Headlong

[ardcarp]

Saturday Drama on R4 was a radio version of Michael Frayn's novel.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pz4tx

Apart from being a satire on the world of Fine Art, it was a most amusing hour and a half's listening. A bit of a romp perhaps, but none the worse for that.

[french frank]

A résumé of the plot here. I don't think it had penetrated my consciousness that the reason for all the current BBC Fraynmania is that it is his 80th birthday this year.

[Globaltruth]

A résumé of the plot here. I don't think it had penetrated my consciousness that the reason for all the current BBC Fraynmania is that it is his 80th birthday this year.

Read the book years ago - as I recall it wasn't such a frenetic pace & the characters had slightly more subtlety and were therefore slightly more believable.

[french frank]

Read the book years ago - as I recall it wasn't such a frenetic pace & the characters had slightly more subtlety and were therefore slightly more believable.

Interesting. Is that what someone else's radio adaptation has done to the novel, I wonder?

[aeolium]

I wasn't greatly impressed by the novel, so I didn't bother to listen to this adaptation. I've still got to catch up with the Dürrenmatt play that was on Do3 yesterday.