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... the right sort of atmospheric voice might have better been employed. Frederic Raphael's story Concerto Grossman, read by John Rowe (R3; Monday August 30 was a lesson in how much can be achieved in a short (20 minutes) reading. It was about innate inequality ...
... the madcap spiral of an argument about the whereabouts of an alley, long since disappeared from the London street map. The row, in the Wagtail pub in Wapping led to a riot and siege. The fiery debate broke out again in the ensuing court case and the young ...
... 00 years there must have been many a backstage punch-up but the only mention of the snarls behind the grease paint was the row between visiting American star Charlie Gracie and Dorothy Squires over who should top the mid-fifties variety bill. I bet I ...
... humour often evoked Evelyn Waugh. When one of the men sculed aimlessly, another remarked: There is quite a lot to be said for rowing on the spot It exercises the rower and entertains the steersman.' Perhaps my favourite episode was the restocking of the boat's ...
... lesson to any others so inclined and Peter Jeffery's stem narrator duly delivered his account as if from the pulpit. Wild (John Rowe) was like a Costa del Sol criminal of the early 18th Century. Instead of deep tan and gold chains he wore a silver waistcoat ...
... the feud between two architects vying for the glory of creating a great cathedral's dome. The older man, Brunelleschi (John Rowe) was honourable, kind and only flawed as any human is. His rival, one of the cheekiest upstarts since Henry IV, Ghiberti, was ...
... II. Samarrtha Bond play ing the purposeful but tragic Duchess of Devonshire. Robert Glenister as the villainous Scrope. John Rowe as the cool and self-serving banker Hambro and Peter Kenny as Susan's son who surveyed his father's head on a spike and remarked: ...
... silence. When my tape arrived completely blank I tried to outflank the author: per haps I was intended to contribute like a front row audience member at a fringe event. Finally in pos session of the correct tape, I found it to be a melancholy elec- I tronic ...
... Francis hit emotional peaks as the discomfited writer, with Peter England as the young boy, Penny Downie as the mother and John Rowe as a somnolent narrator. Light relief came in the form of two humorous drama series, both directed with a light touch by David ...
... Jun in John Fletcher's absorbing play DeadHne (R4, Thursday. October 16). Ordered out to the Old China by his editor (John Rowe) a vista of rural making-do and ancient superstitions opened up. The deadline of the title was both the journalistic one and ...
... Stephens) was deposited in 1910. Unhappiness was implied in the tense exchanges between the dictato rial factory owner (John Rowe) and his fragile wife, Isabelte (Sophie Ward), but initially we saw the family from Stephen's focus. The attraction between ...
... her complicity, Alice too had a part to play in the illicit love. You felt as if you were the startled spectator of a real row, played out in real time. Voices were raised with frightening visciousness, or dropped to such depths that you had to reach ...