Speech Radio You Have Listened To Lately

[AuntDaisy]

Tonight's Drama on 3, Jean Anouilh's "Antigone", claims "This is the first audio production in 40 years...".
It isn't - World Service did a 1997 production with Helen Schlesinger as Antigone & Ian McDiarmid as Creon, using the Lewis Galantiere translation (lightly abridged), producer Jocelyn Boxall.
(Not sure itf this should be on Pedant's Paradise...)

The 1985 version with Jane Asher, Peter Vaughan & Norman Rodway will take some beating...

[LMcD]

Tonight's Drama on 3, Jean Anouilh's "Antigone", claims "This is the first audio production in 40 years...".
It isn't - World Service did a 1997 production with Helen Schlesinger as Antigone & Ian McDiarmid as Creon, using the Lewis Galantiere translation (lightly abridged), producer Jocelyn Boxall.
(Not sure itf this should be on Pedant's Paradise...)

The 1985 version with Jane Asher, Peter Vaughan & Norman Rodway will take some beating...

Apparently it's also Sean Bean's first radio drama in 25 years. Perhaps he's taking a break from promoting Yorkshire tea.

[AuntDaisy]

Apparently it's also Sean Bean's first radio drama in 25 years. Perhaps he's taking a break from promoting Yorkshire tea.

After Jean-Luc Picard took over.

[smittims]

Sean Bean was in a much-commented-on TV drama series called 'Marriage' last year(I think) or the year before. It's worth a mention because , so it seemed to me,it was an attempt at ultra-realism. In a normal, well-crafted drama, everything that happens is vital to forwarding the plot. All the dialogue is to the point, and characters seem to have no other interests. But in this case they came into the kitchen one by one, took something out of the fridge,etc. and didn't speak to each other for minutes on end. In my opinion it was a failure and some commenttators called it boring or pretentious, but others said it was 'brave programming'.

I tried to watch it until something started to make sense , but in the end I lost patience.

[AuntDaisy]

Sean Bean was in a much-commented-on TV drama series called 'Marriage' last year(I think) or the year before. It's worth a mention because , so it seemed to me,it was an attempt at ultra-realism. In a normal, well-crafted drama, everything that happens is vital to forwarding the plot. All the dialogue is to the point, and characters seem to have no other interests. But in this case they came into the kitchen one by one, took something out of the fridge,etc. and didn't speak to each other for minutes on end. In my opinion it was a failure and some commenttators called it boring or pretentious, but others said it was 'brave programming'.

I tried to watch it until something started to make sense , but in the end I lost patience.

Thanks for the heads up / warning, smittims, on "Marriage". It's available on iPlayer.

If they took milk from the fridge, would that be a Pint-eresque pause?

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks for the heads up / warning, smittims, on "Marriage". It's available on iPlayer.

If they took milk from the fridge, would that be a Pint-eresque pause?

Not 'arf!

[Forget It (U2079353)]

BBC Hidden Treasures on Radio4Xtra at 14:30 all this week include:

Oscar Wilde - An Ideal Husband
Starring Noel Johnson, Jane Wenham, Ronald Lewis and Rosemary Martin,
Director: David Geary
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1970.

Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus
With Dorothy Lane and Charles Simon
Director David Geary
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1971

Patrick Hamilton - The Slaves of Solitude
Starring Gwen Watford, Raymond Huntley, Jill Bennett and Peter Marinker
Dramatised by William Fox.
Director: John Cardy
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980.

Alan Ayckbourn - Absurd Person Singular
With Christopher Godwin, Jane Knowles, Frances Jeater, John Rowe...
Director: Kay Patrick
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1977

Daphne du Maurier - The Scapegoat
Starring Hugh Burdon and Beatrix Lehmann.
Dramatised by Archie Campbell.
Director: Archie Campbell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1972.

Plus at 06:00 Friday
RD Wingfield - Cat and Mouse Game
Starring Hugh Burden and Michael Kilgarriff.
Producer: David H Godfrey
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1971.

[LMcD]

Sean Bean was in a much-commented-on TV drama series called 'Marriage' last year(I think) or the year before. It's worth a mention because , so it seemed to me,it was an attempt at ultra-realism. In a normal, well-crafted drama, everything that happens is vital to forwarding the plot. All the dialogue is to the point, and characters seem to have no other interests. But in this case they came into the kitchen one by one, took something out of the fridge,etc. and didn't speak to each other for minutes on end. In my opinion it was a failure and some commenttators called it boring or pretentious, but others said it was 'brave programming'.

I tried to watch it until something started to make sense , but in the end I lost patience.

Viewing figures fell steeply from 5.44 million to below 2.32 million over the 4 episodes, but I stuck with it because for me the combination of Sean Bean and Nicola Walker was too good to miss.

[smittims]

For the same reason I continued to watch 'Mum', the previous drama by the same team, because I admire Lesley Manville's acting. This was despite a dire script and a set of wholly unsympathetic and downright irritating characters. And the theme song had me reaching for the 'mute' button every time .

[johncorrigan]

I've never been to Margate but, after listening to the first episode of the new series of 'Mark Steel's in Town', I might just plan a day trip next time I'm down in the Smoke - very funny, very clever, and informative with it; and with his wonderful ability to deploy the running joke.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020hn8

[Old Grumpy]

A friend of mine has introduced me to this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09xgmd5?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

I have just listened to the first episode. Sounds interesting, but may not suit everyone one this forum.

[johncorrigan]

A friend of mine has introduced me to this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09xgmd5?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

I have just listened to the first episode. Sounds interesting, but may not suit everyone one this forum.

I find it a bit hit and miss, OG. Until this season, Cerys Matthews was one of the presenters, and much though I enjoy some of her shows, I didn't think she worked very well in 'Add to Playlist'. I heard this week's episode in the car today and found the input of Sitar player Jasdeep Singh Degun very informative. It's in its ninth season now - Anna Phoebe has replaced Cerys - in my opinion check out the playlist and guests first. There are things to enjoy, things to get irritated by.

[Old Grumpy]

Helpful, thanks.

[Serial_Apologist]

Truly excellent and timely discussion on what lessons, if any, history can, or has ever been able to teach us, on yesterday's edition of The Moral Maze, over on Radio 4.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0020qtb

The information quotient content is pretty dense in these discussions, in which panellists of different persuasions interrogate specialists of different disciplines with a final group summation, but in the end rewarding. Here a notion of comparative historicity emerged by the conclusion - how to define what criteria to bring to bear on the matter, or, even, whose?

[smittims]

Was it AJP Taylor who said ' one of the things we learn from History is that people don't learn from History'?

What an irony that this programme, which in its essence is really Third Programme stuff, should be on R4 while R3 is broadcasting middle-brow trivia.