Enquirer (R4 Friday Play)

[Guest]

A welcome (if singular) return of the Friday Play is Enquirer, a topical angst-ridden elegy for newspaper journalism, drawn from interviews.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ntm33

Some background info on the production here.

Russ

[DracoM]

Yes, indeed, many welcomes for the return of the Friday Play, BUT what a mess this one was!
Just felt like a bunch of press cuttings with not a lot of thread or trajectory.

When you think how many stonking plays the BBC must have in archive, this one hardly merited a run out.

[kernelbogey]

I've been wondering if we should have a Radio Four board or sub-board.

Any views?

[Russ]

It was a bit uneven, Dracs, and showed all the signs of being written by a committee, but I'm prepared to be enthusiastic about anything new at the moment! (cf Do3, which has just repeated Skyvers, and next week we'll hear Sunset again! Both good, but....)

Russ

[aeolium]

I've been wondering if we should have a Radio Four board or sub-board.

Any views?

Actually this board is supposedly for "the verbal arts on Radio 3 and elsewhere", kb, so there shouldn't be a problem about posting comments on R4 plays here.

I sometimes listen to drama on R4 but didn't catch up with this one.

[handsomefortune]

i enjoyed 'enquirer' very much having discovered it by chance.

it was what it was....a series of snippets of interviews ....need it be a performance, and story, to be considered 'good'?

thanks for the background material russ - (how very thorough)!

personally, i could do with something similar about uk media journalism generally - (rather than the focus necessarily being on the written word and in newspapers, though this is where journalistic standards were once much higher and a decline is most clearly visible, and especially noticeable to all right now due to the leveson inquiry).