Recent BBC Radio Drama
Radio 4 has given us an embarrassment of riches recently, and due to the remarkable snowfalls here I’ve had ample time to listen (while shovelling our over-long driveway). Still online, and well worth a listen are Simon Bovey’s dark mystery, The Iceman and Robin Brooks’s witty tribute to M.R. James, A Warning to the Furious. Best of all is a repeat of Marcy Kahan’s 20 Cigarettes, which was a 2007 Tinniswood award nominee, and deservedly so. (Kahan is the writer of the brilliant Noel Coward comedy/mysteries, and also wrote the screenplay for the excellent, but apparently not-yet-on-DVD Antonia and Jane
posted on Sunday, December 30th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
And don’t forget Radio 3. Here’s Mike Bartlett’s gem, Not Talking, broadcast yesterday and available online until next Sat.
OT: The Post reports on an Orkneys sport called ” ba’ ” which is like a primitive version of rugby, but not a finesse game the way rugby is. British culture continually offers surprises.
I recently enjoyed the adaptation of 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, with Gillian Anderson as the New York bibliophile. It is cosy and surprisingly touching.
Click on ‘Tuesday’:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/afternoon_play.shtml
Also there is ‘Don’t Hang Up’, an amazing episode of which is only available direct:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio4/aod.shtml?radio4/donthangup
A man phones up telephone boxes and hears some remarkable stories. Reality TV/Radio as it should be.
Infuriating the Beeb doesn’t post this stuff as mp3 files – and that they take it down off their website so quickly.
They post the streaming files for seven days, starting about an hour or so after broadcast. There are ways to archive them for later listening; I just got through the Somerset Maugham ‘Ashenden, Gentlemen Spy’ series from BBC7 earlier in the month, and it was very well done.
Some of the BBC Radio 4 comedy programs (in particular the Now Show and the News Quiz) and most of the documentary programs are available as podcasts.
They post the streaming files for seven days, starting about an hour or so after broadcast. There are ways to archive them for later listening; I just got through the Somerset Maugham ‘Ashenden, Gentlemen Spy’ series from BBC7 earlier in the month, and it was very well done.
Some of the BBC Radio 4 comedy programs (in particular the Now Show and the News Quiz) and most of the documentary programs are available as podcasts.
Antonia and Jane was released on VHS; a copy might still be floating around on eBay or somewhere. Very, very funny play.