... Moving child's eye view BY MOIRA PETTY Sometimes the Afternoon Play offers a piece, like Lulu (R4, Thursday, September 7), which is so funny, warm and original that it begs to be heard by audiences who aren't looking for an accompaniment to ironing or motoring at 2.15pm. Perhaps there is a case for a night-time repeat of daytime drama, like that of John Peel's Home Truths. What made Lulu ...

... No barriers to vintage drama BY MOIRA PETTY What is great about radio dramatisations of period pieces is that costumes and sets do not get in the way. You cannot go into a trance over an interesting curtain treatment--you have to concentrate on the voices and soon find yourself swept up in the subtext. Not that much of the motivation in Honore Balzac's Cousin Bette, the Poor Relation ...