... enjoyed drama success. Now she is taking on a part in her favourite soap opera By BOB EBORALL To gain exposure, an actor or actress cannot go wrong these days with a part in the oldest and most successful soap. Coronation Street - which has certainly got ...

... instrument of social control ever devised. This was a provocative, if dry, play marred by the casting of a clearly younger actress as an ancient member of the church's congregation in one scene. Her vibrato reminded me of those eerie radio children. Miscastings ...

... Chekhov's multifaceted characters. Diana Quick was an imperious, yet shallow, Madame Arkadina, whose continual cry, But I am an actress, betokened some medical condition. The symptoms in her case were overweening vanity and an insularity of mind which focussed ...

... repeat it in the second half, in order to move his stocks of fairy wand merchandise dur ing the interval. A late notice for actress Jo Anderson's gripping evocation of theatrical life in The Understudy (R4; Saturday, February 19). She expertly enmeshed an ...

... Philip Treleaven will introduce three backstage personalities who will remind listeners of some of the great actors and actresses they have known. First is Valentine Bragginton, nearly 80 years old, and a stage doorkeeper at the Savoy. He re members ...

... two estranged wives, a vanished daughter and an institutionalised son, he said mournfully in his heavy German accent. The Actress (Monroe) was played by Frances Barber with the trademark breathiness which turned to comic book squeaks of delight as she ...

... Heads (BBC Pebble Mill for R4. Saturday, March 25) was more larcical than Ben Travers. Oddly, you felt sorry for the maligned actress (Celia Imrie) but Ronald Pickup did such a good job with his awful reactionary MP that you could have almost fallen for the ...

... Paul's. The travails of a woman who is unofficial agony aunt to all was the theme of Lovely Witches (R4, Thursday. June 8) by actress and writer Moya O'Shea. It was a warm, funny and endearing account, with a Caria Lane feel to it. of kindly, taken-for- granted ...

... exchanges with them often made me laugh out loud. The series was written by Paul Copley, Andy Rashleigh and Richard Stoneman. Actress Lesley Whitely also has a facility for comic writing, as exhibited in her first play, I Should Be So Lucky (BBC North for ...

... male radio voices, portrayed Tom, who played up to Anna's insecurities. Birkin was almost too thinly plaintive, too much the actress reading a script. But the sting was that this was her script, her life. Art is often less messy and more crafted, as it was ...

... Stephens played Orlando, the leading suitor, as a man of redoubtable good sense, partnered by Imogen Stubbs' Rosalind. She is an actress who on radio as well as on stage and screen can convev a bovishness mixed with femininity, attributes which allowed Rosalind ...

... steered clear of being comic turns, which would have been easy given the wit of the writing. Gonet is a consummate radio actress as we heard in her superb performance in The Piano. Here, she kept hysteria and pathos within acceptable bound aries. She ...