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Radio Review: Adaptations we want to know and hear

... Adaptations we want to know and hear By MORIRA PETTY Time Men In a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (BBC Wortd Service for R4, Thursday, December 29) set moments of near pastoral idyll side by side with hysterically prosaic domestic considerations. Tom Stoppard's faultless adaptation provided. scene after scene to savour, retaining a the gentle absurdity of Jerome K Jerome's original. The ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 994 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Meldrew's the new Victor of the airwaves

... Meldrew's the new Victor of the airwaves BY MORIA PETTY Victor MeMrew, the peerless old codger from One Foot in the Grave (R2. from Saturday, January 21), who is forever fulminating on life's minor injustices, has made the transition from television to radio. The traffic usually goes m the opposite direction so it was inter esting to see how David Renwicks radio adaptation, fea turing the ...

Published: Thursday 26 January 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1030 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: radio review 

Radio Review: It's a thin line between lust, love and hate

... It's a thin line between lust, love and hate BY MOIRA PETTY I've nursed a passionate indifference to Georgette Heyer since early teens when certain factions were rustling the pages of her Regency romances under their desk lids. You could have lobbed almost anything else my way, from Thomas Hardy to The Story of 0, but never these drippy dramas of costumed courtship. R4 listeners of a ...

Published: Thursday 09 February 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1008 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: radio review 

Radio Review: Cartland romance with a Tarantino touch

... Cartland romance with a Tarantino touch BY MOIRA PETTY Wally K Daly is best known for his comedy scripts but I think he removed his tongue from his cheek before he sat down to adapt Barbara Cartland's Enchanting EvH (BBC Pebble Mill for R4, Monday, February 13) for He clearly thought it best to go with the flow, a breathy yet pedestrian narrative involving a hero, (Timothy Bentinck) who ...

Published: Thursday 23 February 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 615 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: radio review 

LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT REVIEW: Ann Hampton Callaway

... Ann Hampton Callaway Pizza on the Park Welcome to my world, says singer/pianist Ann Hampton Callaway and who could say no? This is probably the best female cabaret artist I have ever seen at Pizza on the Park and one who holds the audience in the palm of her hand. Jokingly dismissing any claim she's any to relative to Cab (of Minnie the Moocher fame), Callaway is a performer who is unlikely ...

Published: Thursday 02 March 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 329 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: radio review 

Radio Review: West Coast twangs produce the unlikeliest Romans of all

... West Coast twangs produce the unlikeliest Romans of all By Moira Petty But soft, who goes there? With their American West Coast twangs and Thunderbird puppet inflections, it could only have been Hollywood's finest at play in Julius Caesar (BBC co-production with LA Theatre Works for R3, Sunday, February 26). The cast list was a roll call of voices you had heard on numerous TV movies oddly ...

Published: Thursday 09 March 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 832 | Page: Page 27 | 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: Sartre's Hell could be the Northern Line

... Sartre's Hell could be the Northern Line BY MOIRA PETTY Listening to Michael Earley's impeccable production of No Way Out (R3. Sunday, March 12) brought back a recent news story. In the play, here living up to its reputation as Jean-Paul Sartre's finest drama, Garcin, one of the trio embalmed in a living hell cinctly describes their dilemma: Hell is other people. Transport Minister ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 689 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: radio review 

RADIO REVIEW: Losing the way with characters a few tabs short of a full trip

... Losing the way with characters a few tabs short of a full trip BY MOIRA PETTY At times it sounded as if Timothy Leary had had a hand in the writing of Phyllis Nagy's play The Strip (BBC Radio North for R4, Monday, March 27). But most of the characters were a few tabs short of a full trip, especially the Ku Klux Klan terrorist Lester (Christopher Fairbanks) who had hardly evolved from the ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 870 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: radio review 

Radio Review: Dramatic pictures that touch the heart to its very depth

... Dramatic pictures that touch the heart to its very depth BY MOIRA PETTY Radio is the most intimate of mediums but it is only rarely that a broadcast play can touch the heart to its very depths while gripping the intellect. Such a drama is Martin Lynch 's Pictures of Tomorrow (BBC Northern Ireland for R3. Sunday, April 9) which, under the direction of Michael Quinn, has made a triumphant ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 937 | Page: Page 30 | 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: Opening up all the old wounds

... Opening up all the old wounds BY MOIRA PETTY Television's VE Day coverage caught the national mood of unconfined joy, even if it was tempered with snatches of solemn remembrance. It was left to radio, as ever, to probe beneath the flag-waving surface with a series of special sions wnicn closed tne gap between 1945 and 1995 but opened up the scars. Best of the dramas was Nick Stafford's The ...

Published: Thursday 18 May 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 956 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: radio review