1antimuzak
Sunday 15th November 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:20 (1 hour and 50 minutes long)
An Evening with Angela Carter.
Vampirella and Come Unto These Yellow Sands, by Angela Carter. These two iconic radio plays, first produced in the 1970s, are now given brand new productions. Introduced by Fiona Shaw as Angela Carter. Vampirella - A young Englishman, travelling by bicycle through Transylvania, finds himself at the mercy of a `lovely lady vampire" and her governess. Come Unto These Yellow Sands - Carter's hallucinatory documentary drama about the murderous Victorian painter, Richard Dadd.
Director: Robin Brooks
Starring: Jessica Raine, Anton Lesser, Oliver Chris, Doon Mackichan, Kevin McMonagle, William Gidney
Time: 19:30 to 21:20 (1 hour and 50 minutes long)
An Evening with Angela Carter.
Vampirella and Come Unto These Yellow Sands, by Angela Carter. These two iconic radio plays, first produced in the 1970s, are now given brand new productions. Introduced by Fiona Shaw as Angela Carter. Vampirella - A young Englishman, travelling by bicycle through Transylvania, finds himself at the mercy of a `lovely lady vampire" and her governess. Come Unto These Yellow Sands - Carter's hallucinatory documentary drama about the murderous Victorian painter, Richard Dadd.
Director: Robin Brooks
Starring: Jessica Raine, Anton Lesser, Oliver Chris, Doon Mackichan, Kevin McMonagle, William Gidney
2antimuzak
Sunday 13th December 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Joel MacCormack, Jack Farthing, Finn den Hertog and Daisy Edgar-Jones star in Goethe's story of a young artist at odds with society and his turbulent love affair. Dramatised by Hattie Naylor and introduced by Dr Charlotte Lee, University of Cambridge.
Director: Emma Harding
Starring: Joel MacCormack, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jack Farthing, Finn den Hertog, Stefan Adegbola, Celia Appiah
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Joel MacCormack, Jack Farthing, Finn den Hertog and Daisy Edgar-Jones star in Goethe's story of a young artist at odds with society and his turbulent love affair. Dramatised by Hattie Naylor and introduced by Dr Charlotte Lee, University of Cambridge.
Director: Emma Harding
Starring: Joel MacCormack, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jack Farthing, Finn den Hertog, Stefan Adegbola, Celia Appiah
3antimuzak
Sunday 31st January 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:10 (1 hour and 40 minutes long)
The Brummie Iliad.
By Roderick Smith. This high-octane verse-dramatisation of Homer's epic poem tells the story of the Trojan War from the death of Patroclus to Achilles' terrible revenge and its tragic aftermath. With a cast of Brummie voices, who perfectly capture the essence of the ancient oral tradition and bring fresh life to the original. The Birmingham accent is not normally associated with the classical world's epic poetry, but its hard-edged, cynical and wistful qualities turn out to be a perfect vehicle for a story of blood-thirsty warriors, long-suffering women and meddling Gods. And with music drawn from Birmingham's own Heavy Metal Rock Gods, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest.
Director: Fiona McAlpine
Starring: Roderick Smith, John Light, Kevin McNally, Annette Badland, Nicolas Tennant, Joe Dixon
Time: 19:30 to 21:10 (1 hour and 40 minutes long)
The Brummie Iliad.
By Roderick Smith. This high-octane verse-dramatisation of Homer's epic poem tells the story of the Trojan War from the death of Patroclus to Achilles' terrible revenge and its tragic aftermath. With a cast of Brummie voices, who perfectly capture the essence of the ancient oral tradition and bring fresh life to the original. The Birmingham accent is not normally associated with the classical world's epic poetry, but its hard-edged, cynical and wistful qualities turn out to be a perfect vehicle for a story of blood-thirsty warriors, long-suffering women and meddling Gods. And with music drawn from Birmingham's own Heavy Metal Rock Gods, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest.
Director: Fiona McAlpine
Starring: Roderick Smith, John Light, Kevin McNally, Annette Badland, Nicolas Tennant, Joe Dixon
4antimuzak
Sunday 25th April 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Bea meets Aaron. He's intelligent, handsome, makes her laugh and, most importantly, has a high rating on his genetic profile. What's not to like? Char has two degrees and is on the brink of landing her dream job but her rating threatens it all. In a ratist world where health, wealth and happiness depend on a single blood test, dictating everything from bank loans to dating prospects, phlebotomy reigns supreme. So how far will people go to beat the system? Ella Road's debut play is a powerfully provocative vision of a dystopian future, questioning the value we place on one another, whether knowledge really is power, and if love truly can conquer all. It is brought to Radio 3 following two triumphant runs at London's Hampstead Theatre.
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Bea meets Aaron. He's intelligent, handsome, makes her laugh and, most importantly, has a high rating on his genetic profile. What's not to like? Char has two degrees and is on the brink of landing her dream job but her rating threatens it all. In a ratist world where health, wealth and happiness depend on a single blood test, dictating everything from bank loans to dating prospects, phlebotomy reigns supreme. So how far will people go to beat the system? Ella Road's debut play is a powerfully provocative vision of a dystopian future, questioning the value we place on one another, whether knowledge really is power, and if love truly can conquer all. It is brought to Radio 3 following two triumphant runs at London's Hampstead Theatre.
5antimuzak
Sunday 9th May 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Nell Leyshon's play inspired by Cecil Sharp's efforts to gather as many folk songs as he could before they were lost in the new industrialised and literate music world of the 1900s. Louie Hooper lives with her sister on the Somerset Levels, and knows over 300 folk songs by heart. Sharp, who is down from London and staying in the village, overhears one of the songs and immediately recognises its importance and is determined to gather as many songs as he can. Starring Simon Russell Beale and Amanda Lawrence.
Director: Susan Roberts
Starring: Amanda Lawrence, Simon Russell Beale, Amanda Wilkin, Stuart McLoughlin, Nell Leyshon
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Nell Leyshon's play inspired by Cecil Sharp's efforts to gather as many folk songs as he could before they were lost in the new industrialised and literate music world of the 1900s. Louie Hooper lives with her sister on the Somerset Levels, and knows over 300 folk songs by heart. Sharp, who is down from London and staying in the village, overhears one of the songs and immediately recognises its importance and is determined to gather as many songs as he can. Starring Simon Russell Beale and Amanda Lawrence.
