... at large in the teeming city. He introduced the author's voice in revealing comments by a narrator (Russell Dixon). As the slick salesman Drouet (John Guerrasio) encircled Carrie (Eve Best), and got ready to close the deal that would put her in his ...

... and yang in the equation. Enter Yvan, the much- scorned stationery salesman, in a disastrous attempt at plac- ation. Simon Russell Beale played the storm-tossed buffoon like one of Shakespeare's fools but without their latent wisdom. Richard II (R3, Sunday ...

... job, than in the strutting of the higher orders. Bristow's world was beautifully realised in Neil Cargill's produc tion with John Whitehall's jazzy music giving a jaunty slant to the daily slog. But what lifted it from the slapstick humour of the clerk ...

... November 7). Dog walker and goth Emma (Nicola Bamfield) nursed a passion for a client who looked like her favourite film actor (John Lloyd Fillingham). Emma read dogs like a book but misread all the signals put out by her fantasy figure. The result was a joyous ...

... sweetly full of puzzlement as Alice, and Joanna Wake was an imperious Red Queen. With Ken Campbell as Humpty Dumpty and John Bird and John Fortune as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, what more could you ask? RADIO REVIEW ...