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« on: 22:44:17, 11-02-2008 »
Anyone else enjoy this monthly strand? (The Wire - Saturday evenings - monthly)

Far better than some of the drama offerings on R4!

Should be on every week though, as it does counterpoint the more classically led Sunday evening drama.

What do others think?

I particularly enjoyed this one:

Gulf

Saturday 1 December 2007 21:00-21:45 (Radio 3)

By Mark Kotting.

Crazy golf takes on a whole new meaning in this fiery portrait of a family in meltdown, as 30 years of smouldering tensions finally reach their flashpoint.
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45 minutes
Playlist:

Terry ...... Steven Hartley
Nan ...... Ann Mitchell
Danny ...... Ben Onwukwe
Emma ...... Emma Noakes
Carol ...... Tilly Vosburgh
Mr Pink ...... Simon Treves
Doctor ...... Peter Marinker

Directed by Toby Swift.
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« Reply #1 on: 00:32:25, 12-02-2008 »
BBC Radio Drama is mostly a kind of caricature of itself.

Next week there's a play about a fine woman of good character, married to a violent drinker who's an Officer in the British Army in the Raj.

Actually there isn't, but there easily could be Sad
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« Reply #2 on: 09:02:54, 12-02-2008 »
In two weeks' time, there's a play on Radio 4 about Debussy's 1905 sojourn in Eastbourne to finish writing La Mer and to escape the sex scandal he'd triggered in the French press by his adultery. A 'piquant' performance is promised from Andrew Sachs as the composer, whilst Paul Merton adds a wry touch as the persistent La Monde reporter dogging his every move.





(no there isn't)
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« Reply #3 on: 10:27:29, 12-02-2008 »
I nearly always give The Wire a miss but do try to record Drama on 3 each Sunday. The latter is a bit hit and miss but then having them on MD means I can pick and choose. I particularly enjoyed Sheridan's The Rivals in mid-December with Patricia Routledge as Mrs Malaprop and Geoffrey Palmer as Sir Anthony Absolute. I know it's a very silly play but I have a certain affection for it because of reading it at school - and I'm sure I appreciated the malapropisms more this time round.
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« Reply #4 on: 12:18:08, 12-02-2008 »
Quote from: martle on 09:02:54, 12-02-2008
(no there isn't)

I think you must have confused it with another BBC "masterpiece" about Geoff, a well-meaning Social Worker, who is assigned to care for the fiercely independent Old Bert.  In an exactly-as-you-expected denouement, Geoff finds he can learn much from Old Bert.
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« Reply #5 on: 14:04:06, 12-02-2008 »
Quote from: martle on 09:02:54, 12-02-2008
In two weeks' time, there's a play on Radio 4 about Debussy's 1905 sojourn in Eastbourne to finish writing La Mer and to escape the sex scandal he'd triggered in the French press by his adultery. A 'piquant' performance is promised from Andrew Sachs as the composer, whilst Paul Merton adds a wry touch as the persistent La Monde reporter dogging his every move.
You particularly interested in that story, martle? Wink
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« Reply #6 on: 14:40:24, 12-02-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 14:04:06, 12-02-2008
You particularly interested in that story, martle? Wink

Well, it does have a certain suggestiveness, tinners...
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« Reply #7 on: 14:44:07, 12-02-2008 »
An On the Rocks-type suggestiveness, maybe, martle?
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« Reply #8 on: 15:38:21, 12-02-2008 »
Indeed, Ron. Cheers!
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« Reply #9 on: 22:54:41, 12-02-2008 »
cask strength?
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« Reply #10 on: 23:32:12, 12-02-2008 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 00:32:25, 12-02-2008
BBC Radio Drama is mostly a kind of caricature of itself.

Next week there's a play about a fine woman of good character, married to a violent drinker who's an Officer in the British Army in the Raj.

Actually there isn't, but there easily could be Sad

Sadly, there is an element of truth there!

Radio drama is an 'almost' perfect medium for dialogue - no distractions of poorly painted sets, or the person next to you sucking on mints!
There is so, so much more that can be done...
...yet we tend to get (though thankfully not always) same old, same old.

As my writing 'career' (ha!) is embryonic, I do not know if this is due to lack of quality scripts arriving at Broadcasting House, or producers just choosing what they like, rather than what they think the listeners will like.

To expand on my original post at the top of this thread, I thought that Stephen Hartley (I don't know the fella) was superb, and I hope we hear more from new writer Mark Kotting (could find no info on him on the 'net whatsoever).
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« Reply #11 on: 23:39:09, 12-02-2008 »
It's focus-group time isn't it? The safe and dependable rather than the classic or ground-breaking. I'm sure that one of the reasons we never hear drama from the archives is because it would show much of what we get now to be distinctly inferior.
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« Reply #12 on: 00:01:35, 13-02-2008 »
Quote from: Ron Dough on 23:39:09, 12-02-2008
It's focus-group time isn't it? The safe and dependable rather than the classic or ground-breaking. I'm sure that one of the reasons we never hear drama from the archives is because it would show much of what we get now to be distinctly inferior.

Arrgh! No! Focus groups! (runs from room screaming)

That is undoubtedly true about the archives. It would indeed show up present day drama as inferior.

My son has just got a DVD from Amazon Rental the old (1970) ITV series called 'Timeslip', which was shown around tea-time. Despite grainy b/w, 4:3, mono sound, he (and I!) says it is superb. He says that children's tv (and the rest of it in my opinion) is now woeful.
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« Reply #13 on: 06:32:22, 31-03-2008 »
Crikey, I remember that! Oliver Postgate has persistently petitioned the bbc on this issue and has proved that his work still pulls in a young 'cool' audience focus-group style. The issue now is about foreign sales for which you need the sub-linguistic and cheap. Stylisation and what I can only call peremptory shoutiness is endemic so often, and I think the art of thesping for radio is kind of in abeyance. Good luck df, you might just be part pf turning things around.
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« Reply #14 on: 18:49:58, 31-03-2008 »
Quote from: marbleflugel on 06:32:22, 31-03-2008
The issue now is about foreign sales for which you need the sub-linguistic and cheap.
I don't think you do, though, do you? I wouldn't buy a foreign film that was so 'sub-linguistic' I could understand (and hate) every minute of it; I can get things like that closer to home any day.
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