Margaret Thatcher is awaiting her former college tutor, Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin. However the visit will put their friendship to the test as Dorothy has a request that challenges Thatcher's political policies. The Writer ADAM GANZ is Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting at Royal Holloway University of London. After leaving university Adam worked in a hostel for ex-prisoners before researching Oral History documentaries for Channel 4. He then studied Radio, Film & TV at Bristol University (winning a Fuji Film award) followed by the National Film & TV School directing course. He went on to combine writing and directing for film and TV with teaching and researching narrative and new media as well as working as a consultant for Working Title and Theatre de Complicite. His first radio drama, Listening to the Generals, was 'pick of the day' in several national newspapers and was the basis for a successful application to the Heritage Lottery Fund. His second, Nuclear Reactions, about the German scientists held at Farm Hall was repeated in September 2012. His last radio play, The Gestapo Minutes, was based on personal family history and was short-listed for an Audio Drama Award in 2013 (produced by Catherine Bailey Productions for Radio 4). Margaret Thatcher ... Catherine Skinner Dorothy Hodgkin ... Jane Slavin Alf Roberts ... Stephen Critchlow Thomas Hodgkin ... Damian Lynch JD Bernal ... David Cann Pat ... Georgie Fuller Wed 20 Aug 2014 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dqngp Afternoon Drama The Man Inside the Radio Is My Dad Duration: 44 minutes Charlie Brooks, Janine in EastEnders, stars in Louise Monaghan's play. Is Mum telling Chloe the truth about the absence of her Dad or is she holding something back? Chloe's classmates played by Year 3 children from Pickhurst Junior Academy School. The Writer: Louise Monaghan has written one play for radio: Alone In The Garden With You. She won the Papatango Award in 2012 for her play Pack, and was a finalist for the Bruntwood Prize in the same year. Thu 21 Aug 2014 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dk864 15 Minute Drama The Awakening Episode 1 of 5 by Kate Chopin, dramatised by Janice Okoh Holidaying on Grand Isle in 1899, Edna Pontellier feels she is living in a dream, so the attentions of the dashing young Robert Lebrun serve merely to amuse her. When it was published in 1899, Kate Chopin's novel shocked society and divided critics. Respectable, married Edna Pontellier, 28, is away from her home in New Orleans, holidaying on Grand Isle in the Gulf of Mexico with her husband and children. Teaching her to swim is the debonair young Robert Lebrun, known for forming an attachment with a different woman every summer. Despite warnings from her more conventional friend, Adele, Edna falls incontrovertibly for Robert. When he leaves Louisiana for Mexico, Edna realises she's been "awakened" and questions everything: her marriage, her position, the society she lives in. But what is left for her? The novel is regarded by many as the first in a new wave of modern American literature. Edna Pontellier ... Pippa Bennett-Warner Leonce Pontellier ... Guy Paul Celestine ... Petra Letang Robert Lebrun ... PJ Brennan Adele Ratignolle ... Sasha Pick Madame LeBrun ... Adjoa Andoh Mon 18 Aug 2014 10:45 BBC Radio 4 FM only Mon 18 Aug 2014 19:45 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dh091 Saturday Drama Murder Under Trust: The Massacre at Glencoe Duration: 1 hour In 1692 soldiers billeted in the homes of the MacDonald clan in Glencoe rose up and killed their hosts. Was this Highland massacre the inevitable outcome of a long-standing clan feud? Or were there other factors behind this infamous betrayal? Adrian Bean's play - based on the contemporary parliamentary Commission Of Enquiry into the massacre and on historian John Prebble's seminal book, Glencoe - dramatises these tragic 17th century events. Narrator ... Tamara Kennedy Marquis of Tweeddale ... John Buick Colonel Hill ... Brian Pettifer Lt Col Hamilton ... Jordan Young Laird of Glenlyon ... Matthew Zajac Alasdair MacIain ... Paul Young Lt Lindsay ... Martin McBride Eiblin MacDonald ... Julie Duncanson Duncan Campbell ... Iain Robertson Helen MacDonald ... Anne Lacey Neil McDonald ... Stewart Campbell Sat 16 Aug 2014 14:30 BBC Radio 4 FM only ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dk880 Afternoon Drama The Vicar, the Automaton and the Talking Dog Duration: 45 minutes by Lavinia Murray Using a mixture of fact and fantasy, this is an extraordinary day in the life of Alexander Graham Bell as a child, where we discover the roots of his genius, and how his mother's impending deafness helped lead him to his invention of the telephone. Aleck, with the help of his friend and brother, made an automaton that could say 'Mama' and further, he manipulated his dog's throat and mouth so he indeed had a talking dog. Aleck ... John Bell Ben ... Keir Beckwith Rev McReady ... Stuart McQuarrie Father ... Seamus O'Neill Voice of the Automaton ... Seamus O'Neill Trouve ... Seamus O'Neill Mother ... Morag Siller Melville ...Stephen Fletcher Mon 18 Aug 2014 14:15 BBC Radio 4 FM only ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010dp0v Afternoon Drama The Sensitive Episode 5 of 11 A Casualty of War Duration: 45 minutes First broadcast: Tuesday 19 April 2011 A woman missing since 1945 is seen in a deserted guest house. Glasgow's psychic detective investigates. Atmospheric thriller by Alastair Jessiman. Thomas ... Robin Laing Mrs Soutar ... Sheila Donald Kat ... Julie Duncanson Jack ... Paul Young Mrs Forbes-Brown ... Edith MacArthur Tue 19 Aug 2014 14:15 BBC Radio 4 FM only ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r3docs Podcast The Radio 3 Documentary Billy - The Other Lloyd-Webber William Lloyd Webber, OBE, was a virtuoso organist, gifted teacher and accomplished administrator. But above all else he wanted to be a composer, and at the end of his life he was to rue missed opportunities at the same time as he saw his two sons - composer Andrew and 'cellist Julian - fulfil their own musical dreams. In this programme marking the centenary of William Lloyd Webber's birth, writer and broadcaster Andrew Green explores why the dream shattered - but also re-examines the passionate, romantic music Lloyd Webber left behind. Also available on iTunes. ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ptw Podcast Drama of the Week How To Say Goodbye Properly Funny and moving drama about growing up in the army, by exciting new writer E V Crowe. Lucy's father swears this is their last posting. But he's said that before... Also available on iTunes. =====

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