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BBC Radio: Kafka x7, plus "Rock and Doris and Elizabeth"

Posted by:	TimDunleavy 11:53 am EDT 05/10/15

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 at least 7 days after broadcast. ===== Saturday 9th May - Friday 15th May You only have to visit Prague once to get a glimpse of what inspired Franz Kafka. His claustrophobic, sinister and darkly comic worldview is celebrated in a series of programmes this week. A new dramatization of The Castle stars Dominic Rowan and Mark Benton experiencing the definition of a bureaucratic nightmare. Mark Ravenhill updates The Trial under the title The Process and finds contemporary life fits that of the original remarkably easily. And five different writers consider what Kafka means for them in The Essay: In the Shadow of Kafka, beginning with Margaret Atwood. ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tkllm 15 Minute Drama Lunch Episode 1 of 5 The Old 5:2 by Marcy Kahan Award winning comedy about two old flatmates, Bill and Bella, who meet once a month for lunch and talk about everything except how much they love each other. After a Summer which saw economist Bill retreat to Connecticut to stop his son dealing drugs he is back in London and eager to catch up with Bohemian Bella. Stephen Mangan can currently be seen at The National Theatre in 'Rules For Living' and is about to be in Season 4 of Episodes. Claire Skinner is best known for 'Outnumbered' she can currently be seen at The Tricycle in 'The Father' with Ken Cranham and has recently appeared on our TV's in 'Critical' and 'Inside Number 9'. Marcy Kahan is a British playwright and radio dramatist, who is half-Canadian and half-American. She is a prolific author of urbane comedies for the BBC including Incredibly Guilty and Twenty Cigarettes. Tomorrow 10:45 BBC Radio 4 Tomorrow 19:45 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tkllp Drags to Riches The British drag scene has moved from working men's clubs to lucrative mainstream. Kim Normanton meets three very different drag entrepreneurs, and presents an entertaining and moving portrait of a booming industry. She talks to the men behind the wigs and lashes and explores questions about gender identity in modern Britain. 28 minutes Tomorrow 11:00 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nb1rx Afternoon Drama Rock and Doris and Elizabeth On the 15th July 1985 Rock Hudson appeared at a press call on the first day of filming for the TV show Doris Day's Best Friends as a favour to his old friend. His ravaged appearance shocked the world. At the same time another old friend, Elizabeth Taylor, was beginning a crusade to raise awareness of the little-understood AIDS. Tracy Ann Oberman's new play is inspired by these events, imagining how they might have played out and exploring the relationships between Hollywood icons - the professional virgin, the all American man and the woman condemned as an "erotic vagrant" by the Pope. It marks the end of one Hollywood era and the start of another, presenting a vivid snapshot of stardom and sexuality, love and loss. 45 minutes Rock Hudson ... Jonathan Hyde Doris Day ... Frances Barber Elizabeth Taylor ... Tracy-Ann Oberman Terry Melcher ... James Lance Reporter ... Jonathan Hart Tue 12 May 2015 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b041v063 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 The Guts Twenty six years on and we are back in Dublin with Jimmy Rabbitte, the ex-manager of The Commitments. Jimmy is now 47, married to Aoife and has 4 kids. Life has been rather good since we last met him, keeping a foot in the music industry and doing well during the boom. However, life is about to change for them all as Jimmy has just discovered he is ill. This is a story about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life and maybe, just maybe, realising you can still live the dream. 29 days left to listen 1 hour, 30 minutes Jimmy ... David Wilmot Aoife ... Dawn Bradfield Jimmy Snr ... Gerry O'Brien Outspan ... Conleth Hill Les ... Liam Carney Des ... Patrick Fitzsymons Lochlainn ... Stuart Graham Noleen ... Ali White Marv ... Lloyd Cooney Jimmy Jnr ... Gavin Drea May ... Kelly Thornton Brian ... Scott Graham Yesterday 14:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tkllr On the Rocks Series 2 Episode 1 of 4 Sirens by Christopher William Hill. Second series of 1930s Isles Of Scilly comedy. It's 1938 and with all this talk of war, G.P.O. man Frank Gunwallow returns to see if all is still in order at the St. Martin's Post Office. It's 1938 and even on the remote island of St Martin's war seems inevitable, but the islanders have their own battles to contend with, stuck on a rock flung twenty-seven miles out into the Atlantic with only their natural grit and gallows humour to see them through. 