{"id":1718,"date":"2006-11-06T20:15:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/11\/how_to_lose_fri\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T20:15:28","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T20:15:28","slug":"how_to_lose_fri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/how_to_lose_fri\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Lose Friends and Alienate People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mention radio dramas very often here, and I should really. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is based on the book by Toby Young relating his experiences working as a journalist in America &#8211; in particular for a spell spent at Vanity Fair.<br \/>\nIn this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/aod\/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4\/afternoonplay_fri\">radio version<\/a> (the link works until Friday), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginradio.co.uk\/djs_shows\/shows\/al_murray\/\">Virgin Radio&#8217;s<\/a> Al Murray plays Young and what a dislikeable man he is. There really is very little redeeming about someone so shallow. Mind you, you don&#8217;t care a great deal for anybody in this play.<br \/>\nHaving said that, I can&#8217;t say that I didn&#8217;t enjoy listening to this story. While most of the characters are crass, you can take a certain enjoyment in hearing them struggle through their situations. A couple of the American accents were a little off, but nothing too distracting.<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t read the book this play is based on, and have no intention of doing so. I&#8217;m sure he has in some minor way redeemed himself by his story&#8217;s end, but is that enough?<br \/>\nPS If anyone can get me a copy of part 3 of Radio 4&#8217;s Classic Serial &#8211; The Cairo Trilogy &#8211; I&#8217;d be very grateful. I missed it on the radio and can&#8217;t now stream it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mention radio dramas very often here, and I should really. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is based on the book by Toby Young relating his experiences working as a journalist in America &#8211; in particular for a spell spent at Vanity Fair. In this radio version (the link works until Friday), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}