May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I have been aware of Spring Awakening for a number of years now. I knew it was to do with young people, teenagers – long before the term ‘teenager’ was used in regular parlance to describe a person in their adolescence. That mysterious and perplexing period of one’s life where the evolution of one’s sexual…
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I do love listening to BBC Radio dramas, book readings, etc. They do them so well. I recently listened to another Dostoevsky adaptation – that of The Brothers Karamazov – also equally well done. I’ve listened to three of the episodes of The Idiot so far, and will listen to the final one tonight. I’m…
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Today – the third and final part of the BBC Radio dramatisation of Charles Kingsley’s novel, The Water Babies.
I’m still regularly checking out BBC Radio for drama. Radio plays and book readings, etc. Earlier in the week, I listened to this on…well, what is now BBC Sounds app (I’m still using the iPlayer radio app at the moment). “Burning Both Ends: When Oliver Reed Met Keith Moon”. Originally broadcast in 2011, it had…
I brushed upon this series when I posted about Jim’s post about The Leopard abridged audio adaptation on BBC Radio 4. I’ve listened to this series since its first episode. It’s amazing – but this week’s episode was beyond magnificent. It was just beautiful, the story of Ivy, Oscar and Arthur. Amazing storytelling…amazing scripts…wonderful acting….
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