30 minutes Tomorrow 11:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ng7s4 Afternoon Drama Forever Mankind It's 1973 and the American public wants to honour the bodies of the heroic astronauts who made it to the moon, but died unexpectedly, four years earlier. After much lobbying, NASA gets the funds to launch a new mission with better technology. Three lucky astronauts are delighted that they have the responsibility of reviving popular interest in the space race. They are Clyde, Frank and Scott - three patriots who are all professionals and aware that sometimes a mission goes beyond what the public is told. Ellen, an ambitious Houston TV reporter, documents their preparations and is convinced that this story will give her a national scoop. As the mission develops, she gets more than she bargains for. In Jonathan Mitchell and Judith Kampfner's alternative history, all doesn't go according to plan and the second Moon expedition opens up questions about the Cold War and competing motives for space journeys, which have a sinister edge. Recorded on location in New York City 45 minutes Ellen ... Amy Warren Danny ... Eddie Schweighart George ... John Henry Cox Clyde ... David Slavin Frank ... Christian Paluck Scott ... Mike Iveson Dean ... Mike Iveson Maggie ... Chet Siegel Sergei ... Moti Margolin President ... John Ottavino Granma ... Dorothy Stinette Buzz Aldrin ... Ed Herbstman Walt ... Ed Herbstman Neil Armstrong ... Matt Evams Wed 13 May 2015 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nxwn2 Afternoon Drama The Mysterious Case of Maria by Florence Vincent, Emer Kenny, Corey Montague-Sholay, Wemmy Ogunyankin and Sandra Townsend. A romantic comedy noir by a team of five young writers. Ellie's dropped out of law college without telling her parents. She's found refuge in a down-at-heel bar where she devours thrillers featuring kick-ass detective Bianca Kane. When charismatic bartender Maria goes missing, Ellie starts her own eccentric investigation. ABOUT THE WRITERS The writers met while working on the online BBC drama E20, a spin-off from BBC One's EastEnders. Emer Kenny was selected as the youngest ever writer for the BBC Writers Academy in 2012. Her first EastEnders episode was aired in 2012. Acting credits include EastEnders and Pramface. Corey Montague-Sholay is an actor and writer studying Arts Management at the BRIT School and developing plays for theatre. His play Aisle 26/Painrelief was performed at the Warehouse Theatre. Wemmy Ogunyankin is at college and was the youngest writer on E20. Sandra Townsend is working on a series of online science documentaries and has completed the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme. Florence Vincent also worked as a story writer for EastEnders on BBC One. She completed a Creative Writing Masters at Edinburgh where she co-wrote Remember This for Bedlam Theatre. 45 minutes Ellie ... Alex Tregear Maria ... Stephanie Racine Ben ... Adam Nagaitis Michael ... Alex Lanipekun Esteban ... Ben Crowe Jake ... Ben Crowe Fri 15 May 2015 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tkllh Book of the Week The Weather Experiment Episode 1 of 5 Stormy Weather Peter Moore's lively account tells the story of the adventurous quest to understand the atmosphere. Today we are never far from a weather forecast, but as meteorology evolved as a science in the nineteenth century it was often controversial; reputations were made and destroyed, and bold men driven by their obsession with the laws of nature took death defying risks. In the first episode, the charismatic naval officer, Robert FitzRoy, confronts storms on the high seas. The reader is Tim McMullan. 15 minutes Tomorrow 09:45 BBC Radio 4 FM only Tue 12 May 2015 00:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tpnkk Drama on 3 The Process A new adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic book The Trial - dramatised and updated by Mark Ravenhill as part of Radio 3's series "In the Shadow of Kafka". Imagine being accused of something you've not only not done, you don't even know what it is. Imagine a series of quasi-authority figures invading your office, bedroom and streets at any time of day or night. Imagine the buildings and city in which you live changing in front of your eyes. Imagine a never-ending, increasingly frightening process in which you are the key player and the least in charge. Welcome to the world of Joseph Kay. Franz Kafka spawned a whole genre of writing and entered the OED with an adjective that encapsulates his very specific brand of clear, considered prose, nightmarish landscapes of misunderstanding, twisted psyches and utter loss of individual identity. Der Prozess was first published in 1925. Mark says: "Kafka's Der Prozess is one of the defining texts of the twentieth century, so it was an exciting challenge to re-imagine it for our times. I found that Kafka's story - of an individual struggling with a system in which responsibility, judgement and meaning are endlessly deferred - sat remarkably and yet uncomfortably well in a contemporary setting. Reading through my script before I delivered it, I couldn't be sure if I'd written a comedy or a tragedy. I would guess that's what Kafka wanted." 