As I’ve proven awful at keeping this blog updated despite
the fact I’m regularly listening to six BBC radio dramas per week plus other
things from time to time, I decided to try a new strategy of giving quarterly
highlights in different categories.
That’s gotta go some way toward getting some reviews out, right? I’ve also some up with these handy new
categories, with “new” being on original broadcast or new to me and “old” being
anything re-broadcast. I find genre is
sometimes difficult to pin down so these are subjective categories as
well.
001 Historical Drama
– New
002 Historical Drama
- Old
003 Historical Comedy
– New
004 Historical Comedy
– Old
005 Contemporary
Drama – New
006 Contemporary
Drama – Old
007 Horror – New
008 Horror – Old
009 Police Procedural
– Old
010 Police Procedural
– New
011 Contemporary
Comedy – New
012 Contemporary
Comedy – Old
013 Adaptation – Old
014 Adaptation – New
015 Speculative
Fiction – Old
016 Speculative
Fiction – New
017 Mystery – New
018 Mystery – Old
005 Contemporary
Drama – New
Distinguished
and award-winning playwright and poet Michael Symons Roberts contributed 79 Birthdays, a thought-provoking play
in blank verse in January. Starring Starring
Nico Mirallegro, David Calder, Kate Coogan, Emily Pithon, Russell Dixon and
directed by Susan Roberts, I didn’t quite know what to make of the play at
first. Inspired by Lance Sieveking’s
1928 Kaleidoscope (of which no
script and certainly no recording survive) which showed a day in the life of
one person, the play took the average lifespan of a man in 2016—79—and embroidered
upon its theme. Jimmy died before he was
born—so how come he’s ended up in limbo with the angel Leila (an RP-voiced
man)? Jimmy wants to see the blueprint
of the life he could have had, so Leila fast-forwards to some of his
birthdays. It took several days for this
conceit to mellow in my brain.
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