Tagged with: Adaptation
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Charles Dickens on the BBC
Jeremy Mortimer
Producer
Charles Dickens by Mathew Brady, US National Archives In the run-up to the bicentenary of Dickens's birth in February 2012, BBC Radio and BBC TV will be doing the master-storyteller proud, with new productions of four of the novels, and a whole host of other programming, starting with Pen...
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Life and Fate: Download, keep and listen later
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
Life and Fate: How long have I got to download all the episodes? All the episodes of Radio 4 adaptation of the epic Life and Fate are available to download until this Sunday when the first episode expires (NB: The expiry dates on the podcast page page are wrong - you need to deduct 14 days fr...
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To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal: BBC Radio 4 Extra's Book at Beachtime
Tom McNeal
Editor's note: Radio 4 Extra have been running a season of readings for the summer, Book at Beachtime. Each of the books in the series has been adapted in five parts and is broadcast on 4 Extra Monday to Friday at 2.30pm and is then available to listen online for seven days afterwards. This week...
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The History of Titus Groan: Radio 4 Classic Serial
Jeremy Mortimer
Producer
Brian Sibley is a bit of a legend in radio. Presenter (Radio 4 arts programme Kaleidoscope and the World Service arts magazine Meridian), contributor and playwright, he paired up with writer Michael Bakewell on the classic dramatisation of Lord of the Rings, he did the complete Narnia series, an...
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Book at Beachtime
Lucy Collingwood and Gemma Jenkins
Editor's introduction: For the next four weeks Radio 4 Extra's running a season of "gripping, escapist summer reading... twisted family drama, sweeping romance and, above all, great story-telling by best-selling authors old, new and to come..." I asked the producers, Lucy Collingwood (LC) and Ge...
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Bringing Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate with Kenneth Branagh to Radio 4
Alison Hindell
Editor's note: It's been known for a while that Radio 4 were adapting Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate, a great passion of Radio 4's former controller, to run over one week. It's been announced today that Kenneth Branagh will be playing the central role of Viktor. Producing the Radio 4 dramati...
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The Silver Sword comes to Radio 4 Extra
Jane Serraillier
[L to R] Barry Letts as Joseph and Frazer Hines as Jan in the 1957 BBC serialisation of The Silver Sword The first time I saw my father's book The Silver Sword being transferred to another medium was in 1957. I was 7, and Dad took me and my older sister Helen up to Shepherd's Bush, where a b...
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Adapting Balzac for the Friday Play
Adrian Penketh
Editor's note: Adrian Penketh is an actor and playwright. He's adapted a novel by Honoré de Balzac for The Friday Play - SB. In the introductory note to my first copy of The Wild Ass's Skin (La Peau de Chagrin), the word 'allegorical' was used in the first paragraph. It's a welcome word for a w...
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Robin Brooks on dramatising Robert Graves for radio
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Robin Brooks dramatised 'I, Claudius' for BBC Radio 4. Here, he writes about the pleasures of adapting Graves for radio. His post begins with a clip from the current episode - SB As material for dramatisation, one of the best things about 'I, Claudius' is that it starts very well and then get...
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Producing and directing Our Mutual Friend
Jessica Dromgoole
Editor, Home Front
Editor's note: the second instalment of our series about this year's big Christmas adaptation, Our Mutual Friend, is by producer/director Jessica Dromgoole: 5 May 2009. Behold London! Behold Oxford Circus tube station! Behold Broadcasting House! Behold 60a! The studio is primed for nine days of...
