... Fishing drama is a prize catch BY MOIRA PETTY The Wire, Radio 3's series of new plays by controversial writers, came up trumps with Richard Bean's Unsinkable (R3, Saturday, December 2), a gritty drama of the hard lives of Hull trawlermen and their families in the sixties. It made the cheesy efforts of Hollywood's fishermen epic, The Perfect Storm, look tawdry by comparison. Unsinkable may ...

... Drama to top the year's best BY MOIRA PETTY There have been few dramas this year as engaging as James Friel's dramatisation of Iris Murdoch's dark novel of human frailties, A Falrty Honourable Defeat (Catherine Bailey productions for R3, Sunday, December 10). me source maienai was sat isfying of course Murdoch's tale of the malign influence of Julius King, an Eastern European intel lectual ...