 |
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
News
|
|||
|
News
|
Dateline: 15th June, 2007
Stoppard Radio Season Sir Tom Stoppard is to be celebrated across BBC Radio with a season of his work on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7.
This includes the radio debut of his most recent play, Rock 'N' Roll, which has been specially adapted by Stoppard with a new final scene.
The season also features new Stoppard adaptations of Arcadia, The Fifteen Minute Hamlet and Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, and listeners are given another chance to hear some of the acclaimed playwright's best radio productions.
Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead will also be the subject of a Night Waves: Landmarks programme on Radio 3, in which a panel of cultural figures re-evaluates one of his most respected works.
Radio 4 launches the Stoppard season with Albert's Bridge – first produced by BBC Radio Drama in 1967 – it has been described as Stoppard's finest radio play. Originally broadcast by BBC World Service, this 1988 production stars Paul Copley as Albert and features a cameo performance by Norman Bird.
Radio 4 will also broadcast a new adaptation of Arcadia, staring Jason Watkins as Bernard, Nicola Redmond as Hannah and Jack Laskey as Septimus, and The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, with John Dougall as Hamlet.
Radio 3's Drama On 3 broadcasts Rock 'N' Roll and Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead.
The cast of Rock 'N' Roll includes Bill Paterson as Max, Daniel Evans as Jan, Penny Downie as Eleanor, Amanda Root as Esme and Ron Cook as Nigel. And in Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, Rosencrantz is played by Danny Webb, Guildenstern by Andrew Lincoln and Player is played by Desmond Barrit.
Radio 3's Night Waves: Landmarks will be examining Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, 40 years after this unique play made Tom Stoppard's name at the age of 29.
BBC 7 will be broadcasting In The Native State, originally broadcast in 1991, with a cast that includes Peggy Ashcroft and Felicity Kendal; a 1978 adaptation of The Dissolution Of Dominic Boot with Derek Fowlds and Maria Aitken; and a 1989 re-edit of the 1970 production of Where Are They Now? featuring Timothy West. Broadcasts
Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
|
||
|
|
