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RADIO REVIEW: Views from the battle lines

... naturally to no, you can't have this parking space. As one character said: Most of the people I know can only speak one language, a few of them speak it fluently. Those few were also given their voice. Mitchell's bang upto-date play for the Studio 3 slot ...

Published: Thursday 04 May 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 778 | Page: 25 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Sugary confection is a feast for the ears

... stage-set mood of the piece. Poetic rent boys would per haps interest Flann O'Brien, whose musings on tramps who speak Greek and professors who speak neither English nor Irish were among the pleasures of The Cmiskeen Lawn (R4, from Wednesday. August 13). His ...

Published: Thursday 14 August 1997
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 942 | Page: 17 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Comedy of Celtic cadences

... Playboy. But it was in the language that I found star tling affinities of expression. It could have been the Irish vil lagers speaking of some repro bate, when FalstafTs critics denounced him as old, withered and intolerable of entrail. Merry Wives demands ...

Published: Thursday 09 October 1997
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 909 | Page: 23 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Irish radio excellence

... have to be played wati poncafed accent or atMude. It made its point watt BMi Rotter's Richard tfiOam\0f mag netic, even as he speaks pMn and northern, and strang backup from a cast ndudng Owe ML terua Bermtson. Russel Dtaon and PoKy Hemingway. R was the kind ...

Published: Thursday 28 September 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 842 | Page: 23 | Tags: radio review 

Radio Review: Laugh with the lawyers

... long trail of hatred. Why don-t they write ballads or poetry or symphonies about women like me?, she asked, for once not speaking in the third person about herself. The preachers' ranting was pitted against beautiful choral song, the ugliness and solitude ...

Published: Thursday 25 March 1999
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 906 | Page: 31 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Turgid dramas banished from the air

... peas ants' revolt and took in several highly comic scenes delineating life in this enclosed madcap com munity. The plain-speaking, if con niving, Mr Noakes (Stephen Thome) sounded like a refugee from The Archers at its most con spiratorial. Directed by ...

Published: Thursday 13 August 1998
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 915 | Page: 19 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Getting to the heart of matters

... com munication with Alan Turing, who shaped the artificial intelligence which was to become the modem computer, and who was speaking from the Bletchley Park decoding centre towards the end of the Second World War. There were references to Shakespeare, rewritten ...

Published: Thursday 09 April 1998
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 944 | Page: 23 | Tags: radio review 

Radio Review: Shorn's satirical edge was a cut above

... as well as the ubiquitous victims' support group. The police suggested, in an announcement spoken in stilted panto PC Plod speak, that long haired men should get their sis ters or girlfriends to show them how to put their hair up. A professor (Lisa Bowerman) ...

Published: Thursday 13 July 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 942 | Page: 28 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Great fun to be had from Pontac's parodies

... No bowels for school dinners in the second series of The Headman (R4, from Wednesday, November 23) but plenty of new wave speak, resources rooms and computer technology seeming to dominate the syllabuses. It was all so different from my formative years ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 981 | Page: 17 | Tags: radio review 

Radio Review: Terror submerged deep down

... conversant with all things technical, the adventure series Wormhotes (Backbite Produc tions for R4, from Sunday, July 6) did not speak down to them. The script, by Martin Jameson and Peter Kerry, was full of references to the space-time continuum, and the womnholes ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1997
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 931 | Page: 28 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Portrait of an artist in lust

... inviolability of the artist was given further airtime in the second part of The Trials of Oscar Wilde The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Mind (R4, Saturday, October 5). Shaw (Jim Norton) did not censure Wilde's homosexuality, seeing his trial for indecency ...

Published: Thursday 24 October 1996
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 976 | Page: 21 | Tags: radio review 

Radio Review: Plenty captured on the run

... by Stephen Bain and Deborah Tucker, it is the first offering from Wordplay, a cooper ative of radio stations in English- speaking countries. A group of people underwent an extraordinary period of sensory deprivation in their bid to win a car. Lives were ...

Published: Thursday 03 July 1997
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 926 | Page: 26 | Tags: radio review