Director: Susan Roberts
Starring: Amanda Lawrence, Simon Russell Beale, Amanda Wilkin, Stuart McLoughlin, Nell Leyshon
6antimuzak
Sunday 13th June 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:05 (1 hour and 35 minutes long)
Radio premiere of Susan Glaspell's 1921 play exploring nationalism, the erosion of fundamental American rights and freedom of speech. Madeline, the grandchild of of a pioneering American family, faces a moral dilemma when two fellow students are arrested at a college protest against British colonial rule in India and threatened with deportation. Starring Samantha Dakin, Lorelei King and Felix Fejevary. Adapted for radio by Samina Baig and introduced by Laura Rattray, Reader in American Studies at the University of Glasgow.
Director: Tracey Neale
Starring: Lorelei King, Nathan Osgood, Samantha Dakin, Clive Hayward, Stephen Critchlow, Colin Stinton
Time: 19:30 to 21:05 (1 hour and 35 minutes long)
Radio premiere of Susan Glaspell's 1921 play exploring nationalism, the erosion of fundamental American rights and freedom of speech. Madeline, the grandchild of of a pioneering American family, faces a moral dilemma when two fellow students are arrested at a college protest against British colonial rule in India and threatened with deportation. Starring Samantha Dakin, Lorelei King and Felix Fejevary. Adapted for radio by Samina Baig and introduced by Laura Rattray, Reader in American Studies at the University of Glasgow.
Director: Tracey Neale
Starring: Lorelei King, Nathan Osgood, Samantha Dakin, Clive Hayward, Stephen Critchlow, Colin Stinton
7antimuzak
Sunday 20th June 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Often referred to as the French Hamlet, Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset is one of the great classics of the French repertoire. Written soon after the July revolution of 1830, when King Charles X of France was deposed in favour of a constitutional monarchy, the play scrutinises the strength of republican sentiments in the face of despotic leadership and the challenge of violent overthrow. Dan Rebellato, leading radio dramatist, has written his own version of this striking French classic. An exciting sound world created by award-winning sound designer Eloise Whitmore brings out the intimacy of the fevered discussions about political strategy and moral choices in an immoral world. Florence,1537. Lorenzo is a young man from a good family, but he has joined the court of the Medici as an advisor and he is fully participating in their libertine excesses. His family, politically opposed to the Duke, are disgusted by him. But in reality, Lorenzo has infiltrated the court with the specific aim of assassinating the Duke - however, now he does not know if he can. He has spent so much time pretending to be corrupt, he does not know who he really is. 'I wore vice like a garment,' he declares, 'but now it has become my skin'. When his brother is murdered and the Duke demands that Lorenzo bring him his own young sister Louisa as his next mistress, it stirs him to action. Even though he no longer believes anything will change, he murders the Duke. As the city erupts, Lorenzo escapes to Venice. Unsure what to do, unsure if his actions will change anything, he makes an existential decision. The plays ends with the status quo maintained, as a new Duke is crowned, and Lorenzo steps out into the open of the Rialto and to certain death.
(Repeat)
Starring: Tom Hughes, Ashley Zhangazha, Tanya Moodie, Nadia Albina, Toby Jones, Fenella Woolgar
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Often referred to as the French Hamlet, Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset is one of the great classics of the French repertoire. Written soon after the July revolution of 1830, when King Charles X of France was deposed in favour of a constitutional monarchy, the play scrutinises the strength of republican sentiments in the face of despotic leadership and the challenge of violent overthrow. Dan Rebellato, leading radio dramatist, has written his own version of this striking French classic. An exciting sound world created by award-winning sound designer Eloise Whitmore brings out the intimacy of the fevered discussions about political strategy and moral choices in an immoral world. Florence,1537. Lorenzo is a young man from a good family, but he has joined the court of the Medici as an advisor and he is fully participating in their libertine excesses. His family, politically opposed to the Duke, are disgusted by him. But in reality, Lorenzo has infiltrated the court with the specific aim of assassinating the Duke - however, now he does not know if he can. He has spent so much time pretending to be corrupt, he does not know who he really is. 'I wore vice like a garment,' he declares, 'but now it has become my skin'. When his brother is murdered and the Duke demands that Lorenzo bring him his own young sister Louisa as his next mistress, it stirs him to action. Even though he no longer believes anything will change, he murders the Duke. As the city erupts, Lorenzo escapes to Venice. Unsure what to do, unsure if his actions will change anything, he makes an existential decision. The plays ends with the status quo maintained, as a new Duke is crowned, and Lorenzo steps out into the open of the Rialto and to certain death.
(Repeat)
Starring: Tom Hughes, Ashley Zhangazha, Tanya Moodie, Nadia Albina, Toby Jones, Fenella Woolgar
8antimuzak
Sunday 19th September 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Doctor Faustus
A man sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for 24 years of knowledge, power and pleasure. Emma Harding's adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's tragedy, starring John Heffernan, Pearl Mackie, Frances Tomelty and Tim McMullan. Music composed and directed by Joseph Howard, and performed by the Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments.
Director: Emma Harding
Starring: John Heffernan, Pearl Mackie, Frances Tomelty, Rafferty Railton, Tim McMullan, Simon Ludders
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Doctor Faustus
A man sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for 24 years of knowledge, power and pleasure. Emma Harding's adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's tragedy, starring John Heffernan, Pearl Mackie, Frances Tomelty and Tim McMullan. Music composed and directed by Joseph Howard, and performed by the Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments.
Director: Emma Harding
Starring: John Heffernan, Pearl Mackie, Frances Tomelty, Rafferty Railton, Tim McMullan, Simon Ludders
9antimuzak
Sunday 7th November 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:30 (2 hours long)
The Tempest
Drama on 3 presents a new, environmentally-inflected production of The Tempest to coincide with COP26 in Glasgow.
In The Tempest, Shakespeare's explores the relationship between humanity, the environment and our connection with nature. A Scottish cast is led by Ian McDiarmid as Prospero in this play of magic, romance and revenge, situated within the context of our current global climate crisis. Audiences are transported to Prospero's island of chaos and disorder; the island is 'full of noises' and the play’s cataclysmic opening storm is created out of news items about the climate emergency.
As Shakespeare’s most musical play, original Scottish music composed by Pippa Murphy interweaves throughout - to ethereal and magical effect, - enhanced by Ariel’s songs realised in binaural sound.
Cast:
Prospero ..... Ian McDiarmid
Caliban ..... Joseph Arkley
Sebastian ..... Maggie Bain
Gonzalo ..... Maureen Beattie
Stefano ..... Sandy Grierson
Antonio/Boatswain ..... John MacKay
Alonso ..... Forbes Masson
Ferdinand ..... Noof Ousellam
Trinculo ..... Owen Whitelaw
Miranda ..... Helena Wilson
Ariel ..... Madeleine Worrall
and Julia Daramy-Williams as Ceres
Sound Designer Eloise Whitmore
Composer Pippa Murphy
Producer/Director Gaynor Macfarlane
Time: 19:30 to 21:30 (2 hours long)
The Tempest
Drama on 3 presents a new, environmentally-inflected production of The Tempest to coincide with COP26 in Glasgow.
