... cellar sampling his vintages. If the Hit Man runs short of jokes, I hope they have a tape of the laugh-a-sec- ond Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation (R4 from Thursday, September 30 and Rl from Saturday, October 2) with which to keep up their spirits. Hardy's ...

... police sta tion, to court, to prison and back again, Blake joins in the familiar litany. It now becomes clear that Bourke is speaking from a tape recording he has made, which Blake fast forwards and rewinds at his pleasure, clearly as drawn to his unlikely ...

... bitter sweet taste of chang ing times came through strongly amidst the hyperbole and angst of Kurt Weill's dramatised story in Speak Low (R3; Sunday, May 29). Bruce Stewart's play sees Weill (Andrew Sachs) having escaped Nazism but not his past and settled ...

... his family, was beating them; but this was bog standard home life as con jured up by Blyton. Mourby had Quentin, who could speak Georgian, going to Russia with Shaw and Wells to meet Stalin. George was in two minds about her father. She described his suicide ...

... fundamentalism, of sects, and, if recent reports arc to be believed, a wave of affirmative Christianity in which worshippers speak in tongues. Peter Roberts' play Devil's Province (BBC Pebble Mill for R4; Monday, June 20) was rather timely then, with ...

... of Cockneys like Benny Green, cheeky chappies with purist accents that seem almost affected next to the pervasive Estuary-Speak. You couldn't help reflecting, on hearing Green's week long series Music Hall Memoirs (Green Mann Productions for R3; from ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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) ...

... 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 ...

... over- egged with psychiatry, thriller ele ments and magic realism in the shape of a punk angel (Carolyn Backhouse) and a speaking dog (Bill Monks) with a terrible smok er's cough. There was a terrible dog, Crusher of black magic fame, in a truly spin ...

... both women, cake- maker Billy (Trevor Fox). Hall understands women and writes strong roles for them. The men either can't speak or are unable to string together coher ent thought. Billy, asked how he's been, volunteers the infor mation: Busy we've a ...