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RADIO REVIEW: Listening to Trollope in a new light

... Listening to Trollope in a new light By MOIRA PETTY MOST great men have their secret pleasures. John Major reads Trollope. Emerging, blinking, from the closet on Desert Island Discs he chose The Small House at Allington as the book to accompany him on a sojourn awav from the front benches. Lo and behold. the very same is the subject of the Classic Serial (R4; from Sunday, September 19). Did ...

Published: Thursday 07 October 1993
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1431 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Christmas is better on the air

... Christmas is better on the air Iiv MOIItA PETTY OK, SO I'm biased, but I think radio does Christmas so much better than television. The 12 days of Christmas seem more like the 1200 while festive television, with all those Christmas specials filmed in the summer, washes over you. And attaching the tag 1 V pre miere' to a film doesn't make it any better than the first time you saw it at the ...

Published: Friday 30 December 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1070 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: radio review 

Radio Review

... By MOIRA PETTY Today, but Blair is a good news-only man so we were swiftly on to its next incarnation as a nightclub. Along came another man of vision Peter Stringfellow. \jaaiy, amongst all tnese snowoiz luminaries ana men oi vision, some oi them still alive, there were no personal recollections, merely Blair's rather excitable commentary. In nearly 1 00 years there must have been many a ...

Published: Thursday 10 March 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 583 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: There's no sinking the Radio 5 ship

... There's no sinking the Radio 5 ship By MOIRA PETTY LIKE the orchestra playing as the ship goes down, Radio 5 is coming into its own with drama serials. Is this a bid by the doomed station, already the market leader in children's drama, to prove how indispensable it is? Or is it by way of a treat for those handful of listeners clinging to the rails before it goes to its death on March 27? Radio ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1225 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Thirties Depression drama still has resonance in the nineties

... Thirties Depression drama still has resonance in the nineties By MOIRA PETTY CAN the kind of dramatic writing which has particular resonances for the time in which it was conceived continue to grip audiences from another era? Radio 3's current Thirties Season prompts such a thought. The answer must be yes, if the first play in its pro gramme, Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty (R3, Sunday, ...

Published: Thursday 24 March 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1317 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: radio review 

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

... Great fun to be had from Pontac's parodies by MOIRA PETTY THE TWO best radio comedies of recent weeks, both parodies of great works, have come from the same pen, that of the excoriatingly witty Perry Pontac. His Prince Lear (R3, Friday, November 18) was a miniaturised prequel to the rather more famous King Lear, artfully composed in the Stratford house style with fluent blank verse, flowery ...

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

Radio Review: Complex maelstrom of motives

... Complex maelstrom of motives By MOIRA PETTY Drama with a strong ethnic or regional flavour fares well on radio, its sense of its own roots giving it a purposefulness. The season of new American playwriting, broadcast under the banner New Found Land has been extraordinarily good, not least because of its breadth of interpretation of the American experience. Nearer to home, Ireland has been ...

Published: Thursday 27 February 1997
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 884 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Gripping Cotswold caper

... Gripping Cotswold caper Peter Tinniswood has become a magical name in radio drama, but wtien expectations are high, so are the stakes. The House Swap, (R4, Saturday, February 6) was a jewel, an assemblage of robust cynicism, delicate insights, and dialogue that was natural but never mundane. In other hands, his tale of the spectral presence of a gnarled old man who brings understanding to a ...

Published: Thursday 11 February 1999
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 883 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: radio review 

Radio Review: China old and new- a symbolic snoop

... China old and new- a symbolic snoop BY MOIRA PETTY Gangster gunfire vying with the bars of Andrew Lioyd Webber musicals on opening night; corpses in hi-tech trainers, a manic glint in their dead eyes. These were some of the symbols of the New China as depicted in the 'colour' pieces of Shanghai journalist Lin Jun in John Fletcher's absorbing play DeadHne (R4, Thursday. October 16). Ordered ...

Published: Thursday 23 October 1997
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 930 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Now it's laidback Robert!

... Now it's laidback Robert! A bizarre early life in hippy communes, sleeping among free spirits on beaches, Tias fashioned a broad outlook for Robert Carlyle, star of the series Hamish Macbeth BY LISA VANOLI Probably best known for his portrayal of Albie, the psychopathic Liverpool fan in the latest series of Cracker, Robert Carlyle has had a dramatic change of character for his new series ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 862 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Views from the battle lines

... Views from the battle lines BY MOIRA PETTY The reverberations of the dirty business that is war, of hopefulness outdone by hopelessness, echoed through two dramas that on the surface had little to link them. Silver's City (R4, Monday, April 24) on Loyalist Belfast was a hard thriller with a soft centre that turned out to be hard after all. Gary Mitchell's Stranded (R3, Saturday, April 29) was ...

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

RADIO REVIEW: Left longing for more Sillitoe

... Left longing for more Sillitoe BY MOIRA PETTY The sense of a community in a time and place was wrapped as thick as porridge around Allan Sillitoe's mesmerising radio reinterpretation of his own classic Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (Mentorn Radio for R4, Monday, November 27). Working class Nottingham 35 years ago seemed light years away root ed in some dark Dickensian past where there was ...

Published: Thursday 07 December 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 990 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: radio review