In The Tempest, Shakespeare's explores the relationship between humanity, the environment and our connection with nature. A Scottish cast is led by Ian McDiarmid as Prospero in this play of magic, romance and revenge, situated within the context of our current global climate crisis. Audiences are transported to Prospero's island of chaos and disorder; the island is 'full of noises' and the play’s cataclysmic opening storm is created out of news items about the climate emergency.
As Shakespeare’s most musical play, original Scottish music composed by Pippa Murphy interweaves throughout - to ethereal and magical effect, - enhanced by Ariel’s songs realised in binaural sound.
Cast:
Prospero ..... Ian McDiarmid
Caliban ..... Joseph Arkley
Sebastian ..... Maggie Bain
Gonzalo ..... Maureen Beattie
Stefano ..... Sandy Grierson
Antonio/Boatswain ..... John MacKay
Alonso ..... Forbes Masson
Ferdinand ..... Noof Ousellam
Trinculo ..... Owen Whitelaw
Miranda ..... Helena Wilson
Ariel ..... Madeleine Worrall
and Julia Daramy-Williams as Ceres
Sound Designer Eloise Whitmore
Composer Pippa Murphy
Producer/Director Gaynor Macfarlane
10antimuzak
Sunday 14th November 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
The Cherry Orchard
Drama on 3
Chekhov's celebrated stage play is given a new version by writer/composer duo, Katherine Tozer and John Chambers. Ranyevskya returns to the family estate after five years in Paris to face seemingly insurmountable debts. Local businessman Lopakhin is keen to offer her a way out, but there'll be a price to pay.
Ranyevskya ..... Emma Fielding
Lopakhin ..... Neil Dudgeon
Anya ..... Lucy Doyle
Varya ..... Joan Iyiola
Gayev ..... Dominic Coleman
Peter ..... Nicholas Prasad
Pishchik ..... Tony Turner
Charlotte ..... Alexandra Constantinidi
Yepikhodov ..... Matthew Wilson
Dunyasha ..... Saffron Coomber
Yasha ..... Liam Lau Fernandez
Firs ..... Sean Murray
The Tramp ..... Lewis Bray
Music composed by John Chambers
Directed by Toby Swift
Katherine Tozer and John Chambers work as writer and composer respectively for Palimpsest, the innovative multi-media theatre company. Palimpsest have created bespoke work for Leighton House, Dr Johnson's House and William Morris's Red House.
Actor and writer Katherine Tozer has acted for the RSC, the Almeida, the Donmar and the Young Vic, in the West End, nationally and internationally in new work by Churchill, Brenton and Wertenbaker, in roles ranging from Phaedra to Blanche du Bois, for which she was nominated for a TMA award. She founded Palimpsest in 2013.
John Chambers is a composer and sound designer. He studied at Trinity College of Music, winning the John Halford, Daryl Runswick, and Chappell composition prizes. For over a decade he has created music for theatre, including writer/director Steven Berkoff's premiere production of Oedipus. Composition highlights include a fanfare for Her Majesty the Queen (Royal Observatory, Greenwich 2007), a fanfare for the Olympic Torch Relay (Trafalgar Square 2008) and High Flight for Baritone Voice and String Quartet (performed by the Finzi Quartet).
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
The Cherry Orchard
Drama on 3
Chekhov's celebrated stage play is given a new version by writer/composer duo, Katherine Tozer and John Chambers. Ranyevskya returns to the family estate after five years in Paris to face seemingly insurmountable debts. Local businessman Lopakhin is keen to offer her a way out, but there'll be a price to pay.
Ranyevskya ..... Emma Fielding
Lopakhin ..... Neil Dudgeon
Anya ..... Lucy Doyle
Varya ..... Joan Iyiola
Gayev ..... Dominic Coleman
Peter ..... Nicholas Prasad
Pishchik ..... Tony Turner
Charlotte ..... Alexandra Constantinidi
Yepikhodov ..... Matthew Wilson
Dunyasha ..... Saffron Coomber
Yasha ..... Liam Lau Fernandez
Firs ..... Sean Murray
The Tramp ..... Lewis Bray
Music composed by John Chambers
Directed by Toby Swift
Katherine Tozer and John Chambers work as writer and composer respectively for Palimpsest, the innovative multi-media theatre company. Palimpsest have created bespoke work for Leighton House, Dr Johnson's House and William Morris's Red House.
Actor and writer Katherine Tozer has acted for the RSC, the Almeida, the Donmar and the Young Vic, in the West End, nationally and internationally in new work by Churchill, Brenton and Wertenbaker, in roles ranging from Phaedra to Blanche du Bois, for which she was nominated for a TMA award. She founded Palimpsest in 2013.
John Chambers is a composer and sound designer. He studied at Trinity College of Music, winning the John Halford, Daryl Runswick, and Chappell composition prizes. For over a decade he has created music for theatre, including writer/director Steven Berkoff's premiere production of Oedipus. Composition highlights include a fanfare for Her Majesty the Queen (Royal Observatory, Greenwich 2007), a fanfare for the Olympic Torch Relay (Trafalgar Square 2008) and High Flight for Baritone Voice and String Quartet (performed by the Finzi Quartet).
11antimuzak
Sunday 21st November 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 20:55 (1 hour and 25 minutes long)
Norwegian Jon Fosse, winner of the prestigious International Ibsen Prize in 2010, is one of the world's most performed playwrights. His breakthrough came with Namnet (The Name), written in 1995, and it remains one of his most widely produced plays. It tells the story of a pregnant young woman's return to the claustrophobia of family home with the reluctant father-to-be in tow. Translated by Gregory Motton.
Time: 19:30 to 20:55 (1 hour and 25 minutes long)
Norwegian Jon Fosse, winner of the prestigious International Ibsen Prize in 2010, is one of the world's most performed playwrights. His breakthrough came with Namnet (The Name), written in 1995, and it remains one of his most widely produced plays. It tells the story of a pregnant young woman's return to the claustrophobia of family home with the reluctant father-to-be in tow. Translated by Gregory Motton.
