... Maria Aitken, fielded a Larita in Lia Williams whose wit, in the face of the intransigence of the family into which she had married, was humane yet incisive. As her reluctant mother-in-law, Anna Massey's performance was a study in razor- edged oppression ...

... Tassie (R3, Sunday, February 13) was an epic from the archives. Radio wisely got in early on Joanna Trollope's new novel Marrying the Mistress (R4, from Monday, February 14). Her story of an affair told from many perspectives worked well in these readings ...

... invalid of a wife (Gillian Goodman) the girls made marriages which would bring problems. Cathy Sara's steady-voiced Mary married the physically repulsive Edward Massey, played by Robert Pickavance with a falsetto which summed up his bodily imperfections ...

... tantalisingly plummy, so sharply to the point. Having opted to marry, she decided, like something out of Bridget Jones' most fevered imagination, to turn everyone else into smug marrieds as well. It is as if Shakespeare is saying that women do not operate ...

... Rose Macaulay. Thin Woman In a Morris Minor (R4, Thursday, June 15) finally got to the crunch of her relation ship with a married man after meandering as much as she did on her travels. TtAPIO REVIEW Film noir--Ari Fliakos and Kate Valk in Phedre on Radio ...

... Indul gently escapist fare but the Chinese doctor (sweetly played by Sarah Lam) remained irritatingly blinkered about her married white lover (a seductive Nick Reding). The clash of east coast mores and the rougher instincts of the American wild west of ...

... play was the mother's daily appearance with dishes to tempt her ex's flagging appetite. As she tearfully announced she was to marry Mr Spalding, Lulu's father was wrenched out of his torpor. He offered to put the kettle on for the first time in three years ...

... at home, secure and safe, was meant ironically. This is because it was directed at the rich widow whom Hortensio had just married. The irony failed to make the transla tion to the performances. Gerard McSoriey's Petruchio brought his wife to her knees ...

... Manager's WHe (R4, Tuesday, October 17) was a jewel in which speech idioms brought to life the ten sions of a badly-matched married couple (Pauline Collins and Timothy West). He was the foot ball manager, who spoke in a hilarious medley of grammatical errors ...

... pair (Lizzy Mclnnemey and Jonathan Coy) as a single woman, hailing from a Paddington bedsit in the fifties, and her dreadful married lover who dripped his guilt all over her. An intriguing real hoax from 1726 was told in The Rabbits of Godabnlng (R4, Wednesday ...