{"id":1962,"date":"2007-06-14T18:19:51","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T18:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/06\/stoppard_on_the\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T18:19:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T18:19:51","slug":"stoppard_on_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/stoppard_on_the\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoppard on the Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC finally announced today what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestage.co.uk\/news\/newsstory.php\/17174\/radio-3s-stoppard-season-to-focus-on\">The Stage<\/a> had already <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/002069.html\">told us<\/a> &#8211; there is to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/pressreleases\/stories\/2007\/06_june\/14\/stoppard.shtml\">Stoppard season<\/a> on BBC Radio this summer.<br \/>\nThe headline piece is the radio debut of Stoppard&#8217;s most recent work, Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll, which is shortly to transfer to Broadway.<br \/>\nI was hoping for a repeat of Radio 3&#8217;s 1993 original cast recording of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherwell.oxon.sch.uk\/arcadia\/outline0.htm\">Arcadia<\/a> starring Bill Nighy, Felicity Kendall and Rufus Sewell. But instead we&#8217;re getting a new production of the play on Radio 4. There are also new productions of The Fifteen Minute Hamlet and Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s also a repeat of the 1988 production of Albert&#8217;s Bridge, and repeats of a 1991 production of In The Native State, a 1978 adaptation of The Dissolution of Dominic Boot and a &#8220;1989 re-edit of the 1970 production&#8221; of Where Are They Now?<br \/>\nIt all begins two weeks tomorrow with Albert&#8217;s Bridge followed by Arcadia the next day running a nice and lengthy two hours and fifteen minutes (a good forty five minutes longer than any normal Radio 4 play).<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC finally announced today what The Stage had already told us &#8211; there is to be a Stoppard season on BBC Radio this summer. The headline piece is the radio debut of Stoppard&#8217;s most recent work, Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll, which is shortly to transfer to Broadway. I was hoping for a repeat of Radio [&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\/1962"}],"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=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}