12antimuzak
DRAMA: Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio 3 (703)
Date: Sunday 28th November 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:30 (2 hours long)
The School For Scandal
The play is introduced by Ian Hislop, Editor of Private Eye. Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis direct an outstanding company in this brand-new production of Sheridan’s surprisingly up-to-date comedy. Written by the 27-year-old genius in 1777. Scandalmonger Lady Sneerwell controls a nest of gossipy vipers: Backbite, Crabtree, Snake, and two-faced Mrs Candour. Young Lady Teazle, bored by her elderly husband Sir Peter, has been lured into the circle too. What’s the latest? Which of the young Surface brothers is the good guy, and which the hypocrite? Rakish Charles or admired Joseph? Their Uncle Oliver puts them both to the test. Who deserves to win feisty Maria? Glittering performances. Wonderfully gossipy music specially composed by A-Mnemonic. Loads of wicked laughs in this sparkling new production. Can scandal ever die?
‘The School for Scandal’ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
CAST:
Sir Oliver Surface ….. Hugh Bonneville
Mrs Candour ….. Joanna Lumley
Crabtree ….. Roger Allam
Sir Benjamin Backbite ….. Mark Gatiss
Lady Sneerwell ….. Lisa Dillon
Lady Teazle ….. Susannah Fielding
Sir Peter Teazle ….. Martin Jarvis
Master Rowley ….. Nigel Anthony
Joseph Surface ….. Joe Bannister
Charles Surface ….. George Blagden
Maria ….. Amy Morgan
Snake ….. Ifan Meredith
Mr Moses ….. Jon Glover
Trip ….. Kieran Hodgson
Careless/William ….. Simon de Deney
Sir Harry ….. Richard Sisson
Lucy/Jessie ….. Daisy Hydon
Violinist: Francesca Barritt
Specially composed music: A-Mnemonic
Sound Design: Mark Holden
Directed by Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis
On: BBC Radio 3 (703)
Date: Sunday 28th November 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:30 (2 hours long)
The School For Scandal
The play is introduced by Ian Hislop, Editor of Private Eye. Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis direct an outstanding company in this brand-new production of Sheridan’s surprisingly up-to-date comedy. Written by the 27-year-old genius in 1777. Scandalmonger Lady Sneerwell controls a nest of gossipy vipers: Backbite, Crabtree, Snake, and two-faced Mrs Candour. Young Lady Teazle, bored by her elderly husband Sir Peter, has been lured into the circle too. What’s the latest? Which of the young Surface brothers is the good guy, and which the hypocrite? Rakish Charles or admired Joseph? Their Uncle Oliver puts them both to the test. Who deserves to win feisty Maria? Glittering performances. Wonderfully gossipy music specially composed by A-Mnemonic. Loads of wicked laughs in this sparkling new production. Can scandal ever die?
‘The School for Scandal’ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
CAST:
Sir Oliver Surface ….. Hugh Bonneville
Mrs Candour ….. Joanna Lumley
Crabtree ….. Roger Allam
Sir Benjamin Backbite ….. Mark Gatiss
Lady Sneerwell ….. Lisa Dillon
Lady Teazle ….. Susannah Fielding
Sir Peter Teazle ….. Martin Jarvis
Master Rowley ….. Nigel Anthony
Joseph Surface ….. Joe Bannister
Charles Surface ….. George Blagden
Maria ….. Amy Morgan
Snake ….. Ifan Meredith
Mr Moses ….. Jon Glover
Trip ….. Kieran Hodgson
Careless/William ….. Simon de Deney
Sir Harry ….. Richard Sisson
Lucy/Jessie ….. Daisy Hydon
Violinist: Francesca Barritt
Specially composed music: A-Mnemonic
Sound Design: Mark Holden
Directed by Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis
13antimuzak
Sunday 12th December 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Don Juan
by Lord Byron
Adapted by Robin Brooks
Byron’s masterpiece, Don Juan, depicts young Juan’s amazing adventures as an innocent abroad, moving swiftly from the bedroom of a lady of Seville to a love island in the Cyclades, to the harem of the sultan, in a headlong whirl of sexual intrigue, romance and slavery, making a rollercoaster entertainment of comedy, tragedy and everything between.
Byron reverses the role of Juan, and instead of the heartless rake, we have a hapless young innocent, more seduced than seducer. The business is often romantic, sometimes highly erotic, sometimes comic, and sometimes – in a quite uniquely Byronic mix - all three.
The story opens with young Juan’s seduction, at the hands of a “chaste” married lady. After the high farce of their exposure, Juan undergoes exile and shipwreck, until he is washed up on a Grecian Isle, where he is nursed by the lovely young nymph Haidée, until the two of them fall passionately in love. We see this idyll destroyed by the return of Haidée’s father, the pirate king Lambro, who sells Juan into slavery. In the slave market at Constantinople, we enjoy Juan’s discomfiture as he is led off by the eunuch in the service of a mystery buyer, forced to dress in women’s clothes, and delivered in secret to sate the appetite of a spoilt and predatory Sultana, now the only man in the harem.
Byron narrates the story of his poem in his own voice, so we frame the poem with material taken from his life and letters, to illuminate the events and passions of his life which lie behind the joys and sorrows of his comic epic.
Adapted for Drama on 3 by Robin Brooks who also introduces the drama.
Byron ..... Edward Bennett
Mephistopheles ..... Julian Bleach
Don Juan ..... Matthew Tennyson
Donna Julia ..... Pippa Nixon
Haidée ..... Dolores Carbonari
Gulbeyaz ..... Keziah Joseph
Donna Inez ..... Kate Paul
Don Alfonso / Johnson / Fletcher ..... Nicholas Murchie
Lambro / Sultan / Crony ..... Mark Spalding
Baba, a Eunuch ..... Cyril Nri
Antonia / Lolah ..... Bettrys Jones
Zoe ..... Harmony Rose Bremner
Mother of the Maids ..... Barbara Dryhurst
Katinka ..... Alexandra Ewing
Dudu ..... Kate Morgan Jones
Pedro / Crony /Diner/ Slaver ..... Charlie Layburn
Margarita ..... Eleanor Tata
Director / Producer Fiona McAlpine
Sound Design Alisdair McGregor
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Don Juan
by Lord Byron
Adapted by Robin Brooks
Byron’s masterpiece, Don Juan, depicts young Juan’s amazing adventures as an innocent abroad, moving swiftly from the bedroom of a lady of Seville to a love island in the Cyclades, to the harem of the sultan, in a headlong whirl of sexual intrigue, romance and slavery, making a rollercoaster entertainment of comedy, tragedy and everything between.
Byron reverses the role of Juan, and instead of the heartless rake, we have a hapless young innocent, more seduced than seducer. The business is often romantic, sometimes highly erotic, sometimes comic, and sometimes – in a quite uniquely Byronic mix - all three.
