Tag: radio drama

A King’s Speech

A King’s Speech

by Mark Burgess (BBC Radio 4, 2009)

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A short radio play — not bad but superseded a year later by the film — detailing the relationship between speech therapist Lionel Logue and the most famous stutterer of his day, King George VI. Some of the conversations seem rather contrived towards exposition.

 

 

Torchwood: The Dead Line

Torchwood: The Dead Line

by Phil Ford (BBC, 2009)

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This full-cast radio drama is more scenario- than action-based, yet the premise is quite neat and the recording evinces a subtlety not always heard in audio adventures. Moreover, Gareth David-Lloyd is afforded time and story space for a beautifully delivered, character-defining monologue.

 

 

Torchwood: Lost Souls

Torchwood: Lost Souls

by Joseph Lidster (BBC, 2008)

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Having been written and broadcast to coincide with the switching on of the Large Hadron Collider, this radio drama in retrospect seems over-focussed on that aspect of the script. Likewise the Torchwood team’s lingering trauma subsequent to the second series’ harrowing finale.

 

 

Torchwood: Asylum

Torchwood: Asylum

by Anita Sullivan (BBC, 2009)

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Broadcast between series two and three, this full-cast radio drama sees the Torchwood team at its peak. When a troubled teenage girl falls through the Cardiff Rift, her memories suppressed, her plight brings out both Gwen’s (superbly played) empathy and Jack’s suspicion.

 

 

Good Omens

Good Omens

by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

radio dramatisation by Dirk Maggs (BBC Worldwide, 2014)

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Dirk Maggs has adapted Pratchett and Gaiman’s comedic novel of the apocalypse with apposite exuberance, yet for all the well-pitched sound design and the cast’s astute voice work, this zany and enjoyable dramatisation does perforce forego the original book’s drollery of prose.