Category: Radio Plays

Posted in Radio Plays Shakespeare Theatre

Barely-a-Review: Richard III, Radio 3

“So wise, so young, they say, do never live long” I picked on this radio adaptation of…

Posted in LGBTQ+ Radio Plays Theatre

Review – A Larkin Double, Radio 4

“His impulse is to run away, but there’s nowhere to run to” Philip Larkin is well known…

Posted in Noël Coward Radio Plays Theatre

Review: Present Laughter, Radio 4

“There’s something awfully sad about happiness isn’t there” Casting is everything and Celia de Wolff hits the…

Posted in Michael Frayn Radio Plays Theatre

Radio Review: Skios/Copenhagen/Headlong

“Foxoliver?” Michael Frayn’s 80th birthday is being celebrated by BBC radio with a mini-season of his work,…

Posted in Radio Plays Theatre

Radio Review: Second Body + Art and Gadg, Radio 4

“Be careful Anna, of the dark forces of the human mind” I knew I liked Tara Fitzgerald’s…

Posted in BBC Audio Drama Awards Charles Dickens David Eldridge Harold Pinter Nick Payne Radio Plays

BBC Audio Drama Awards 2013 finalists

Best Audio Drama (Single play) (Judges: Jane Anderson, Fiona Shaw, Ben Stephenson, Vanessa Thorpe) Betrayal by Harold…

Posted in Radio Plays Theatre

Radio Review: The Eustace Diamonds, Radio 4

“If only money were not an obstacle” With fortuitous timing, given how much Trollope I’d read and…

Posted in Radio Plays Theatre

Radio Review: Austerlitz, Radio 3

“We talked about how memory deals or doesn’t deal with what is intolerable” WG Sebald’s novel Austerlitz…

Posted in Radio Plays Theatre

Radio Review: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen + Gracey and Me

“Is this the way to Macclesfield?” Books like Alan Garner’s The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Owl…