The story opens with young Juan’s seduction, at the hands of a “chaste” married lady. After the high farce of their exposure, Juan undergoes exile and shipwreck, until he is washed up on a Grecian Isle, where he is nursed by the lovely young nymph Haidée, until the two of them fall passionately in love. We see this idyll destroyed by the return of Haidée’s father, the pirate king Lambro, who sells Juan into slavery. In the slave market at Constantinople, we enjoy Juan’s discomfiture as he is led off by the eunuch in the service of a mystery buyer, forced to dress in women’s clothes, and delivered in secret to sate the appetite of a spoilt and predatory Sultana, now the only man in the harem.
Byron narrates the story of his poem in his own voice, so we frame the poem with material taken from his life and letters, to illuminate the events and passions of his life which lie behind the joys and sorrows of his comic epic.
Adapted for Drama on 3 by Robin Brooks who also introduces the drama.
Byron ..... Edward Bennett
Mephistopheles ..... Julian Bleach
Don Juan ..... Matthew Tennyson
Donna Julia ..... Pippa Nixon
Haidée ..... Dolores Carbonari
Gulbeyaz ..... Keziah Joseph
Donna Inez ..... Kate Paul
Don Alfonso / Johnson / Fletcher ..... Nicholas Murchie
Lambro / Sultan / Crony ..... Mark Spalding
Baba, a Eunuch ..... Cyril Nri
Antonia / Lolah ..... Bettrys Jones
Zoe ..... Harmony Rose Bremner
Mother of the Maids ..... Barbara Dryhurst
Katinka ..... Alexandra Ewing
Dudu ..... Kate Morgan Jones
Pedro / Crony /Diner/ Slaver ..... Charlie Layburn
Margarita ..... Eleanor Tata
Director / Producer Fiona McAlpine
Sound Design Alisdair McGregor
14antimuzak
Sunday 2nd January 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:30 (2 hours long)
The Mother
Drama on 3
The Mother, by Bertolt Brecht, with original musical score by Hanns Eisler.
Translated by Mark Ravenhill, from a literal translation by Marc Funda, with song lyrics translated by Steve Trafford.
When Pelagea Vlassova's son Pavel becomes involved in political activity her radical action to protect him from imprisonment transforms her into the figurehead for a revolutionary movement. Brecht and Eisler's iconic drama set in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Vlassova.....Maxine Peake
Pavel.....Andy Coxon
Anton and Sigorski.....Esh Alladi
Ivan.....Nico Mirallegro
Mascha.....Elen Rhys
Andrei and Luschin.....Rupert Hill
Nikolai and Inspector.....William Ash
Vassil and Smilgin.....Kevin Harvey
Karpov and the Landlady.....Christine Bottomley
The Niece.....Nadia Emam
All other parts were played by the company.
Songs by the Chorus of Revolutionary Workers were performed by Kantos Chamber Choir
Directed by Nadia Molinari
Conducted by HK Gruber
Time: 19:30 to 21:30 (2 hours long)
The Mother
Drama on 3
The Mother, by Bertolt Brecht, with original musical score by Hanns Eisler.
Translated by Mark Ravenhill, from a literal translation by Marc Funda, with song lyrics translated by Steve Trafford.
When Pelagea Vlassova's son Pavel becomes involved in political activity her radical action to protect him from imprisonment transforms her into the figurehead for a revolutionary movement. Brecht and Eisler's iconic drama set in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Vlassova.....Maxine Peake
Pavel.....Andy Coxon
Anton and Sigorski.....Esh Alladi
Ivan.....Nico Mirallegro
Mascha.....Elen Rhys
Andrei and Luschin.....Rupert Hill
Nikolai and Inspector.....William Ash
Vassil and Smilgin.....Kevin Harvey
Karpov and the Landlady.....Christine Bottomley
The Niece.....Nadia Emam
All other parts were played by the company.
Songs by the Chorus of Revolutionary Workers were performed by Kantos Chamber Choir
Directed by Nadia Molinari
Conducted by HK Gruber
15antimuzak
Sunday 16th January 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
The Miser
For Molière’s 400th anniversary, Toby Jones, Holli Dempsey and Mathew Baynton star in Barunka O’Shaughnessy’s rumbustious new version of his play of secrets, lies and obsessive greed.
Harpagon, the Miser…..Toby Jones
Élise, his daughter…..Holli Dempsey
Cléante, his son….. François Pandolfo
Valère …..Mathew Baynton
La Flèche …..Keiron Self
Frosine…..Cecilia Noble
Marianne…..Grace Cooper Milton
Jacques…..Don Gilet
Madame Simon…..Jasmine Hyde
Police Officer…..Michael Begley
Anselme…..Neil McCaul
Soprano…..Sarah Gabriel
Harpischordist…..William Vann
Musical arrangements by Joe Atkins
Sound design by Nigel Lewis
Directed by Emma Harding
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
The Miser
For Molière’s 400th anniversary, Toby Jones, Holli Dempsey and Mathew Baynton star in Barunka O’Shaughnessy’s rumbustious new version of his play of secrets, lies and obsessive greed.
Harpagon, the Miser…..Toby Jones
Élise, his daughter…..Holli Dempsey
Cléante, his son….. François Pandolfo
Valère …..Mathew Baynton
La Flèche …..Keiron Self
Frosine…..Cecilia Noble
Marianne…..Grace Cooper Milton
Jacques…..Don Gilet
Madame Simon…..Jasmine Hyde
Police Officer…..Michael Begley
Anselme…..Neil McCaul
Soprano…..Sarah Gabriel
Harpischordist…..William Vann
Musical arrangements by Joe Atkins
Sound design by Nigel Lewis
Directed by Emma Harding
16antimuzak
Sunday 30th January 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:35 (2 hours and 5 minutes long)
Othello
Khalid Abdalla, Matthew Needham and Cassie Layton star in Shakespeare's tragedy, staged in an imagined near future, in which a power-hungry Turkish president attempts an attack on Cyprus. The western forces rush to Cyprus's defence, under the command of the fearless General Othello. But can an Arab-born Christian convert ever be truly accepted by the people he serves?
Adapted and directed for radio by Emma Harding.
Introduction by Dr Islam Issa, Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University
Othello.....Khalid Abdalla
Iago.....Matthew Needham
Desdemona.....Cassie Layton
Cassio.....Max Bennett
Brabantio.....Neil McCaul
Roderigo.....Clive Hayward
Duke of Venice.....Jessica Turner
Montano.....Peter Polycarpou
Emilia.....Bettrys Jones
Lodovico.....Ian Conningham
Bianca.....Heather Craney
All other parts played by Sargon Yelda and Hasan Dixon.
Time: 19:30 to 21:35 (2 hours and 5 minutes long)
Othello
Khalid Abdalla, Matthew Needham and Cassie Layton star in Shakespeare's tragedy, staged in an imagined near future, in which a power-hungry Turkish president attempts an attack on Cyprus. The western forces rush to Cyprus's defence, under the command of the fearless General Othello. But can an Arab-born Christian convert ever be truly accepted by the people he serves?