1 hour, 30 minutes Joseph Kay ... Sam Troughton Caroline/Emma ... Caroline Catz Frank/Terry/John, an actor ... Joe Armstrong Will ... Lloyd Hutchinson Martin ... Pearce Quigley Abi/Katy, an actor ... Hara Yannas Jason/Bartle ... Lloyd Hutchinson The Facilitator/Block ... Tony Gardner Anne/Zoe ... Jo Joyner Leni ... Sinead Matthews Huld ... Marion Bailey O'Reilly ... Gaye Brown Child ... Harli Jordean Today 22:00 BBC Radio 3 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tbw1m The Castle Episode 1 of 2 In Franz Kafka's mind-warping novel, set in a bureaucratic wonderland, the hapless land-surveyor known only as K answers a summons to work at the mysterious Castle, only to find himself drawn into a labyrinth of terror and absurdity. 58 minutes K ... Dominic Rowan Frieda ... Sammy T Dobson Jeremias ... Mark Benton Artur ... Daniel Weyman Teacher ... Stephen Greif Gardena ... Rachel Bavidge Amalia ... Rachel Bavidge Olga ... Victoria Elliott Barnabas ... Neil Grainger Chief Superintendent ... Jonathan Cullen Hans ... Dominic Deakin Today 15:00 BBC Radio 4 Sat 16 May 2015 21:00 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tptfy The Essay, In the Shadow of Kafka Franz Kafka means many things to many people. Five leading writers explore the breadth of his thinking, his world and how his writing still resonates for them as contemporary writers. Part of In the Shadow of Kafka, Radio 3's series exploring the work and influence of Franz Kafka. 1. Kafka: Three Encounters - Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood's first essay on Kafka was written when she was 19 years old not yet a writer herself. Over the years she visited Prague three times, each time looking for traces of the iconic writer, each time finding a different version of him and a changing attitude of his native city to one of its most famous and elusive sons. How did he have such a far-sighted interpretation of the world around him and beyond? Margaret Atwood is a multi award-winning novelist, poet, essayist and environmental campaigner. 15 minutes Tomorrow 22:45 BBC Radio 3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tq3rd 2. His Father's Excrement: Franz Kafka and the Power of the Insect - Hanif Kureishi Hanif Kureishi explores Kafka's personal and artistic fascination with the body and food. A lifelong vegetarian, Kafka was tormented by his delicate digestion and his father's blustering, carnivorous robustness. His characters use their bodies as weapons to attack others and ultimately destroy themselves. Hanif Kureishi is a playwright, film maker and novelist. Tuesday 22:45 BBC Radio 3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tq3rg 3. Waving or Drowning: Kafka and Meaning - Karen Leeder Kafka's work is full of messengers and messages. Leeder examines the significance and interpretation of communication in Kafka, delving into meaning, a key debate around his work. She argues that it is not so much the meaning as the very act of purveying a message itself that is Kafka's aim. Karen Leeder is a prize winning translator and Professor of Modern German Literature at New College, Oxford. Wednesday 22:45 BBC Radio 3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tq3rj 4. Kafka's Castle - April de Angelis Is Kafka funny? Is he a feminist? Kafka was reported to frequently laugh uproariously at his own work, yet for many, his writing tips from comic to nihilistic and back with ease. De Angelis unpicks the comic elements of The Castle, one of his three full length novels, and argues an unusual case, for Kafka the feminist. April de Angelis is an award-winning playwright for stage, radio, opera and film. Her play Jumpy was in the West End in 2014. Thursday 22:45 BBC Radio 3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tq3rl 5. Transformer - Jeff Young Jeff first encountered Kafka as a surly teenager in the 1970s, when a kipper tie wearing art teacher put A Love Supreme by John Coltrane on the turntable during an art lesson and read aloud from Metamorphosis. The magic and mystery of Kafka's writing was made even powerful by the fact that it had been translated. Over time, Jeff collected and compared every new edition. His essay looks at the nature of translation, how it sits between the writer and the words and how that magical space allows the reader to discover his or her own version of the author and his intention. Jeff Young is a playwright, for radio stage and screen. He has written about 30 radio plays, radio essays and drama documentaries. In 2014 his play 'Bright Phoenix' marked the 50th anniversary of Liverpool Everyman theatre. Next Friday 22:45 BBC Radio 3 ==== http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ptw Podcast Drama of the Week: Stone Episode 1 Dirt by Martin Jameson. First drama of Stone series created by Danny Brocklehurst and starring Hugo Speer as DCI John Stone. Also available on iTunes. =====

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