This was one of those lucky radio listens. Working late one night I had no access to either my ipod or iphone (shock horror) or my iTunes (shock horror probe) so I was forced to browse BBC7 listen again. Happily I chose Beast and managed to get no work done for the next 40 minutes… […]
Stars Alfred Molina, Michael York and Terri Garr, directed by Martin Jarvis – interested? Well you should be. The real stars? Rosalind Ayres and Hugh Whitmore for a superb performance in a great play. Lying and deceit are at the heart of this drama. I can’t really call it a cold war thriller because it […]
Of all the many programmes I have listened to courtesy of radioarchive (and of course BBC7) the crimes and thrillers have been particularly enjoyable. Merrison and Williams (later Sachs) make a peerless Holmes and Watson, Carmichael the perfect Wimsey, Moffat a pin sharp Poirot and June Whitfield my favourite Miss Marple and let us not […]
For me MacMillan is Peter Cook. His devastating impersonation in Beyond the Fringe in indelibly printed on my mind. What else do I think of? Suez, ‘Never had it so good’ and a certain Christine Keeler (the famous photo taken at a certain Mr Cooks Establishment Club). Probably not the most balanced view but then […]
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