Adapted and directed for radio by Emma Harding.
Introduction by Dr Islam Issa, Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University
Othello.....Khalid Abdalla
Iago.....Matthew Needham
Desdemona.....Cassie Layton
Cassio.....Max Bennett
Brabantio.....Neil McCaul
Roderigo.....Clive Hayward
Duke of Venice.....Jessica Turner
Montano.....Peter Polycarpou
Emilia.....Bettrys Jones
Lodovico.....Ian Conningham
Bianca.....Heather Craney
All other parts played by Sargon Yelda and Hasan Dixon.
17antimuzak
Sunday 12th June 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:15 (1 hour and 45 minutes long)
Zadie Smith with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Zadie Smith is one of Britain’s most notable and influential living novelists. Her first work, White Teeth, completed while the author was still a student, became an instant hit when it was published in 2000. Soon enough, she came to define what it was to live in Britain – and particularly London – at the turn of the new millennium. Music has always coursed through Zadie Smith’s works. At university she worked as a jazz singer, while her 2016 novel Swing Time, long listed for the Booker Prize, explores her love of music and dance.
Zadie joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra on the stage of the Barbican Hall for a highly acclaimed entertaining and thought-provoking evening. The multi-award-winning author reads extracts from a selection of her own writing - essays, short-stories, and novels - and even sings! Intermixed with music reflecting the readings by composers from Tchaikovsky to Gity Razaz.
Recorded at the Barbican on Friday 22nd April 2022
Music:
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Mirlitons – The Nutcracker - Act II
Harold Arlen (arr Simon Nathan): Stormy Weather
Adolphus Hailstork: Epitaph for a Man who Dreamed
Gity Razaz: Mother
Leonard Bernstein: Overture - Candide
Frank Zappa: Outrage at Valdez
Rogers & Hart (arr Simon Nathan): I Could Write a Book
Readings from:
Swing Time
NW
Contempt as a Virus
Joy
The Lazy River
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ben Gernon (conductor)
Time: 19:30 to 21:15 (1 hour and 45 minutes long)
Zadie Smith with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Zadie Smith is one of Britain’s most notable and influential living novelists. Her first work, White Teeth, completed while the author was still a student, became an instant hit when it was published in 2000. Soon enough, she came to define what it was to live in Britain – and particularly London – at the turn of the new millennium. Music has always coursed through Zadie Smith’s works. At university she worked as a jazz singer, while her 2016 novel Swing Time, long listed for the Booker Prize, explores her love of music and dance.
Zadie joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra on the stage of the Barbican Hall for a highly acclaimed entertaining and thought-provoking evening. The multi-award-winning author reads extracts from a selection of her own writing - essays, short-stories, and novels - and even sings! Intermixed with music reflecting the readings by composers from Tchaikovsky to Gity Razaz.
Recorded at the Barbican on Friday 22nd April 2022
Music:
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Mirlitons – The Nutcracker - Act II
Harold Arlen (arr Simon Nathan): Stormy Weather
Adolphus Hailstork: Epitaph for a Man who Dreamed
Gity Razaz: Mother
Leonard Bernstein: Overture - Candide
Frank Zappa: Outrage at Valdez
Rogers & Hart (arr Simon Nathan): I Could Write a Book
Readings from:
Swing Time
NW
Contempt as a Virus
Joy
The Lazy River
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ben Gernon (conductor)
18antimuzak
Sunday 19th June 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 20:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
A phantasmagorical journey through the most personal short stories of French writer and bon-viveur Guy de Maupassant, adapted and translated by Simon Scardifield. Telling his tales to an invited guest becomes a matter of life and death for the author as he struggles to save his sanity. Will the power of his imagination be enough to pull him back from the brink? Featuring adaptations of A Strange Night Out, Mouche, Laid to Rest, Cockcrow and Le Horla, this is about the untold consequences of living fast and hard enough to keep the demons at bay. Elliot Cowan stars.
Director: Gemma Jenkins
Starring: Elliot Cowan, Holli Dempsey, Colin Ryan, Alexandra Hannant, Gunnar Cauthery, Ruth Everett
Time: 19:30 to 20:45 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)
A phantasmagorical journey through the most personal short stories of French writer and bon-viveur Guy de Maupassant, adapted and translated by Simon Scardifield. Telling his tales to an invited guest becomes a matter of life and death for the author as he struggles to save his sanity. Will the power of his imagination be enough to pull him back from the brink? Featuring adaptations of A Strange Night Out, Mouche, Laid to Rest, Cockcrow and Le Horla, this is about the untold consequences of living fast and hard enough to keep the demons at bay. Elliot Cowan stars.
Director: Gemma Jenkins
Starring: Elliot Cowan, Holli Dempsey, Colin Ryan, Alexandra Hannant, Gunnar Cauthery, Ruth Everett
19antimuzak
Sunday 10th July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 20:30 (1 hour long)
A performance of TS Eliot's The Waste Land to mark its centenary, prefaced by an exploration of the poem with Lyndall Gordon, Mark Ford, Seamus Perry and Stephen Connor. It is possible to trace different characters, different voices, through the poem and this is the approach taken for this production, which is faithful to the text, recorded word for word as written, relishing the collection of voices within it. Starring Maggie Steed, Adrian Edmondson, David Haig and David Calder.
Director: Caroline Raphael
Starring: Maggie Steed, Adrian Edmondson, Esme Scarborough, Paul Ready, Tilly Vosburgh, David Haig
Time: 19:30 to 20:30 (1 hour long)
A performance of TS Eliot's The Waste Land to mark its centenary, prefaced by an exploration of the poem with Lyndall Gordon, Mark Ford, Seamus Perry and Stephen Connor. It is possible to trace different characters, different voices, through the poem and this is the approach taken for this production, which is faithful to the text, recorded word for word as written, relishing the collection of voices within it. Starring Maggie Steed, Adrian Edmondson, David Haig and David Calder.
Director: Caroline Raphael
Starring: Maggie Steed, Adrian Edmondson, Esme Scarborough, Paul Ready, Tilly Vosburgh, David Haig
20antimuzak
The Waste Land in 2022 — a job only Radio 3 could take on
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21antimuzak
Sunday 18th September 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Nell Leyshon's play inspired by Cecil Sharp's efforts to gather as many folk songs as he could before they were lost in the new industrialised and literate music world of the 1900s. Louie Hooper lives with her sister on the Somerset Levels, and knows over 300 folk songs by heart. Sharp, who is down from London and staying in the village, overhears one of the songs and immediately recognises its importance and is determined to gather as many songs as he can. Starring Simon Russell Beale and Amanda Lawrence.
Time: 20:00 to 21:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Nell Leyshon's play inspired by Cecil Sharp's efforts to gather as many folk songs as he could before they were lost in the new industrialised and literate music world of the 1900s. Louie Hooper lives with her sister on the Somerset Levels, and knows over 300 folk songs by heart. Sharp, who is down from London and staying in the village, overhears one of the songs and immediately recognises its importance and is determined to gather as many songs as he can. Starring Simon Russell Beale and Amanda Lawrence.
22antimuzak
Sunday 2nd October 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Sizwe Banzi is Dead – a devised play by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona.
This stark, funny and moving play, is set in 1970s South Africa at the height of apartheid.
When a man arrives in a photographic studio to have his image taken for his passbook, the characters discover what it means to lose your passbook, in a country where your passbook is your identity. The chilling reasons of how and why the man needed a new photograph are revealed. A thought-provoking, captivating drama about oppression, racism and identity. Recorded in front of an audience at Patrick Studio, Birmingham Hippodrome as part of the Contains Strong Language spoken word festival. With a specially recorded introduction by Athol Fugard in South Africa.
Styles ........... Tonderai Monyevu
Man/Robert Zwelinzima/Sizwe Banzi .......Sibusiso Mamba
Buntu ....... Adetomiwa Edun
Music composed and played by Xhosa Cole and Azizi Cole
Production Co-ordinators - Vicky Moseley and Pippa Day
Sound team, Simon Highfield, Sharon Hughes and John Benton
Producer/Director Pauline Harris
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Sizwe Banzi is Dead – a devised play by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona.
This stark, funny and moving play, is set in 1970s South Africa at the height of apartheid.
When a man arrives in a photographic studio to have his image taken for his passbook, the characters discover what it means to lose your passbook, in a country where your passbook is your identity. The chilling reasons of how and why the man needed a new photograph are revealed. A thought-provoking, captivating drama about oppression, racism and identity. Recorded in front of an audience at Patrick Studio, Birmingham Hippodrome as part of the Contains Strong Language spoken word festival. With a specially recorded introduction by Athol Fugard in South Africa.
Styles ........... Tonderai Monyevu
Man/Robert Zwelinzima/Sizwe Banzi .......Sibusiso Mamba
Buntu ....... Adetomiwa Edun
Music composed and played by Xhosa Cole and Azizi Cole
Production Co-ordinators - Vicky Moseley and Pippa Day
Sound team, Simon Highfield, Sharon Hughes and John Benton
Producer/Director Pauline Harris
23antimuzak
Sunday 16th October 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
People Everywhere Will Sing.
People Everywhere Will Sing, by Sarah Wooley. It's 1951. After the death of his wife, and approaching eighty, Ralph Vaughan Williams launches himself into a new life, determined to live it on his own terms. Frustrated by the traditional image that's been thrust upon him, when he's asked to compose something for the Queen's coronation he decides on a radical plan. A play about Vaughan Williams's relationship with his reputation, with his loyal lover, Ursula, and with the royal event that would usher in the modern age. Starring Oliver Ford Davies.
Director: Abigail le Fleming
Starring: Oliver Ford Davies, Fenella Woolgar, Ewan Bailey, Robert Daws, Georgie Lomax Ford, Rebecca Crankshaw
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
People Everywhere Will Sing.
People Everywhere Will Sing, by Sarah Wooley. It's 1951. After the death of his wife, and approaching eighty, Ralph Vaughan Williams launches himself into a new life, determined to live it on his own terms. Frustrated by the traditional image that's been thrust upon him, when he's asked to compose something for the Queen's coronation he decides on a radical plan. A play about Vaughan Williams's relationship with his reputation, with his loyal lover, Ursula, and with the royal event that would usher in the modern age. Starring Oliver Ford Davies.
Director: Abigail le Fleming
Starring: Oliver Ford Davies, Fenella Woolgar, Ewan Bailey, Robert Daws, Georgie Lomax Ford, Rebecca Crankshaw
24antimuzak
Sunday 23rd October 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Ariel and Winter Trees.
Marking what would have been Sylvia Plath's 90th birthday, Ariel and Winter Trees is a vibrant journey through Plath's last collections of poetry. Eschewing academic analysis and autobiographical assumptions, it offers instead a sonic celebration of Plath's work through readings and testimonies by women artists, joined together by an immersive soundscape that allows the listener to truly experience the power and depth of Plath's words. Performed by Dame Siân Phillips, Indira Varma, and Eva Feiler with testimonies from authors/poets Lucy Caldwell, Sarah Corbett, Michèle Roberts and Chloé Savoie-Bernard. Includes Plath's unique radio-play Three Women in its first airing since it was written and broadcast for the BBC in August of 1962. The poems and radio play were written by Plath at the height of her creative powers, when she began to write for her words to be read out loud. Set within every day and other-earthly landscapes, Plath's poetic persona shatters its sense of self and picks up the pieces to examine who she is as a woman, mother, daughter, wife. But above all else, Plath's poems are an exploration of the range and depths of human emotion, with all its collisions and conflagrations. Indeed, throughout her anthologies, Plath's persona is pushed and pulled between different emotional forces. Forces which twist and reshape Plath's poetic voice from being that of a tranquil clairvoyant to a vengeful magician.
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Ariel and Winter Trees.
Marking what would have been Sylvia Plath's 90th birthday, Ariel and Winter Trees is a vibrant journey through Plath's last collections of poetry. Eschewing academic analysis and autobiographical assumptions, it offers instead a sonic celebration of Plath's work through readings and testimonies by women artists, joined together by an immersive soundscape that allows the listener to truly experience the power and depth of Plath's words. Performed by Dame Siân Phillips, Indira Varma, and Eva Feiler with testimonies from authors/poets Lucy Caldwell, Sarah Corbett, Michèle Roberts and Chloé Savoie-Bernard. Includes Plath's unique radio-play Three Women in its first airing since it was written and broadcast for the BBC in August of 1962. The poems and radio play were written by Plath at the height of her creative powers, when she began to write for her words to be read out loud. Set within every day and other-earthly landscapes, Plath's poetic persona shatters its sense of self and picks up the pieces to examine who she is as a woman, mother, daughter, wife. But above all else, Plath's poems are an exploration of the range and depths of human emotion, with all its collisions and conflagrations. Indeed, throughout her anthologies, Plath's persona is pushed and pulled between different emotional forces. Forces which twist and reshape Plath's poetic voice from being that of a tranquil clairvoyant to a vengeful magician.
25antimuzak
Sunday 30th October 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:45 to 21:05 (1 hour and 20 minutes long)
Beowulf Remixed
A radiophonic adaptation of the major poetic text – Beowulf – using the different BBC versions broadcast over the years, from the 1940s, including a Welsh language version, song, and a new commission by Patience Agbabi. Seamus Heaney's version pulsates its way through the entire poem, interconnecting the many different versions. To celebrate and mark the BBC's strong relationship with poetry throughout its 100-year history.
Beowulf is the foundational myth of English literature, a classic text that has been interpreted by writers, poets and radio and film-makers over and over again in the 100 years of the BBC's history. In this special remixed version, we pull together extracts from the various productions over the years, showing how this text has been variously interpreted in different decades.
It's one of the great universal stories - a hero who fights against the odds, finally arriving at a point where he must meet his destiny.
Sandy Grierson plays Beowulf in Seamus Heaney's translation, abridged by Professor Laura Ashe @ University of Oxford.
Actors featured in the archive include: Julian Glover in his own adaptation, Derek Jacobi, Timothy West, Frank Lincoln
Rhys Parri Jones, John A. Owen, Hazel Wyn Williams, John Castle, Anna Calder-Marshall, Harvey Hallsmith, Carleton Hobbs, presenter Michael Woods, Beowulf song composed and performed by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, poet Maria Dahvana Headley.
Production Co-ordinator - Pippa Day
Sound by Simon Highfield
Produced and directed by Pauline Harris
Time: 19:45 to 21:05 (1 hour and 20 minutes long)
Beowulf Remixed
A radiophonic adaptation of the major poetic text – Beowulf – using the different BBC versions broadcast over the years, from the 1940s, including a Welsh language version, song, and a new commission by Patience Agbabi. Seamus Heaney's version pulsates its way through the entire poem, interconnecting the many different versions. To celebrate and mark the BBC's strong relationship with poetry throughout its 100-year history.
Beowulf is the foundational myth of English literature, a classic text that has been interpreted by writers, poets and radio and film-makers over and over again in the 100 years of the BBC's history. In this special remixed version, we pull together extracts from the various productions over the years, showing how this text has been variously interpreted in different decades.
It's one of the great universal stories - a hero who fights against the odds, finally arriving at a point where he must meet his destiny.
Sandy Grierson plays Beowulf in Seamus Heaney's translation, abridged by Professor Laura Ashe @ University of Oxford.
Actors featured in the archive include: Julian Glover in his own adaptation, Derek Jacobi, Timothy West, Frank Lincoln
Rhys Parri Jones, John A. Owen, Hazel Wyn Williams, John Castle, Anna Calder-Marshall, Harvey Hallsmith, Carleton Hobbs, presenter Michael Woods, Beowulf song composed and performed by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, poet Maria Dahvana Headley.
Production Co-ordinator - Pippa Day
Sound by Simon Highfield
Produced and directed by Pauline Harris
26antimuzak
DRAMA: Drama on 3
On: BBC Radio 3 (703)
Date: Sunday 13th November 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Joel MacCormack, Jack Farthing, Finn den Hertog and Daisy Edgar-Jones star in Goethe's story of a young artist at odds with society and his turbulent love affair. Dramatised by Hattie Naylor and introduced by Dr Charlotte Lee, University of Cambridge.
CAST
Werther.....Joel MacCormack
Lotte.....Daisy Edgar-Jones
Albert.....Jack Farthing
Wilhelm.....Finn den Hertog
Hans.....Stefan Adegbola
Johanna.....Cecilia Appiah
Peter.....Joseph Ayre
Suzette.....Emma Handy
The Ambassador.....Roger Ringrose
Frau Muller.....Jane Whittenshaw
Louis.....Ian Dunnett Jnr
Servant Girl.....Charlotte East
Sound design by Caleb Knightley
Directed by Emma Harding
Produced by Marc Beeby
On: BBC Radio 3 (703)
Date: Sunday 13th November 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Joel MacCormack, Jack Farthing, Finn den Hertog and Daisy Edgar-Jones star in Goethe's story of a young artist at odds with society and his turbulent love affair. Dramatised by Hattie Naylor and introduced by Dr Charlotte Lee, University of Cambridge.
CAST
Werther.....Joel MacCormack
Lotte.....Daisy Edgar-Jones
Albert.....Jack Farthing
Wilhelm.....Finn den Hertog
Hans.....Stefan Adegbola
Johanna.....Cecilia Appiah
Peter.....Joseph Ayre
Suzette.....Emma Handy
The Ambassador.....Roger Ringrose
Frau Muller.....Jane Whittenshaw
Louis.....Ian Dunnett Jnr
Servant Girl.....Charlotte East
Sound design by Caleb Knightley
Directed by Emma Harding
Produced by Marc Beeby
27antimuzak
Sunday 27th November 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:10 (1 hour and 40 minutes long)
The Age of Anxiety
Four strangers meet in a New York bar on All Hallows Eve and embark on a fantastic journey. WH Auden’s extraordinary verse epic for four voices is dramatised by Robin Brooks.
Auden’s long poem The Age of Anxiety was written at the peak of his powers, and is claimed by many as his masterpiece. It contains passages of striking beauty, as powerful as anything he wrote. It is written in the form of a strange verse-drama: four characters, all single, lonely and adrift, spend an evening together, as Auden takes them on a fantastic voyage into memory and myth, in search of a way to solve the problems which have created this age of anxiety, the age in which we all now live.
AUDEN ..... Julian Bleach
QUANT ..... Jonjo O'Neill
MALIN ..... John Light
ROSETTA ..... Genevieve Gaunt
EMBLE ..... Luke Thallon
Sound Design by Jon Nicholls
Produced and Directed by Fiona McAlpine
Time: 19:30 to 21:10 (1 hour and 40 minutes long)
The Age of Anxiety
Four strangers meet in a New York bar on All Hallows Eve and embark on a fantastic journey. WH Auden’s extraordinary verse epic for four voices is dramatised by Robin Brooks.
Auden’s long poem The Age of Anxiety was written at the peak of his powers, and is claimed by many as his masterpiece. It contains passages of striking beauty, as powerful as anything he wrote. It is written in the form of a strange verse-drama: four characters, all single, lonely and adrift, spend an evening together, as Auden takes them on a fantastic voyage into memory and myth, in search of a way to solve the problems which have created this age of anxiety, the age in which we all now live.
AUDEN ..... Julian Bleach
QUANT ..... Jonjo O'Neill
MALIN ..... John Light
ROSETTA ..... Genevieve Gaunt
EMBLE ..... Luke Thallon
Sound Design by Jon Nicholls
Produced and Directed by Fiona McAlpine
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